Travelmusings on the New Planner from Travelmuse
The folks over at Travelmuse are heralding the unveiling of the latest release of the TravelMuse Planner. The new Planner is reportedly a huge improvement over the previous one, and is now the ‘most advanced yet intuitive trip planning solution on the Web.’
I’m having visions of ‘The Planner’ becoming self-aware and going around waking people in the night and forcing them to start planning for a trip.
You think that’s a joke? Go to the TravelMuse homepage (www.travelmuse.com/), just type in a destination and give it a test-run.
You’ll end up hooked, and doing travel research for a trip you didn’t know you wanted to take. That’s because the new Travelmuse Planner makes the whole thing seem like a breeze – it’s a lot easier to find and save content you like, both on Travelmuse and from elsewhere on the web.
That, in turn, is because of the new features that have been implemented, like the Tripfolio that follows you around and dutifully saves and lists all the pages that interest you. Another new useful tool that is now available on Travelmuse is the embedded search facility.
Somebody at Travelmuse probably came to the conclusion (and rightly so) that no matter how great your website is and even if you offer everything that they want, travelers will always want to check out some more sites. With embedded search, Travelmuse is allowing that impluse free rein, but without losing the visitor to other sites.
With this feature, you can save web pages from outside directly to the trip plan without leaving TravelMuse. Saves you the trouble of keeping multiple windows open and bookmarking tons of pages.
And by storing it all at Travelmuse, no matter what kind of page it is - a hotel review, article, or a blog post, you get to see the big picture when you want to start making sense of the gazzilion pages you just went through.
And they’re also refocusing their content to enhance it’s value to the trip planning process. In a blog post, Travelmuse CEO Kevin Fliess says that from now on, “you’ll see fewer general articles and more bite-sized pearls of wisdom specifically designed to make your trip planning experience better.”
In the next few months, Travelmuse is also planning to add destination ratings, recommended trips and descriptions of things to do at destinations.
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