Tuesday 3 October 2006 by Edward.

Mapping has entered a rennaissance on the internet, and map mashups are feeding the creative juices of map creators. The programmableweb.com is a hotbed of mashups with almost three new map mashups appearing daily. Today, for example, one can find new maps of Starbucks Coffee locations, Golf Courses, Rinks, and “drunkest cities” in the USA. Over the last six months the number of mashups has doubled to over 1,000.
The site lists about 70 mashups on travel. Including, for example:

Hotel Map
20,000 motels and hotels in the USA
UK B&B
UK’s B&B, cheap hotel, and guest house accomodation directory
Broadway shows
A listing of current shows, times, pricing, tickets, direction and parking
GeoWalk
A worldwide travel guide with embedded Wikipedia, Flikr and Google News
MCity
Guide to best underground locations in Melbourne, Australia
Toronto Virtual Tour
A 360 degree photo tour of Toronto landmarks

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Monday 2 October 2006 by Edward.

Business and Leisure trevellers can now print their own airline boarding passes for 18 major airlines from kiosks placed in all Embassy Suites Hotels, reports Travel Industry Wire.

I went online to the Embassy Suites Hotel Raleigh-Crabtree, North Carolina, to check out their kiosk link. Five options were presented: suite check-in, suite check-out, airline check-in, personalised messaging, and coupons for hotel service. The airline option allowed printout of your boarding pass and display of flight information.

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Sunday 1 October 2006 by Edward.

Pink Foot Awards for my favourite postings in September 2006.

BEFORE the visit post: Flybe online flight change tool
DURING the visit post: rent-a-GPS
AFTER the visit post: none awarded this month
Favourite tourist tool/idea/web: Vail, Colorado, wheel experience

30SEP2006 A 3-megapixel camera for your keychain

29SEP2006 Kim possible tests cell phone game at Disney

28SEP2006 Tourists can now rent a GPS by the day

27SEP2006 Tourist Brochures leading way to online multimedia

26SEP2006 Enjoy Philadelphia’s Flavorhoods

25SEP2006 Counter Test

24SEP2006 Buy your rail tickets online at the iWay cyber Cafe

23SEP2006 TripConnect: a travel advice network

22SEP2006 Tourism blogging partnership created

21SEP2006 Flybe tool allows on-line flight changes

20SEP2006 The Tourist Experience relaunched in USA Today

19SEP2006 Internet Tourism Partnerships 2.0

18SEP2006 Free WiFi access spreads rapidly

17SEP2006 TurnHere for Tourism on Google Earth

16SEP2006 Tech predictions for the hospitality industry

15SEP2006 Tourists never need be late again for a UK train

14SEP2006 NZlive.com connects New Zealand to the world

13SEP2006 Wirelessly charge your cell phone .. with SplashPower

13SEP2006 Go! Worldspan desktop tools for travel agents

12SEP2006 Tourism tracking with SkyTRX mini-GPS tracker

11SEP2006 Tourism post 9/11

11SEP2006 It’s a dog-eat-dog travel agent world out there

10SEP2006 Tourists find off-season vacations increasingly attractive

09SEP2006 Vail, Colorado, gives tourists a wheel experience

08SEP2006 The world’s largest destination guide: WikiTravel

07SEP2006 Internet’s “word of mouth” tourism tools

06SEP2006 British Airways uses Google Earth

05SEP2006 Galveston.com wins Interactive Media Award

04SEP2006 lastMinute.com uses ResponseTek customer service

03SEP2006 Rest stop WiFi numbers growing in the USA

03SEP2006 Convert “lookers” into “bookers” with BookSure

02SEP2006 Speed your way through travel websites

01SEP2006 Pink Foot Tourist & Tourism Technology Awards. August 2006

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