Travel 2.0 is a term coined by PhoCusWright, a company dedicated to travel innovation and responsible for several important conferences in that field.

For this post, Travel 2.0 is every website that allows the user to be in control of what he sees, reads, writes and chooses. Above all, this websites, have an integrated social network structure even if they don’t seem social sites at first sight. Also included are tools that make our life easier when considering choosing and getting info on our destinations.

Hope you like it.

360Cities (www.360cities.net)
The world in virtual reality. A different approach on world discovery.

43Places (www.43places.com)
Famous social travel website. Stupendous amount of reviews, guides e experiences shared by users.

Airopinion (www.airopinion.com)
Reviews, opinions and ratings on airlines, airports and agencies. A long way to go but already a valid reference.

Aniwai (www.aniwai.com)
Social travel, forums, wikis, photography and reports.

Atlarge (www.atlarge.com)
Find all that is to now about Internet access on airports.

Atlas da Freshlogic (atlas.freshlogicstudios.com)
A geo-navegation and geo-information service. Evolved and interesting.

Bezurk (www.bezurk.com)
Flight, hotel and activities search. Fast and complete. Huge amount of relevant results.

Booking.com (www.booking.com)
Probably the best hotel finder around.

BookingBuddy (www.bookingbuddy.com)
Excellent starting point for flight search.

Chokti (www.chokti.com)
Audioguides, videoguides, photography and maps.

Clean Cruising (www.cleancruising.com.au)
Cruise search and lots of info on cruise ships, routes and destinations.

Cryofinders (www.cryofinders.com)
Delays, departures, arrivals, problems or anything else that is flight related. Makes use of Flightstats data.

DoHop (pt.dohop.com)
Search and compare flight prices. Fast and easy to use.

Domegos (www.domegos.com)
Rental 2.0. Search apartments, houses and bed & Breakfast. Free listings for owners.

Dopplr (www.dopplr.com)
Share your trip plans and get in touch with travelers that share the same destination.

ePassportPhoto (www.epassportphoto.com)
Create your passport photos in just a few clicks.

EveryScape (www.everyscape.com)
A unique and innovative way to discover the planet. Navigate trough landscapes, places and buildings. Currently possible for a few US cities and Beijing.

EveryTrail (www.everytrail.com)
A near perfect marriage between GPS, photography and Google Maps.

Extravigator (www.extravigator.com)
For the Bill Gates in you. The best (most expensive), hotels, spas, restaurants and destinations.

Farecast (www.farecast.com)
Very good flight and hotel search.

Faracompare (www.farecompare.com)
Search and compare flight prices.

Flagr (www.flagr.com)
Free map creation tool. Based on Google Maps.

Flightstats (www.flightstats.com)
Probably all the information you’ll ever need in terms of flight and flight related issues.

Geobeats (www.geobeats.com)
Videoguides.

Global Travel Blog (www.globaltravelblog.com)
Tips, reviews and travel stories upload by travelers. Blog format.

Grapheety (www.grapheety.com/grapheety/)
Maps and photos.

Gusto! (www.gusto.com)
Social travel. Huge amount of guides and reviews.

Hotelchatter (www.hotelchatter.com)
Hotel reviews. More than 9000 opinions. Gathers info from Booking.com.

HotelPriceFinder (www.hotelpricefinder.com)
Hotel search. You get your results from 30 sites simultaneously.

Hotels.com (www.hotels.com)
Famous hotel search service.

IgoUgo (www.igougo.com)
Tips, reviews, photography and stories. More than 5500 destinations reviewed. Social travel at it’s best. A great restaurant guide (http://www.igougo.com/food/) and very complete city guides.

Iloho (www.iloho.com)
Places social bookmarking.

Jumpclaimer (www.jumpclaimer.com/claim/start.jsp)
Map your trips trough SMS.

Kayak (www.kayak.com)
Flight search in more than 140 websites simultaneously. The Kayak Network: (kayak.com , sidestep.com , travelpost.com , travelsearch.com , kayak.co.uk , de.kayak.com, kayak.es, kayak.fr, kayak.it, Kayak Newsroom ).

Matador (www.matadortravel.com)
Social network for travellers.

Mobissimo (www.mobissimo.com)
Interesting, fast and useful search and compare system for flights.

Momondo (www.momondo.com)
“Don’t spend it on the night, splash it on the night”. Gathers info from more than 450 websites for flight search and proce comparison.

MP3Travel (www.mp3travel.com)
Audio travel guides (audioguides).

myTripBook (www.mytripbook.com)
Social Travel. Plan and partilhe your trip.

Paguna (www.paguna.com)
Hotel search and reservation. Made in Germany, lots of Ajax and an unusual look for a reservation website.One of the most interesting websites I found by making this list.

RealTravel (www.realtravel.com)
Social Travel. Reviews, photos and experience sharing. Excellent city maps section.

