Often seen merely as a stepping stone to the stunning Italian islands accessible via its bustling port, Naples is seldom considered a destination in itself. Contrary to this negative portrayal, Naples is a lively, culture-rich city that deserves more recognition. As the birthplace of pizza, it commands respect on culinary grounds alone. Moreover, it’s home to a wealth of significant archaeological treasures, and its unpolished streets have a beauty and authenticity that’s been washed away in other large European cities. It’s also home to a handful of excellent luxury boutique hotels offering outstanding Italian hospitality and beautiful accommodations. Here are the top hotels in Naples, Italy for a weekend getaway or extended vacation in city and around the city.
Stay.com and the Evolution of Online Travel
27.11.2023 - 09:54 / traveldailynews.com
The goal of Stay.com is to use an intuitive user interface so travelers can find, consolidate, share, and collaborate their travels.
It is no secret that the travel business is migrating to online tools. Expedia and a host of other remarkably successful online booking giants have helped spur profits and customer value unheard of even a decade ago. This focus, or shift, is even more evident when we look at huge online players like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft engaging with their own movements in the space.
Besides the big players like Expedia (and its TripAdvisor), Kayak, LastMinute, and to a lesser degree Orbitz, there are other online platforms which actually refine the online travel experience even more. TripIt for example, is all about simplicity in trip collaboration while a new travel startup called Kukunu takes that value and adds in better planning and social collaboration. The online travel website game is as much about finding the perfect balance now, as it is about simple bookings.
Another new example we just tried is a killer domain, Stay.com, with many of the best tools of other online portals – but somehow cleaner and more simply navigated. Plus the novel, but valuable idea of “in your pocket” PDF guides. On top of that, from what we hear, all that simple flexibility will soon go geo-located via mobile. That is the Holy Grail for any online travel tool. But, let’s take a look at Stay.com as one example of forward thinking online travel.
For Stay.com Beta as it exists, users of grab elements such as hotels, restaurants, bars, shopping, museums and other venues together with a click. They then create a personal guide specific to their needs, tastes and destination preferences. These can be consulted from via computer or (coming smart phone), or printed out as a pocket-sized .pdf. Users can the broadcast their itinerary or parts of it to friends via Facebook and Twitter. They can even collaborate during the creation of the guides as well.
The goal of Stay.com is to use an intuitive user interface so travelers can find, consolidate, share, and collaborate their travels. The cities, lodging, restaurant and so on, are arranged hierarchically from most relevant to the possibly useful. So, users not only have collaborative value, they have relevant suggestion as they build destinations.
The ability to read, look, research, and modify online – or to make use of in condensed form in print – are two components of a powerful 3 part platform. As we said, the mobile application is due with the next release. Combining these three elements, integrated, could prove to be the template for all coming online travel tools.
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