What do a cork board, sticky notes, note cards, and an Apple style interface have in common? Travel planning of course.  Start-up DuffelUp.com is trying carve out their niche in the crowded online trip planning space by offering something a little different, an interface that is simple and familiar.  When you plan a trip with Duffel, you create a “Duffel” (presumably like a duffle bag) and collect things to do, accommodations, and...

It’s not altogether surprising to see more experience based travel sites popping up. Unlike the “all-in-one” travel sites, this segment still has a tremendous amount of room for growth. Enter on the scene, Kijubi.com, the experience marketplace. It took me a moment to realize that the name, as twodotohish as it is, is actually pronounced “Could you be”, hence the “Could you be… having fun right now”. I hear the collective...

With so much focus on technology and innovation, its nice to see a web company launch something as simple and effective as a good blog site.  Granted I can say its a simple technological solution because I know how these things work.  That said, the real work in launching something like the Uptake Blog Network involves a good strategy, a lot of grunt work, great writers, good content, and good relationships.  The result is an interconnected...

Cadabra Limited Product Description: Cadabra is creating a worldwide online travel agency specializing in experiential tour planning by combining its innovative software with a network of destination expert inbound tour operators. Cadabra’s Web-based technology allows consumers (or travel agents) to research, plan and book all aspects of complex multidestination touring type travel itineraries in one place including accommodation, activities,...

Part of the purpose of being at the PhoCusWright 2008 Conference was to get the word out about the travel innovations that were being demonstrated at the Travel Innovation Summit. To that end, I’ve finally been able to add the videos of the demonstrations to YouTube and gathered them together into a single playlist. Feel free to view, embed, link, comment and otherwise share the videos with others. For some of these innovators, the...