Posts tagged with 'Travel'

What would influence you to book your holiday online?

By Gemma Maidment on 8 June 2011

It’s that time of year again when your friends and colleagues are talking about going on holiday but you haven’t booked anything… What is the first thing you do? Well other than despair and wonder if the UK will be hot enough this year not to go abroad (probably not), I usually get online and … Read more about ‘What would influence you to book your holiday online?’


Designing effective map-based browsing

By Abid Warsi on 7 January 2010

Many websites from varying sectors have some kind of geographical-based navigation, whether it’s a travel website, an estate agents’ site or even the store locator function on a retail website. The question is how to offer this functionality. Some sites offer map-based browsing, but often it’s not used heavily as it’s not easy-to-use. I’ve come … Read more about ‘Designing effective map-based browsing’


Retrospective BA miles claims hinder online experience

By Jon White on 15 December 2009

British Airways might have enough problems at the moment what with making big financial losses and reports that its cabin crew have voted nine to one in favour of striking over the Christmas period. Nevertheless, I’d like to talk about a shortcoming I encountered deep within its website, specifically in the Executive Club section.

Firstly I … Read more about ‘Retrospective BA miles claims hinder online experience’


Online travel journal tool could develop into a must for travellers

By Frankie Pagnacco on 3 November 2009

In a previous post I talked about communicating with those back home while travelling and how in the 90s this relied on the solidness of postcards, letters and phone calls. The audience for these was, by necessity, rather small - family and a couple of envious best friends.

Now, my brother is on a one-year overland … Read more about ‘Online travel journal tool could develop into a must for travellers’