Articles tagged “guides”

Tour Operators

Tourists Opting for Private Tours in Lesser-Known Cities

In a shift away from traditional tourist hubs, private tour guides nurture small group experiences in less-popular cities to grow their business organically.

Tourists Opting for Private Tours in Lesser-Known Cities

News Blog

IDEAS: Dublin Airport Introduces Advice Guide for Senior Travelers

Dublin Airport has released a new advice guide to support senior travelers when preparing to visit the airport during the busy summer months.  Dublin Airport operator DAA, in partnership with Age Action, has created the free guide with the aim of alleviating travel anxieties for older passengers as they navigate through the airport. The guide…

Online Travel

Are Google Reviews Poised to Beat TripAdvisor at Its Own Game?

Google has fought and annoyed TripAdvisor and Yelp for years when it comes to user reviews. The search giant obviously has the scale to compete and is now putting new emphasis on its own user reviews, but it has to prove it has the focus to upend the review balance of power.

Are Google Reviews Poised to Beat TripAdvisor at Its Own Game?

Online Travel

Google’s New Travel App Is a Mashup of Guidebook and TripIt

As with anything Google does, you can expect Google Trips to be very much a work in progress that goes through numerous iterations before it becomes available to the public. But its beta release expands Google's footprint in the travel ecosystem especially since so many consumers begin their trip planning in the search engine and explore destinations with the Maps app.

Google’s New Travel App Is a Mashup of Guidebook and TripIt

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Takes New Steps Toward Offering the Ultimate Travel Guide App

The challenge for TripAdvisor is whether it will win by being an all-encompassing app or whether it is better to be more focused like Expedia's or HotelTonight's apps. In phasing out its City Guides app, TripAdvisor is putting itself in the comprehensive camp.

TripAdvisor Takes New Steps Toward Offering the Ultimate Travel Guide App

Tourism

Interview: Groupon’s Founder Is Trying to Reinvent the Audio City Tour

Due to the seamless user experience and interface, Detour truly delivers on the demand for authentic, local travel experiences and immersive educational travel. As with all of these creative attempts at tours: Do users actually care?

Interview: Groupon’s Founder Is Trying to Reinvent the Audio City Tour

Media and PR

Gogobot Raises $20 Million Series C Round Led by HomeAway

Gogobot is a small factor today in competing with category leader TripAdvisor on the reviews' front, but the HomeAway partnership will enable it to increase its profile on the back of HomeAway's global footprint.

Gogobot Raises $20 Million Series C Round Led by HomeAway

Tourism

How Two Legacy Tour Groups Source Local Guides

This is one travel segment still ripe for disruption. There is high demand for curated tours, but the process for sourcing and training local experts to lead them hasn't become any easier.

How Two Legacy Tour Groups Source Local Guides

Media and PR

Foursquare Releases New Logo Before Splitting Its Product in Half

Foursquare's making a big bet that users will check-in to the new experience, but it needed a big change to move forward.

Foursquare Releases New Logo Before Splitting Its Product in Half

Tourism

Skift Survey: Consumers Are Asking for Packages Beyond Packaged Travel

Overall, travelers today are looking to travel with friends and family and use local firms in the destination they’re going to.

Skift Survey: Consumers Are Asking for Packages Beyond Packaged Travel