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A big day, ITB 2011 – Internationale Tourismusbörse Berlin opened its gates for about 12’000 professionals on March 9th, 2011. It will be another day of Fairquote launching 2035 German citypairs, all departures and direct flights from the 10 major airports in Germany.
The content for these Citypairs stems from Hitchhiker Travel GmbH, a well known travel consolidator and IT supplier. We also have updated the design and feature now FROM – From/to – and TO, a three column view.
Have a look at http://fra-lon.coop or for the lovers of less cryptic citypairs http://frankfurt-london.coop.
We also created a website specifically for German Citypairs called http://citypairs.de, and a wiki to contribute, at citypairs.wikia.com.
Your feed-back is most welcome.

As a first result, if the city pair is entered into the search box of Google, it comes up, mostly as No. 1. This is an encouraging result to have 120 million keywords in the right order.

Keep on going, Fairquote

Zurich Singapore ZRH SIN city pair is entered into the search box of Google

let’s change the world of travel search. You can register here and get a log-in to edit and maintain a live website, such as london-new york or boston- frankfurt. Make the site your own city pair. Become a fairquoter. Change the airline world and show better information. Start now, here….

The fvw Congress is the second most important German event (after ITB-Berlin) in travel. A number of key decision makers gathered this week in Cologne, to discuss trends, inventions and business. During the two-day workshops a number of interesting topics in travel came up and made it worth attending.

The Keynote-Session was about Google – Friend or enemy for tourism?

Stefan Tweraser, Country Director Germany/Austria/Switzerland made a speech introducing Google.  F. Scott Woods, Commercial director Facebook Germany came next with Social networks – a travel sales channel?  Not really revealing. Hotel evaluations – a winner for everyone was presented by Jörg Trouvain, managing director Holidaycheck. This is a train hard to stop.

All in all Europe’s network carriers take off with Merchandising 2.0, and Mobile business gets moving. The discussion on Flight data – Google’s ITA Deal and the consequences was a discussion with David Friderici (Hitchhiker), Hans-Joachim Klenz (Ypsilon Net) and Alexander von Koslowski (DER). They ran a bit late and short, given the fact that Stefan Tweraser had little information to give away as well.

Winfried Boeing
President Fairquote Cooperative

- one touch travel -

three months after its initial release of the fairquote newsletter, we issued the newsletter no 2-

here we go – enjoy reading the hot fairquote newsletter 2.

Last joke:

hot in the press was the Iceland’s last will – “after my financial death – put my ash over Europe”

The IPAD is a new toy for us, and certainly arrived at the right moment. Nothing looks better than a city-pair webpage on that device, and our slogan Fairquote is “one-click travel” is not really applicable any longer. We need to consider calling it “one-tap travel”, and the IPAD will be in the hall of fame for a great invention.

See the Fairquote launch video in action – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_HXEONVpzo

we have been looking for some tools, and here it is, a template for one of the city pair websites.

City-Pair Info Website

Fairquote’s main page will be shortly getting another facelift in order to have the expected numbers of visitors informed by good content.

Fairquote cooperative, the provider of a new distribution channel for travel, is opening its first city-pairs for the public.  Starting April 15, 2010, consumers can see a radically new display for comparing flights, hotels and other travel offers. The difference is the depth and quality of information provided. Each website concentrates of travel between two cities – thus calling it a “city-pair”.