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Travel Consultancy » Blog Archive » St barts travel — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:22:35 +0000

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By: amit

amit — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:38:27 +0000

Preetam,

Agree with you on that count. User generated content sites have a throbbing, exciting & inclusive feeling about them and sites with professional content cannot compare at all with them.

But these sites have a different role to play and have a different kind of appeal.

amit

By: Preetam Rai

Preetam Rai — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:57:09 +0000

I don’t get much excited by this site. True, their quality is better than user generated stuff but there is no way they are going to cover a lot of places by having a Lonely Planet like closed content model. Just look at how wikitravel has grown over the years. I would suggest to them to open their site for user submissions. They could still have some “featured” videos. its not 1990′s anymore, I don’t even look at a site where I can’t participate.

By: amit

amit — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:50:37 +0000

Sanjay,

Thats true; their revenue model is not currently actuated and also does not seem obvious; and my hunch is that it cannot be oriented towards users; it has to be oriented towards travel industry operators – hotels, travel agents etc.

lets wait and watch

amit

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:27:04 +0000

Its an excellent site. But I was just wondering how the site would be recovering the considerable costs that it must be incurring on creating these videos…

By: Saket Kumar

Saket Kumar — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:18:51 +0000

I must agree that quality travel videos uploaded to geobeats are real differentiator for them. Vishesh and the team has done really great job.

They should provide easy to use widget for iGoogle (I’m fan of it), Netvibes and other start page. With our product, we have seen that start page widgets bring lots of traffic for us.