If you’re new to Montreal, planning to visit Montreal and simply want to discover new activities in this amazing city, check out this blog: Breaky with Becky. It’s a weekly bulletin of the various activities that you can enjoy in Montreal with whatever unplanned leisure time you may have during the week.
While you’re there, help them [...]

The Travel Innovation Summit happened this week in Hollywood, CA. I want to congratulate the companies who were selected for this conference. This conference wasn’t only about “innovation” but also about “money.” Companies who are not backed by VC money had little chance to attend this conference as the application cost $500 and, if selected, [...]

The travel 2.0 companies continue to innovate. Of course, the travel industry is a multi-billion dollars industry and EVERYBODY travels (business, leisure, or a combination of the two) … and most people LOVE to travel. So it’s great when new companies come up with solutions to make our travel lives easier or more efficient.
Today, I got [...]

Last night, a new travel site went live: WholeTravel, a portal for discovering sustainable travel opportunities. Well, they have been around since 2006, but they have redesigned and just relaunched their site today. And they’re off for a good start with an article on TechCrunch.

I exchanged ideas with them a few months ago about marketing [...]

I downloaded Google’s new browser (Chrome) yesterday and I made it my default browser for now… I have found a couple of things that is already bugging me as a user, but I’ll give it a try for a little longer. Unforunetly I can’t really tell any speed difference because my Internet here is considerately [...]

A couple of weeks ago I ordered some MOO business cards for YowTRIP. MOO is a London-based printing company, that you can print different pictures on the back of each of your business cards. The paper is finally what I had been looking for and could not find anywhere.
So, I selected 50 of my favorite [...]

One of the things I try to do with YowTRIP is to find relevant partnerships that add value to our members or different opportunities for a contest/giveaway.
RAG New York will be giving 10 NYC shirts to our members visiting New York in August. I’m going to announce it to our members on our next newsletter.
As [...]

As I spent a lot of time this week reviewing YowTRIP’s business plan and its goals, and I started thinking more about our competitors (or at least the big online travel social networks) and how we compare with them. I’m not sure yet who I’d say are our direct competitors, as I’m still compiling that [...]

TechCrunch wrote an article about OurPlanet (I’m not going to link to these guys, because it’s a waste of time - trust me on this one!) on June 9. Too bad I didn’t see it until yesterday.
Well, basically they reviewed this new “travel site” that claims it will be “trip advisor, hostel world and lonely [...]