Travel startup UpTake set to launch opinions super-site
With so many online travel sites crowding the market, you’d think we were nearing a Web 2.0 travel bubble. But according to travel information search engine UpTake, which is launching May 14, there’s still an untapped niche in the market: a travel-opinions supersite.
The market is extremely fragmented with thousands of micro-sites for individual hotels, beaches, airlines and leisure activities. UpTake’s goal is to gather opinions from all of those sites together and become the most… Continue Reading
Travel site WAYN.com raises $11M for travel social networking site
WAYN.com, a London-based social networking travel web site, has raised $11m (£5.7m).
It lets users enter details of where they are and where they have traveled in the past, and how they can share information about say, the best bars in New York. It resembles RealTravel, a Silicon Valley site that does that sort of thing.
It says it wants to be the MySpace of the travel business. It says it is already profitable (although… Continue Reading