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October Update on VTRIP Website

Posted in Global, Technology, vtrip by G on October 13, 2008

Lot of updates were on the way for the past three months and few of them to mention are:

1. Deals to compare has increased to 900,000. This really shows the potential of a maximum conversion ratio compared to a traditional approach of searching for a deal.
2. The color and the table themes now support the round edges and global color pattern of light blue.
3. Google Adsense, As we expected, when some one was attempting to exit out of the web site, they create the interest in looking at the ads provided by the Google Adsense.

Future Updates (Q4 – Q1 09):

This is going to be a major update on the core website, which will bring more organized informations on the hotel properties organized under the country theme itself. This update will make this website a one stop location to know everything about the destination and hotel information with the price comparison. One of the major thing we are attempting to bring on this update is automated discovery of informations on the properties and their changes. 90% of the top websites never publish the changes on a property within few days, we are attempting to bring the update information on the property every day.

VTRIP Month of May Upgrades

Posted in vtrip by G on May 19, 2008

The latest upgrades are on the hotel details. As you see on the color scheme, we tried to maintain the sky blue through out the site. Still working out on a new style sheet which will add the crispiness to the over all site.

As you see on the Welcome page, we tested the RSS feed from Kayak for the Flight Deals and it seems to run smooth lot of new deals since its a summer season. Planning another update to this module is to add the city and put the airport codes in round braces.

When you get into the hotel page, we improvised the content feed selection, and upgraded the search features made it as standard over the left side and if you notice on the right hand side and the bottom, we are showing the Google Adwords as well, Lets say if you don’t find the better deal with us, you have an oppurtunity to get the deals provider from a Google Adwords advertiser and the ads are optimized to get to you the relative ads for the location you are searching.

We didn’t stop there, as Google Maps getting updated for Europe and Asia, those are getting automatically adopted by the VTRIP Price Comparison System.

If you haven’t noticed, we added a strict formatted iGoogle Gadget as well, I was not able to do the auto fill in this one, but however, the Windget Box version supports iGoogle as well. Try to explore it whenever you can.

Additionally, if you have noticed, we added couple of more things which is more of a suggestive like when you land on a city you will have automatic suggestion for Popular cities in that country which will allow you to plan for exploring further in that country.

Finally we added the Sites Searched option which is a dynamic update of what are the sites being searched for you specific search.

So what are you waiting for, Gather. Search. Compare and start planning a vacation of your dream with VTRIP.INFO.

Last but not least, Always share your hotel stay experience in the following URL:

Write Hotel Review

Its always anoynomous and will be a really helpful for some one else before they make a descision.

Update Plan for June:

1) Style Sheet update for more crisp look.
2) Smart Travel Guide Update (Will give the control to you for most updates possible)

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