Online Travel Tools, Travel Widgets & Travel Softwares

Hi all,
Do you often surf the net online for your travel needs like travel deals and travel tour packages?? Now as everyone being hi-tech with growing technologies, media, people want to save more and more time utilizing the online world of internet. Today People don't have this much time to wait in queues for hours for their travel bookings. Now People simply surf the net to find out the best travel deals in one minute just on their finger tips.

There are a lot of the websites available who provide the travel deals and tour packages. Some also offer online software for the same. I too found a excellent website www.mytafri.com:[Best Online Travel Deals] which offers a Free Online Travel Tool named 'Tafri'

which brings all your chosen types of Best Travel Deals Online to you. This travel software keeps you informed about the International Travel Deals and tour packages that you select for, in you mail box, with lot more features like sharing these personalized deals and packages with your friends, relatives and family.

These Online Travel Tools like Tafri also offer various other facilities like finding the Air Flight Deals, Car Rental Deals, Last Minute Deals, Hotel Packages and Deals and lot more related to you Travel Needs through these small travel softwares. Its work doesn't end here, it also lets you to see and share the related pics and videos of the hotels and places from the deal providers (on availability from the deal providers).

I invite you people to share more tips and thoughts on such travel widgets and softwares here and also share more of these travel tools if you find to let others know about these and utilize these travel utilities to get benefited by them.

UPDATE: The owners of online Tafri tool are now offering this tool in a different way with the name 'BTB Communications Plateform' i.e. 'Beyond The Browser' communications platform which helps you engage your target audience by personalization of the overall communication. Read More.....

UPDATE: (11 - May - 08, 11:52 pm) A question just striked in my mind do every one is aware of this online travel tool thing? i think most of the people in the travel world won't be aware of online travel tools, so i just thought to explain a bit about these travel tools thingy. Travel Tools is basically a travel software which while connected to internet (or online, thats why these widgets are called online travel tools), it searches from the various travel websites on the net for the best travel deals of your choice, and then it compiles all the best travel deals available online and brings all of them to you without any efforts of yours, saving your valuable time. I hope a bit of concept for these online travel tools would have been clear to you., if still not ask me on the comment, will write more about these tools. :)



Cheers,
Kuntal Shukla

Best Hotel Deals, Hotel Packages and Hotels Reservation

Looking for hotel deals and booking a hotel in middle east, gulf in Arabian countries like Dubai, abu Dhabi, go through this... www.thegulfhotels.com go and reserve your hotel in minutes in gulf cities. This website quotes : “Searches

multiple hotel reservation

websites simultaneously to help you find the

lowest rates

instantly”

I will suggest, in Arab countries some of the best place to visit are Dubai (the shoppers paradise), also have multiple beautiful hotels to stay. The more places in terms of accommodation and hotel the 'Palm Jebel Ali Hotel' is the one worth to visit. and more updates coming soon...

For the deals of US and country hotels plz check out these best hotel deals in Expedia hot hotel deals.

What is Travel 3.0 & Travel 2.0 - on this Travel Blog

New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: What is Travel 3.0 ?

Hi guys 'm here again on this travel blog with another Travel 3.0 Post!!
You again check out more about this travel 2.0 and travel 3.0 thing including web 2.0 technology..!! I hope you will find it another interesting & informative one :-))

UPDATE: (01 - Jun - 08, 3:45 pm) TRAVEL 2.0 & TRAVEL 3.0 : The reason behind, my discussions of Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 on this blog, was the direct relation in web concepts with the travel websites nature & structure (i.e. their standards & improvements based on web2.0 & web3.)
[Please Refer -> for more on Web 2.0 & Web3.0]

Travel 2.0 describes the second wave of travel information Web sites. Web 2.0’s collaborative nature are many of what people call Travel 2.0 sites, They focus on shared, collaborator-authored information to feed the growing trend for free & independent travel and travelers’ preference for creating their own tailored itineraries. Adding an improved consumer UI using AJAX or Flash to a Travel 1.0 platform may change aspects of the application to be more engaging, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the software or tool is Travel 2.0 throughout its underlying code. A Travel 2.0 site is structured to allow users to easily contribute words and images, reviews and travelogues. Consequently those who visit a Travel 2.0 site can glean multiple insights about a destination, hotel, or other aspect of travel. This directly implements the Web 2.0 concept for the evolution of travel2.0 .

