Tourist WEB 2.0
For quite a long time I have been watching Western tourist Web 2.0 and today I will try to tell you what is happening in the niche, what are the trends and what is impressive and what is not.
Travel blogs
First, the tourist blog sites continue to breed like mushrooms. Key words “share” and “with friends”. You need to fumble experience, foto and video. Apparently we will live to see the time when each tourist will have a blog with an office startup, investing 3 million and developing in India. Face the stagnation of ideas. Catch especially not for anything, so go through the details.
- A pretty powerful “all-in-one portal.” I liked the hypothetical opportunity to filter the places and reports by parameters. For example, you can search for reports where the total travel budget is “no more than that”. Plus - built-in trip planner. Looking through the place - silk, added it, scored a date, picked up hotels, looked who else would go.
In addition to user-generated content, the structure of “places” is very richly worked out - starting with the country, ending with the village - everything has an article, everything is indicated on Google Maps, you can find nearby hotels.
- I liked the highlighted opportunity to search not only by places, but also by keywords. For example, museums, architecture, beaches. The second is the ability to rate places - for example, Moscow - 10 points, London 0. Accordingly, ratings of tourist popularity of destinations can be built. Third, get recommendations from the locals. Residents of New York in theory should go to this site and write articles that can be viewed in their city. This is stated, but I did not find it. The idea is also good. And fourth, uploading useful photos, videos and reports to the site is scoring points. 100 points = $ 1.
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Here is a bunch of "share your ...":
Find 10 differences.
I will designate two new and practically obligatory for all chips:
1 - now we share not only photo reports but also video. Almost obligatory attribute. Even on Lonelyplanet launched lonelyplanet.tv
2 - Travel Maps on Google Maps. It sometimes seems to me that google maps exist only to mark where they were on them.
And a slight hunch. I think the whole special functionality of travel blogs can easily migrate to the "civil" blog site. This idea is suggested to me by Facebook applications like “Where I've Been” - mark where you already were, where you live and where and when you are going, and “My travel photo map” (from the same Mytripbook) - post photos directly to google maps
In this review, I noted only those social networks that I did not know before. In addition to them, there are 3-4 more large sites of the old school. The niche is apparently quite densely populated.
Travel video
Smoothly continue the theme of video travel.
- this startup makes a bet that a person needs a video tour of the hotel. In my opinion a dubious idea. When choosing a hotel good photos and reviews is enough.
- tourist YouTube. The idea is very good, but ... if you take a good photo and write a story, many can, then shoot a good video, and even tell something - a few. therefore, watching shaky shots at an amateur camera is pretty tiring.
- and here the approach to the UGC is different: you first need to offer an idea, get approval, make a film, and then get the money. I did not check how it works, but the picture here is not bad.
In general, the video is a great idea and quite fresh, and the quality of the content should come.
It seems to me that budding video hosting on a niche is inevitable.
Search flight tickets and hotels that do not sell anything
Another fashionable theme is to find you a ticket (hotel) and redirect to the airline (hotel) website, without selling anything. Led by Kayak, these are really very useful services, especially in the light of the universal transition to an electronic ticket. I think about these services already know a lot, but I will bring them here to complete the picture:
Search for fellow travelers, friends
The general idea is to indicate the place where you live and indicate the place where you are going and when.
You will find people who a) - go there at this time, b) - live there. c) - travel there.
Then everything depends on you how the contacts will be made.
The PairUp network is focused on business users.
Personally, this niche seems to me, though useful, but not independent. This is me to the fact that business travelers, if they want to be much more successful to connect LinkedIn. And ordinary - Facebook with its extensions.
Audio guides
Very niche product, but very interesting and unusual:
Audio guides to places. This implies the download of these guides by users.
Photos from the "local"
A very unusual approach to sharing photos on google maps. Photos are not shared by travelers but ordinary people. It means that you can walk around the area, shoot and upload to the site. It can be anything, the only important thing is the presence of geo-referencing. Then it will be useful to someone on a journey, or simply informative.
Wikitravel
And here is what is very impressive and what the future is for, I think:
Of course, Wikitravel is not the freshest site, but the growing popularity is fascinating. Who did not know there are notorious blogs: extra.wikitravel.org, although for the time being in a rather poor state. But this is a period of growth.
