PlanetEye
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July 10th, 2008
The New and Improved PlanetEye
- Mark Evans
- Director, Community
Since I joined PlanetEye a year ago, it has been fascinating to watch how the company has evolved, taken new and exciting directions, and started to establish itself as a vibrant player in the online travel planning market.
In the process, PlanetEye has gone from a ultra-private beta involving friends and family to a private beta to a public beta. Today, we’re excited to announce the official launch of PlanetEye as a one-stop destination for all your travel planning needs.
The centerpiece of the launch is a feature called the Travel Pack, which lets travelers “clip” the interesting photographs, attractions, hotels and restaurants discovered on PlanetEye when they are planning a trip or simply putting together travel ideas. Everything on PlanetEye is geotagged, which means you can see everything on a map, and even create your own personalized maps.
What’s great about the Travel Pack is the more you add to it, the better feel you get for your trip because you can easily and quickly get a sense of where everything is located. It means, for example, that if you select a number of restaurants and attractions in the same area, it’s a snap to book a nearby hotel where you can walk to everything.
Another positive development is PlanetEye has entered into an affiliate agreement with Travelocity.com so you can book your hotels (airline flights and car rentals will be also be available soon) on PlanetEye. We’ve also got partnerships so you can make restaurant reservations (OpenTable), buy tickets to events and attractions (StubHub) and book a spa appointment (WaySpa) – all on PlanetEye.
PlanetEye also features extensive travel content. We now have “Local Experts” in 50 cities around the world providing a local’s perspective on what to do and eat, and where to stay. We’re also aggregating a growing number of professional sources, which you can use to seed your Travel Pack.
This is just the beginning as we’ll be introducing more features and partnerships in the coming months!
Our excitement has been building over the past month as our CEO, Butch Langlois, has given analysts, journalists and bloggers a sneak-peak of what we’ve been working on.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, had a encouraging words:
“PlanetEye pulls together advanced social networking elements, contextual mapping, and professional travel information to create the most advanced travel planning tool I have ever seen. If you are planning a trip or simply want to imagine one, PlanetEye is the first place you should go.”
So far, it has been a great adventure to watch PlanetEye develop into a valuable and useful travel planning service. A tremendous amount work has happened behind the scenes to make it all happen, and today’s launch is just the beginning of good times to come.
More: Thanks to VentureBeat and Mashable for covering our launch.
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July 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] good friend of mine is heavily involved in it and tipped me to their beta program. Well the service officially launched today, and to good press, it seems! Congratulations and good luck to the team. Go check them [...]
July 10th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Congratulations to you and the PlanetEye team! The site looks great. I’ve
already perused through it and am thinking about applying to be a Local Expert
to share my travel knowledge and provide advice to the places I’ve been to.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Its really good to know about the growth of the PlanetEye team. Keep up the good work. Travel information can be searched in some of the website that present with information regarding destination information, safety and travel tips, business safety, advice for women travelers and so on..