Tripbase is still in its alpha stage but looks highly friendly and professional. The working is very simple. It has categorized and rated different places according to these criteria: Nightlife, Dining, Shopping, Nature and Attractions. You can request for recommendations by giving different points to the above mentioned criteria and bingo, several places are listed in moments. If I give maximum points for nightlife followed by minimum points for all other criteria, my list would be topped with Ibiza in Spain along with the average pricing information and different hangouts in the city.

Choose what is important for you and get your recommendations at the click on your mouse button. I haven’t seen any other website that is as simple and exhaustive as this one.

via Digg

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Tripbase: Tell us what you like, we will tell you where to travel

Using Yahoo! Travel, tourists can book flight tickets, hotels, cars and plan out their itinerary. The Travel Guides has a humongous list of 40,000 cities and 500,000 places with reviews, places to see etc; basically all the information that a traveler needs to know. A currency converter is available as well.

Yahoo lacks in the personalization department. It has integrated My Yahoo which helps them plan, check and track reservations, get alerts etc. But, it does not differentiate travelers based on the travel styles like camping, luxury, cultural, romantic etc.

Maybe things will change in the coming months; maybe they won’t. But for Yahoo to have the edge over others, they need to accomodate all the travelers’ needs. Understanding the customer is more important than displaying a plethora of items on its shelf.

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Yahoo! Travel Review

Second Life is a virtual world in 3D where residents buy land and build cities. This website started in 2003 and so far has seen close to 6 million users who have been actively contributing to the second world.

The registration is free and simple. You will be asked a few questions and have to choose a last name from a given list. The second world goes on and on as long as you wish to be in it. Here’s some extract from the website:

• From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you’ve explored a bit, perhaps you’ll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
• You’ll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents.
• The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar exchanges.

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Bored of this World; Try Second World

When you are going on a business travel, enter the city you are visiting and PairUp searches all your contacts in your destination city and it presents a list of contact before you. It can also pull up contacts in a specific conference or an event. In turn, you are asked to enter your contact details and other people who you trust.

It’s a great idea of a social networking website but if the same model is extended to other tourists, it could help tourists find new friends and kill boredom at their destination places.

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PairUp: Connecting Business Travelers

Trivop is the first ever video guide that features different hotels in France. The idea is to have video clips of many hotels around the globe. The website is taking its first steps and the video gallery looks bare. Website navigation is extremely easy and also has the aid of Google maps for locating hotels.

Trivop requests hotel managements to promote their hotels by uploading videos and providing necessary information that a tourist would be interested in a hotel. This website is in Beta stage.

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First Ever Video Guide for Hotels