According to the materials of work on venividi.ru
Travel blogs
First, the tourist blog sites continue to breed like mushrooms. Key words “share” and “with friends”. You need to fumble experience, foto and video. Apparently we will live to see the time when each tourist will have a blog with an office startup, investing 3 million and developing in India. Face the stagnation of ideas. Catch especially not for anything, so go through the details.
- A pretty powerful “all-in-one portal.” I liked the hypothetical opportunity to filter the places and reports by parameters. For example, you can search for reports where the total travel budget is “no more than that”. Plus - built-in trip planner. Looking through the place - silk, added it, scored a date, picked up hotels, looked who else would go.
In addition to user-generated content, the structure of “places” is very richly worked out - starting with the country, ending with the village - everything has an article, everything is indicated on Google Maps, you can find nearby hotels.
- I liked the highlighted opportunity to search not only by places, but also by keywords. For example, museums, architecture, beaches. The second is the ability to rate places - for example, Moscow - 10 points, London 0. Accordingly, ratings of tourist popularity of destinations can be built. Third, get recommendations from the locals. Residents of New York in theory should go to this site and write articles that can be viewed in their city. This is stated, but I did not find it. The idea is also good. And fourth, uploading useful photos, videos and reports to the site is scoring points. 100 points = $ 1.
')
Here is a bunch of "share your ...":
Find 10 differences.
I will designate two new and practically obligatory for all chips:
1 - now we share not only photo reports but also video. Almost obligatory attribute. Even on Lonelyplanet launched lonelyplanet.tv
2 - Travel Maps on Google Maps. It sometimes seems to me that google maps exist only to mark where they were on them.
And a slight hunch. I think the whole special functionality of travel blogs can easily migrate to the "civil" blog site. This idea is suggested to me by Facebook applications like “Where I've Been” - mark where you already were, where you live and where and when you are going, and “My travel photo map” (from the same Mytripbook) - post photos directly to google maps
In this review, I noted only those social networks that I did not know before. In addition to them, there are 3-4 more large sites of the old school. The niche is apparently quite densely populated.
Travel video
Smoothly continue the theme of video travel.
- this startup makes a bet that a person needs a video tour of the hotel. In my opinion a dubious idea. When choosing a hotel good photos and reviews is enough.
- tourist YouTube. The idea is very good, but ... if you take a good photo and write a story, many can, then shoot a good video, and even tell something - a few. therefore, watching shaky shots at an amateur camera is pretty tiring.
- and here the approach to the UGC is different: you first need to offer an idea, get approval, make a film, and then get the money. I did not check how it works, but the picture here is not bad.
In general, the video is a great idea and quite fresh, and the quality of the content should come.
It seems to me that budding video hosting on a niche is inevitable.
Search flight tickets and hotels that do not sell anything
Another fashionable theme is to find you a ticket (hotel) and redirect to the airline (hotel) website, without selling anything. Led by Kayak, these are really very useful services, especially in the light of the universal transition to an electronic ticket. I think about these services already know a lot, but I will bring them here to complete the picture:
Search for fellow travelers, friends
The general idea is to indicate the place where you live and indicate the place where you are going and when.
You will find people who a) - go there at this time, b) - live there. c) - travel there.
Then everything depends on you how the contacts will be made.
The PairUp network is focused on business users.
Personally, this niche seems to me, though useful, but not independent. This is me to the fact that business travelers, if they want to be much more successful to connect LinkedIn. And ordinary - Facebook with its extensions.
Audio guides
Very niche product, but very interesting and unusual:
Audio guides to places. This implies the download of these guides by users.
Photos from the "local"
A very unusual approach to sharing photos on google maps. Photos are not shared by travelers but ordinary people. It means that you can walk around the area, shoot and upload to the site. It can be anything, the only important thing is the presence of geo-referencing. Then it will be useful to someone on a journey, or simply informative.
Wikitravel
And here is what is very impressive and what the future is for, I think:
Of course, Wikitravel is not the freshest site, but the growing popularity is fascinating. Who did not know there are notorious blogs: extra.wikitravel.org, although for the time being in a rather poor state. But this is a period of growth.
According to the materials of work on venividi.ru
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/19724/
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