Kayak.com - A Great Service to Recommend to Your Guests
September 14th, 2007 by Carl Query carl@flipkey.comFor the average property manager, a guest booking a vacation home represents the end of the sales process. Congratulations! But for the average guest, the booking of their vacation home is just the beginning of their vacation planning. Next comes the flight, the rental car, the tickets, and all the other essential itinerary planning.
Enter Kayak.com. Kayak represents everything that is great about the internet - it’s quick, it’s comprehensive, and it is pretty much guaranteed to give you what you want. Kayak is different than Expedia and Orbitz. Kayak is what is called a “meta” search engine. Kayak’s charge is to search all other travel search engines to help the consumer find the best option. As such, the Kayak search engine covers more ground than all the other travel sites out there. Thus you are almost always assured of finding the cheapest flight.
Kayak is a great service to help your guests book the rest of their trip. Luckily, Kayak provides some simple tools that can allow you to extend its service to your own website. By simply copying and pasting some simple html into your site you can help your guests find a cheap flight and car rental service.
For one example:
Embedding a widget like this on your web site makes it very simple for your guest to begin their flight search. It costs nothing to add to your site and can help compliment your primary service (providing great lodging accommodations).
Since most vacation home sites are regional, you can even pre-populate Kayak’s tools with the airport nearest your vacation homes. Kayak offers several simple widgets you can embed on your website. Click here to see more options.
In addition to helping your guests, you can earn money by signing up for an affiliate id via linkshare. By inserting the id into the widget on your site, you can ensure you earn a commission on anybody you send to Kayak.
Your guests look to you as an expert. By providing them with easy access to the best-in-class tools on the internet, you are setting high standards that will keep guests coming back to you every year.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Hello,
I would also suggest a travel site called Trabber. Here is the address - http://www.trabber.com
December 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
[...] to Kayak.com, which we wrote about several months ago, Farecast is a “meta” search engine. Farecast provides “Smart Travel Search” by searching [...]
December 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Seems like Kayak just raised raised $196 million in financing led by Sequoia Capital and has merged with SideStep.com.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
[...] September we wrote about Kayak - a meta search engine that helps people find the cheapest flights. It was recently announced that Kayak would merge with SideStep - the #2 travel meta search [...]
April 24th, 2008 at 2:36 am
@dan
i also read that article about kayak.com.
its nice to hear that they raised $196million.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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