ReviewCenter - Airline Reviews (www.reviewcentre.com/products251.html)
Not a travel website but a good list of ratings on airlines.

Rrove (www.rrove.com)
Social bookmarking for places.

Schmap (www.schmap.com)
Simply amazing city guides. Lots of info, interactive maps and the possibility of downloading the maps to your Mac or PC. Get 200 maps (388MB) for free and use them offline. The guides are compatible with Windows OS (Vista, XP ou 2000) and Mac OSX (10.3.9 or later).

Surfline (www.surfline.com/travel)
Travel for surfers. Very interesting concept. Maps use of Google Maps.

Tagzania (www.tagzania.com)
Social bookmarking for places.

Thorn Tree Travel Forum (Lonely Planet) (www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree)
It’s not a 2.0 project but it’s a great source of info uploaded by users like you and me. The Lonely Planet forums are a huge and useful source of information on traveling.

Trabber (www.trabber.co.uk)
Flight search.

Travature (www.travature.com)
Social travel website.

TravelBlog (www.travelblog.org)
Many, many and many more blogs on travels and travelers. Create yours for free.

Traveler Videos (www.travelervideos.com)
Videos. A lot of professional content on more than 5800 videos.

Travelgator (www.travelgator.com)
“Planing your trip” made easy.

Travelistic (www.travelistic.com)
Videos by amateurs and professionals. Videoguides. More than 5500 videos.

TravellersConnected (www.travellersconnected.com)
Get in touch with users that live on your travel destination. Inside information.

TravelPod (www.travelpod.com)
Travel blogs. Start yours for free.

TravelPost (www.travelpost.com)
Reviews and ratings on USA hotels. A great Airport Wireless Guide where you can find info on wireless Internet on 219 US Airports. The same type of listing but for international airports and US hotel chains is also available.

TravNotes (www.travnotes.com)
Microblogging for travelers.

Trayle (www.trayle.com)
Travel planin. City and destination guides.

Trip Up (www.tripup.com)
An “has been” social travel website. Now you can read “Tripup is gone, sorry. Maybe you can use Facebook instead, it’s very popular.” on their frontpage. Made the list because… well it’s a funny statement!

TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com)
The biggest and meanest travelers comunity. Reviews, tips, guides and everything else. Trying to keep up with the 2.0 revolution.

Tripbase (www.tripbase.com)
Don’t get frustrated on deciding where to go. Tripbase will make you suggestions based on your “likes” and “dislikes”.

TripCart (www.tripcart.com)
A good planing site and source of city guides for those traveling to the US..

TripConnect (www.tripconnect.com)
Social travel. Share your experiences, reviews, etc.

TripHub (www.triphub.com)
Group and individual travel planing. More incidence on US market.

Tripntale (www.tripntale.com)
Unlimited space for your photos, videos and travel stories.

Triporama (www.triporama.com)
Planing and guide for group travel.

Triptie (www.triptie.com)
Social travel with a twist: Plan your travel by mixing the trip plans of pthers.

TripWiser (www.tripwiser.com)
Social travel. Gets some info from Wikipedia and Wikitravel.

Trivago (www.trivago.co.uk)
Reviews, photos and travel planing.

Trivop (www.trivop.com)
Got knowned for being the first videoguide for hotels. Lots of “Web 2.0″, doubts about it. 570 hotels visual guides available.

TVTrip (www.tvtrip.com)
A good hotel videoguide.

Unusual Hotels of the World Online Guide (www.uhotw.com)
A guide for the most extraordinary hotels in the world. Get ready to be amazed.

Vcarious (www.vcarious.com)
Travel guide, photography, videos and blogs. A very interesting photo section.

VeniVidiWiki (www.venividiwiki.eu)
Find places, events and activities with a little help from other users and a Google Map. Lots of layers available.

VirtualTurist (www.virtualtourist.com)
Social travel, opinions, experiences, reviews. Almost one million users.

VuelosBaratos (www.vuelosbaratos.es)
An excellent flight search and compare made in Spain.

WAYN (www.wayn.com)
Short for Where Are You Now. Social Travel website with more than 10 million users. A bit of everything. Foruns, blogs, photography, videos, maps and many other things for you to find out. A reference.

WheresYours (www.wheresyours.com)
A website for travelers that are also nature lovers.

Wikitravel (wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page)
Wiki for travel and travelers. Huge. More than 18000 guides in English.

World66 (www.world66.com)
A lot of information available. Nearly 80.000 articles from more than 20.000 destinations. Maps, attractions, photos, reviews, etc.

WorldWikia (world.wikia.com/wiki/World_Wikia)
A Wiki, not as big as Wikitravel. Still, nearly 9000 articles.

Yahoo! FareChase (farechase.yahoo.com)
Flight search by Yahoo!

Yahoo! Travel Guides (travel.yahoo.com)
Travel guides by Yahoo!.

Yahoo! Trip Planner (travel.yahoo.com)
Travel planing, city guides, photography and some reviews.

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