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=**A travel across Web 2.0**=

Coming to the industry where he operates, Kalra said, “a compelling business model is the web site Travel 2.0. It harnesses traditional travel support activities such as peer reviews, scrapbooks and folders of trip info. There has been a paradigm shift in travel. The search for lowest fare is over. It’s all about finding the perfect trip,” stated Kalra. [|article]

=Yahoo! Travel in Flickr partnership=

Travel users will be able to search, view and contribute photos. new service will inspire users in their travel choices and enable them to book with the confidence that they have fully researched their trip by viewing and reading both authorities licensed and user-generated content The great advantage of online photo-sharing is that it enables us to harness the true value of the online global community by allowing users across the world to communicate their experiences by posting and sharing photos. [|Article]

=The web has changed in many ways since "Web 1.0". Here are just a few:= The internet has changed so much these past years, so that it is almost impossible for a company to keep up, so they don’t. Many people around the world edit and add things to the web. This keeps everyone up to date on things and what the consumer really wants.

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Overview: Travel Post is a good "Web 2.0" travel site. This is a few quick facts on the site:
This site has blogs and posts about different hotels and motels for anyone wanting info on good available hotels in certain areas. The target audience is adults, people with high quality taste in hotels. This site has ratings and reviews of different hotels from visitors of that hotel. It could include tags for other things instead of just the names, but it is still a pretty good site. I thing this would be a very helpful site when looking for a hotel in a particular area on a vacation.

Cheap Flights to go anywhere in the World!!!
Cheap flights are the key thing in today's traveling business and vacations. At this site you can get really expensive flights for a low price. [|momondo]



=**[|Kayak]**= Search for flights Search for hotels Kayak.com searches hundreds of travel sites to give you the widest possible choice of hotels and prices. It costs nothing to search and not a cent to book because we're not a travel agency. Retried people

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 * On this website you can schedule anything from your airplane ride to your hotel**//.//

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--In this article they are saying choose a Hawaiian cruise of your choice, and on the web pages you can choose. In web 1.0 for traveling you could not do this.

=//__Trip Connect--__//=

In the web 2.0 we use a __**TRIP**__ **__CONNECT__** which allows you to get travel advice from a network of friends and others who share your tastes and interests.

[|Article|Article about "trip-connect"]
Like those, and others, **TripConnect** alows members to list, review and blog about places where you have been, and asking others members about places you want to go. **TripConnect** also allows you to suggest and join special interest groups which is less common elsewhere.
 * Overview of Article**