Technorati founder Dave Sifry has launched a new website that help people to make customized travel plans. for more then 30,000 travel destinations. The site ask you to enter your name, travel plans, and hotel and then after the system pulls the information from Wikitravel, Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, AccuWeather, Google Maps, and Eventful. Most important thing is that the system is keep adding information from dozens of sources.
How to Build your Travel Guide
With five simple steps, and in under five minutes, you can create your own personalized Offbeat Guide!
- Step 1: Tell us your destination. This enables us to gather travel content that is relevant to your travel plans.
- Step 2: Tell us your current location. By telling us where you live, we can further customize your guide with time zone information, weather forecasts, exchange rates, and more!
- Step 3: Tell us your name. For a truly personalized guide, we will print your name on the front cover, ensuring that the guide is unique and special to you.
- Step 4: Tell us your travel dates. By knowing your travel dates, we are able to find the most up-to-date information about events that will be occurring in your chosen destination, provide you with a weather forecast for your stay, and more.
- Step 5: Tell us where are you staying (optional). Tell us where you are staying and we will center your walking maps around your accommodations.
After building your travel guide you can download it as PDF file PDF for $9.95 or purchase it in physical form for $24.95, which also includes the PDF. If you are connected to Internet throughout your journey then their is no need to download the travel guide.
Money-back Guarantee: Your satisfaction is very important to us. If you are not completely satisfied, we will give you your money back. There is no obligation to return your guide to us in order to get your money back.
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I will give it a try and spread the word about about this tool with my friends and clients!
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There are a couple of sites that offer this kind of service, and I can only see this market expanding. More and more, travelers and tourists don’t want to go to the same old tourist spots and these types of customized travel guides are perfect for helping to plan the right vacation for you.