Traxo is new travel website that probably does the best job at finding out if any of your business or personal contacts will be in the same place at the same time as you. But it requires you to upload either all your frequent flier/hotel/car loyalty numbers and their passwords or your sign-ins to airline websites, online travel agencies, hotel and car rental websites ONE time using Traxo’s centralized dashboard. In return, Traxo will create itineraries, alerting you if your plans overlap with your any of your contacts to avoid missed connections. You will never have to manually enter trip details or constantly forward travel confirmation emails to create a trip itinerary – Traxo will compile it all for you. What’s unique is that if a trip is cancelled or modified, Traxo automatically makes the update(s). It also has an area to write reviews so you can easily seek advice from your trusted friends (you can automatically upload your Facebook or address book contacts) that have been to a destination before. This must make the folks at those review sites shake in their boots since on their sites, you don’t know who is telling the truth or not.
Here’s a handy website for travelers looking to book an airport shuttle. Instead of going to multiple sites to get a price quote, you can just log on to ShuttleFare input your airport and where you want to be dropped off or picked up. It searches a variety of transportation companies including those offered by SuperShuttle and Go.
Hyatt Resorts is looking for a kid journalist to go ‘On Assignment’ at a Camp Hyatt location and report about their experiences on CampHyatt.com. To enter the challenge, parents can upload a short video to CampHyattOnAssignment.com of their child describing why he or she should become the new Camp Hyatt Reporter. One grand prize winner with the most creative and entertaining video will win a 6-day/5-night trip for them and three guests to enjoy authentic hospitality at a Hyatt Resort of their choice in the US or Caribbean and experience a week of Camp Hyatt. Entries for the contest are being accepted until September 4, 2009.
I'm sure you've seen (we featured it back in July) or at least heard about the
United Breaks Guitars video. It took the web and United Airlines by storm in a very short time. It was a song written and performed by Dave Carrol who is in a Canadian band called Sons of Maxwell. Dave and his band were on a United Airlines flight from Halifax to Omaha via Chicago and he witnessed the baggage handlers toss his $3,500 Taylor guitar, which in turn damaged it. When United gave Dave the run-around for almost a year, he promised the last person to finally say "no" to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that he would write and produce three songs about his experience and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world. Well, United snickered and it came back to bite them in the a**. What I love about the web is that it gives us little guys the power to make the big guys (major airlines) accountable. The first video received over 5 million views on YouTube! That was just the beginning because song number two was released a couple of weeks ago and it’s a major production full of volunteers who were upset with United as well. Here's Dave’s full story and songs one and two.
