Posted on 20 November 2006
Travel videos appear to be the hottest thing on Travel 2.0 websites! This really hit me when, in two days I received announcement of new travel videos from the discount travel agency, Travelzoo.com and from the social travel site Tripmates.com.
Travel Zoo Unleashed Travel Videos currently has three 20-minute long videos up: Washington DC, Atlantic [...]
Tags: Travel, travel 2.0, travelistic.com, travelzoo.com, tripmates.com, turnhere.com, video
Posted on 20 August 2006
The Fresh Logic Atlas is an Ajax-like and Google-like mapping site. There are three tabs at the top right of the screen:
Start: Directions, Email (send an email to Fresh Logic), Search, Toolbox (zoom and map type), Defaults, and Help
Features: Locate with pins Blogs, Events (from Eventful.com), Gas Prices, Movie Theaters, Traffic Notices, and Wifi Hotspots
Services: [...]
Tags: ajax, atlas, directions, events, Fresh Logic Atlas, Gas Prices, google maps, gps, location, map, Mapping, Movies, Travel, WiFI
Posted on 21 July 2006
Relief Riders International offers a longtail, niche tour product that is guaranteed to change lives, including both the lives of the travelers and the people in the destination they visit.
RRI take small groups of travelers (about 15 at a time) on a truly unique experience. They ride by horses for 15 days to remote [...]
Tags: development, horse, horseback, India, Red Cross, Tourism, Travel
Posted on 18 June 2006
SavoryNewYork.com does video overviews of restaurants in New York City. You can sign up for their newsletter, but I could not find an RSS feed for the videos, so by some definitions this is not really a videocast or podcast.
Savory New York provides detailed information about a wide range of restaurants in New [...]
Tags: Dining, Food, New York, podcast, restaurant, Restaurants, reviews, savorytv, Tourism, Travel, videocast, vlog, vodcast
Posted on 12 June 2006
Latitudes is National Geographic 2.0 — a gorgeous online travel photo magazine with Italian flare and built for online viewing. A broadband connection is necessary and the latest issue (#14) is 181 pages of sharp full color photos and animations.
Issue #14 covers Columbia, Myanmar, The Berkshire Hills (Massachusetts), Mt. Etna, [...]
Tags: Geography, Latitudes, Magazine, Photography, Photos, Tourism, Travel, Web20