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