A new travel website is available on the Internet called Business Travel Fun. It is a fledgling travel site dedicated to providing unbiased and independent reviews of restaurants, bars, and other places of interest for the weary business traveler. What does this mean? Well, it’s simple. The weary business traveler, like me, often does not have time to research the many towns and cities they find themselves in for a place to eat or to relax. They often get to a destination they know nothing about, sometimes late, and all they have to choose from on the internet is your basic commercial mega-sites that list restaurants and bars in the area. If you’re lucky, someone may have left an opinion on the site which may lead you to or away from a place. You do not know if there is a financial interest behind the person writing the opinion, and more times than not, there is nothing of value there. Business Travel Fun is written by a traveler for the traveler with straight shooting no holes barred opinions, and no ownership or financial interest in any of the places reviewed.
Why would a busy business traveler spend the time to do this? The main reason is this – I know what it is like to travel to a place that is unfamiliar. I search the Yellow Pages or the Internet for a restaurant or a bar only to find a listing of names, but no way of telling if they are anything I’d be interested in. Then when I do decide on a place, many times it turns out not being worth the trek out because the service or the food was sub par. The purpose of Business Travel Fun is to fill this gap by providing trustworthy unbiased advice on a place before you get in your car and go there. You can be sure that I do not take bribes, and I do not announce myself before I go to a place. That way I get regular treatment and can write an unbiased independent review.
But Business Travel Fun provides a little more than just an opinion about a place. Each review displays a list of highlights that captures offerings like live entertainment, pool tables or video games, NTN Trivia, and karaoke. So at a glance you can see what they have there to do. Additionally, each review has a rating table that rates each place on different criteria. This way you can see what a regular guy thinks about the place, and you can make an informed decision on whether or not you want to go there or try something else. Lets face it, you’re already away from home and probably tired and hungry – who wants to go out to a place and come back unhappy because it didn’t have what you were looking for, or worse the food or service was terrible?
Business Travel Fun is written primarily for the business traveler, but it is also useful to anyone just looking for a fair and honest opinion about a place in their area too. We also just implemented a Forum where anyone can comment on an article, write a review of their own, chat about anything else, and if you happen to be a restaurant or bar owner that received a review, you can provide a rebuttal or comment if you wish.
You are cordially invited to visit Business Travel Fun. Please stop by the forum and let us know what you think.
Business Travel Fun is a website that provides Unbiased and Independent Reviews of Restaurants & Bars written by a Traveler for the Traveler.
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Of course! The ones you've been using are just slimy link sites that some goof is trying to get trickle-in revenues from by posting all over places like this.
http://www.bookingbuddy.com which will shop all of the other sources–including sources that check other sources–for you with just 1 input of cities and dates. It does not charge any additional fees.
Post the specific route(s) you need, and I'll check back to add more for you. Many of the world's low-cost airlines do NOT show up in your sites or Bookingbuddy, and you have to check them individually if they apply to the route(s) you need.
The answer to that question is very simple. Brick and mortar – physical – travel agencies typically have to charge higher prices for vacations to cover their operating expenses and to pay their travel agents. Online travel sites have access to all of the same travel providers that brick and mortar agencies use. Because of lower overhead, the prices that are charged are lower resulting in better prices for the traveller.
The most common and more successful travel portals are Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. Simply speaking, these sites have replaced the travel agent. What they are
actually doing is purchasing “travel” at wholesale from a consolidator, marking the price up, then selling to you.
Without the need for a traditional business location, and with the sales of paid advertising on their websites, allows them to pass on greater savings than the “brick and mortar”
agents or the smaller offline and online travel agencies who simply cannot compete.
What is a travel consolidator?
At any given time, the travel industry, that being airlines, hotels, resorts, cruises, timeshares and so on, is operating at a 30-40% vacancy rate. Rather than let this “inventory” of rooms and seats sit idle, travel and tour providers offer
their “vacancies” to what are known as “consolidators” or “wholesale” travel distributors. These “consolidators’ then make this discounted inventory available to insider travel
agents and portals such as Expedia, who then offer “marked up” deals.
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The travel business is a messy, dog eat dog, dying business. If you are just getting into it, I wish you luck. You are going to need it. Commissions are never guaranteed. Travel agents have the same problem trying to get hotels to pay the commissions.. We usually have to hunt them down. You may want to consider seeing if you can build-in a non refundable service fee on your site that is tacked on when the hotel is booked. That way know matter what happens with the booking you are guaranteed at least that for your effort..That's what travel agents do now with airline tickets, since the airlines no longer pay travel agents commission on tickets they book.. Good Luck…
tripadvisor.com
it has lots of info on tons of resorts and other places and you can also book thru them.
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There are multiple ways to answer this question. The first is that most major reservation systems run on some sort of fast mainframe. SABRE, for instance, does this, and so do systems like COVIA, WORLDSPAN, and other underlying reservations systems. For airlines, most of the reservations systems were once owned by the airlines but are now independent companies, and in some cased, the reservations systems have outlasted the airlines (WORLDSPAN used to be part of Eastern Airlines, for instance).
These systems can 'talk' to each other using special software, some of which has been written pretty generically so it can be adapted quickly to new reservations systems. For instance, SABRE's QuickAccess system allows American Airlines and other SABRE users to type in commands and the back end decides whether it's a reservation request for a rental car from Hertz, or a request for an airline seat, or a request for something else. It does this in real time.
However, in such systems, there's not really such a thing as 'real time'. The information is out of date almost instantly. Therefore, they use a concept called "yield management" (which is common to all logistical operations) in which they make an intelligent guess as to what availability WILL be.
Sometimes they get this wrong, and that's why they ask people to volunteer to take the next plane in exchange for a voucher.
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Don't know, but welcome! Hope you have a great time when you're here!
Hi, i always use http://www.tripadvisor.com
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There's tons of places to sell your photos online. A quick Google search for stock photos will reveal many of the typical sites that people will often sell too. Most of these sites tend to take a large part of the money that you make off of every photo. Try a smaller site like gonogging.com which is a free registration and lets you put up as many pictures as you like, only charging a small service fee for doing so. Good luck selling!
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Try "carnival.com"
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