After a very long development (too long but hey what do you do when you are making something new up as you go?) Tourabout’s new travel platform is now in private beta. Community and Commerce are merged in a marketplace where you as travellers can connect to the expertise of travel companies to ask questions, find [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tourabout is in the running to win a prestigious Chrunchie award. We get told by many Tourabout users that Tourabout is one of their favourite places on the web. Now you can show your love by voting for us in the upcoming Chrunchie awards. The 2008 Crunchies is the second annual competition and award ceremony run by Techcrunch to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Media release. Tuesday October 18th 2008. Tourabout delivers EnterpriseAgent for Flight Centre. Consultant’s gain access to Tourabout’s powerful land product platform.
Continue reading...Sunday, June 10, 2007
Press Release from TravelScene American Express Travelscene American Express Agents get the edge with Tourabout EnterpriseAgent delivers online one-stop tour and packaged holiday search tool DATE 7/06/2007: Travelscene American Express agents are about to benefit from a world-first – Tourabout’s on-line system which allows them to match customers’ demands to thousands of tour and packaged holidays within seconds. Tourabout’s EnterpriseAgent [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The team at Tourabout have been building and commercialising travel technology for over a decade. Not because we have to but because we enjoy it and have become pretty good at it. Lately we’ve been a very busy bunch here working on a new piece of technology that will sit atop the content layer for travel [...]
Continue reading...A weekly or more rant, chat, post about our travels, our experiences and our business.
Our travel tidbits have been collected and distilled over years of meandering through backwaters, sitting in all manner of planes, trains and automobiles or a trusty dhoni. We've smoozed check-in staff, sneaked into frequent flyer lounges and generally hung out and asked the locals for the tips that make travelling more enjoyable, more comfortable or just more fun.
We hope you find something interesting or helpful and welcome your comments or suggestions.
Have you ever had dreams where you were flying? I have and they always looked a little like this, although maybe not as extreme.
Not a post about travel or Extreme tours although Norway is an amazing place to take yourself OnTour. This clip is just an amazing piece of scenery, cinematography and base jumping and flying skill.
Enjoy !! See in full screen
Cheers to Simon from PADI UK who sent this through.
Perfect surf, good people, easy living, I’d be here in a snap if there was no work to do.
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If you haven’t been to this amazing part of Australia, in the north west of Western Australia lies a place like no other on earth.
The Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia form a million square kilometres of extraordinary grandeur, colour and contrast. It has a balmy climate, breathtaking scenery, unique flora & fauna and adventure & cultural experiences. Holidays here will give you memories of a lifetime!
To give you an idea of some of the amazing places in the Kimberley take a look at this video from tour operator APT.
Monday, October 5, 2009
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