Hotel comparators and why not to do them

[dougs]

As many know for over a year now we have been building a travel comparator, well after watching threads appear around the web from people trying to build them I thought I woudl write an overview. So here it is:

Comparator sites in travel and why they are so hard to build | Doug's mouthpiece

Please feel fre to stumble it
OR Digg it Digg - Travel comparators are hard to build

Doug

[csn]

Nice article. Certainly food for thought.

[Travel Pixel]

nice work and so true, price comparison in a market with fluctuating prices is tricky.

I feel your pain.

[dougs]

Hotels are a bloody nightmare

Flights and car hire we can live with.....hotels just as you thing you have it nailed a supplier changes the data

Doug
Comparison sites in travel and why they are so hard to build | Doug's mouthpiece

[dougs]

Now yell have tried to build one...its awful

Cheap Airline Tickets, Discount Hotels, Airfare, Cheap Flights, Air Travel - Yell.travel

Doug
Comparison sites in travel and why they are so hard to build | Doug's mouthpiece

[morleymouse]

would hardly call it a comparator! showing a load of logos

[philhancox]

That can't be the real Yell... they're showing the old fingers logo, the design is awful, the font for the Yell logo is wrong,there are no corporate links and Yell.com doesn't seem to link to it from first glance.
Someone should let Yell know that someone is trying to use their name or that the website is so bad it's making people like me think someone is trying to use their name!