Archive for April, 2007

Mathieu

Beware of Bulls

I should have written: Beware of Bullfights Ticketing Services.

I’ll be in Madrid during La feria de San Isidro so it will be the perfect occasion for me to attend to a corrida (I won’t be a part of it for those who care!). I don’t know if I’ll like that, we’ll see!

While I was trying to buy tickets from www.taquillatoros.com, I realized that the form was not secure. Second time in a couple weeks that this problem happened to me, last time story is here : Online secure reservations.

Taquilla Toros is a partner of Ticket Master so I really had to go further to understand what is going on since I was sure Ticket Master pays a lot of attention to security. Finally, they do have a valid SSL certificate but since they didn’t use HTTPS to link to the form, it wasn’t secure.

What about you? You bought a SSL certficate but do you use it properly? ; )

Mathieu

Webby Awards Nominees

Here are the Webby nominees for Travel and Tourism categories.

Tourism

Sydney Wildlife World
http://www.sydneywildlifeworld.com

The Official Tourism New Zealand site for Destination New Zealand
http://www.newzealand.com/travel

Tourism Australia “Travel Australia”
http://travelaustralia.ninemsn.com

Vail Resorts: Resort Explorer
http://www.snow.com/resortexplorer

YellowstonePark.com
http://www.yellowstonepark.com

Travel

Expedia.com
http://www.expedia.com

Gods of Chinatown
http://gods.tenement.org

Kayak.com
http://www.kayak.com

TripAdvisor
http://www.tripadvisor.com

Wikitravel
http://wikitravel.org/

Congratulations to Evan (and friends!) from Wikitravel on their nomination… and good luck!

Mathieu

I Don’t Have Time to Lose

I’ve booked all hotels for my trip in Spain. When going from a hotel’s site to another, I’ve realized that I was looking for:
- The price.
- The services.
- The pictures.
- The location.

Easy isn’t it? For me, those 4 criterias should be easily accessible on every hotel website. I really don’t want to search for them.

Yesterday, while looking for an hotel in Granada, I’ve found: Hostal Meridiano in Granada.

Just try to take a look at the pictures. You’ll have to wait for them to appear and you can’t click on them to see them bigger. I got frustrated a bit. I didn’t have time to lose. I’ve left this website. I won’t book there.

In 20 seconds, they lost my business.

And by the way, this website is a perfect example of a non-friendly for search engines website. Just take a look at the source code. There is absolutely no content that search engines can index…

Read also : Adobe Flash is not a Friend of Search Engines

Mathieu

Spain in one Month

Today = A cold and a snowstorm in Quebec city.
Today + 31 days = Tapas and Xérès in Spain.

Wooouaaaaahhh!

I’ve sent an email to ollo@aircanada.ca to tell them about the language problem on their Comment Cards. It bounced. I’ve sent another one. It bounced another time.

Air Canada, où êtes-vous? (I hope you understand my question!)