Get Your Travel Advice from TravBuddy
April 24, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under How To, Reference, Social Networking
I spent around seven years in the travel industry as a corporate travel agent and somewhat quickly moved into being a technology manager for travel services. One of my responsibilities over those years was to design and manage internal travel websites for our corporate clients. The website shared information about preferred vendors for air, car rental and hotel information as well as travel policy and the other normal stuff.
TravBuddy website homepage
One thing I quickly realized in my experience with travel was that I didn’t have any desire to do leisure travel (although I always did dream or planning and organizing independent travel excursions to Africa for safaris and the like). Finding out information about destinations that you’re interested can be a challenge, and usually the best advice you get is when you can talk to someone that’s been there. I just helped a friend who had questions about their upcoming Disney trip to celebrate their daughter’s birthday.
The TravBuddy website has combined the best of sharing travel information and destination reviews with the tools and feature set of the current social networking sites that seem to be springing up everywhere. This is a great marriage of content and function in my opinion.
TravBuddy is a site for people who love to explore the world around them. You can use TravBuddy to find travel buddies, record travel experiences in travel blogs, or share travel tips with travel reviews.
No matter where you are exploring, we hope this site will make it easy and fun for you to chronicle your experiences, both past and present. We hope that it will also be an invaluable resource for keeping in contact with family and friends, and for making new friends from all around the world.
If you don’t already have an account, you can register for free or take a tour to learn more about the site.
– The TravBuddy Team
Now my only problem is figuring out how to get more time and money to actually travel around more than I do now, which is pretty much non-existent. The one thing I never took advantage of while in travel was actually traveling that much. However, the benefits aren’t exactly what you’ve probably heard or expect.