There are various examples of Travel 2.0 sites:
Trip Advisor, Tripmates, IgoUgo, Turn Here, Flickr Travel, Gusto, Travel the World Wiki, Hotel Chatter, Real Travel, Travelistic, YouTube Travel, WAYN, Where's Yours?, WikiTravel, and many more.

Travel 3.0 : Hold your breath for here comes the 3rd wave Travel 3.0 - riding high on the success of the Web 2.0 - Its is something more like you can have the cake and eat it too. But travel3.0 is as of now i know is more a buzz than a reality, infact I'm still wondering, does it, the Travel3.0 thing, have some substance? However, i feel travel 3.0 may emerge to be a bit advance & more convenient than that of travel2.0 . Travel 3.0 have more inclination towards commercial purpose. Travel 2.0 sites currently offer a seamless, directly integrated booking and transaction facility. And probably, Travel 3.0 sites will harness the proven capability of dynamic packaging to enrich buyer choice and so build sales, value and margin.

However, Enabling a Travel 3.0 site, with its rich content, choice and book-ability, requires close collaboration between the travel site, like-minded suppliers and a technology partner with the platform, capabilities, data structures and vision to pull it all together. so this conceptual things seems to be a bit far and may involved various risk factors if the wrong technology is selected.

Hope this topic on my travel blog is of a bit help to the people searching for Travel 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 things.


Cheers ~
Kuntal

Web2.0 Travel Tools -Web2.0: Too much of a good thing? - Or Not Yet Enough

Hey guys another blog discussion on Web2.0 thing. find the whether web2.0 is good enough or still something new in this technology is required ? check this out.. :-)

Giving you a brief here about web2.0 concept. the Web2.0 as well as Web3.0 concepts lay the base for the websites and tools that will have more user involvement & better user experience. Web 1.0 was the static, expert knowledge web. Web2.0 is the interactive, user knowledge web.

You can visit here-> for more on Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 Concepts, within my travel blog.

Web 2.0 Travel Tools: "Web2.0: Too much of a good thing?" - Or Not Yet Enough?
Web 2.0 Travel Tools: What is Travel 3.0?
and if you want to Know exactly what this Web2.0 thing is then -> see Web2.0 on Wikipedia.

Web2.0 travel tools are simply as you can now understand are the travel tools developed using the web 2.0 concept and evolving the travel 2.0 thing. Travel Tools help you being connected when you travel locally to work, to the grocery store, to the gym, as well as on business trips and family holidays.

Please Visit-> For more on Travel 2.0 & Travel 3.0 things, within this travel blog.


Cheers,
Kuntal

Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 Travel Tools: What is Travel 3.0

You can find information on what this web 2.0 thing is and more on such travel tools or travel softwares following the concept of web 2.0, also about the travel 3.0. Check it out guys, i found this one an interesting topic, for travel geeks ;-).

UPDATE: WHAT IS WEB2.0 : Web 2.0 is a perceived or proposed second generation of the web. This is were the web has evolved and improved over time and now offers better and more up to date services like blogs, wiki’s, communication tools, folksonomies, social networking sites etc. Obviously the user interaction or you can say user involvement has been a important factor in revolutionizing the world wide web. The Travel 3.0 is considered as the future of online travel, which, whereas i understand utilizes the Web 2.0 concept.

UPDATE: (02 - Jun - 08 : 00.05am)
For most of the online users today Web 2.0 has done a lot of good with Dynamic Packaging. Just think for a moment - if you would have to do things sitting in a place like booking air tickets on lowest fares, ensure that you have an advance Hotel Reservation(s) and a car bookings, pick up and drop included.

Web 3.0 : "Web 2.0 was very exploitative of user generated content. "Web 3.0" is engaging more professionals to create user-generated data/content communities by compensating them"


cheers,
Kuntal

Travel Blogs, Travel Sites and Travel Related Links

Hey friends here are some online travel deals related blogs, travel directories and travel sites i've found online on the net. Lots of travel related stuff is there, I'll try to keep posting links of more travel sites, directories and travel blogs here, i hope this will help gathering more travel information at one place ie on this blog. Check these out, i hope these will be useful for you:

• Travel Blogs

http://www.travelblog.org/
http://www.bootblog.org/

• Travel Web-Sites

http://www.realtravel.com/
http://www.fodors.com/

• Travel Directories:

http://travel.sulekha.com/
Air Travel Directory:



Enjoy Your Travel here,~ Kuntal