The end of year long holiday has ended. A lot of DailySocial loyal readers probably spent holidays with the family at home or with relatives. There might even be DailySocial readers that spent their vacation in the east of Indonesia or abroad. But although the holiday is over, however it still alright for us to see some local services that provide services relating to travelling.
This article is a brief list of local services that may help you on your activities related to travelling. We categorize the list based on four categories:
1. Hotel Reservations
Travel activities can’t be separated from the hotel reservation. This is where DailySocial loyal readers make hotel reservations when travelling. Some time ago, Amir has wrote in DailySocial about some local hotel reservation services that have started to squirm. Here are some local hotel reservation services like Tiket.com, Wego.co.id, GoIndonesia.com, RajaKamar.com.
2. Airline Ticket Reservations
Aligned with hotel reservations, travel activities couldn’t be separated from the transportation as well. With the increase of passengers from various social classes (especially the upper middle class), you might find many online ticket reservation services popping up. The features which are widely used and needed by passengers are an online ticket reservation service that may compare freight from various airlines and an online ticket reservation. Ticket reservation services online that you might use are: Tiket2.com, Yuktravel.com, TiketDomestik.com, BakoelTiket.com, and Tiket.com (but airline ticket on Tiket.com currently unavailable).
3. Tour Packages
One of the things that is required by DailySocial readers is tour package to the specific tourist destination. Within last two years, there are some companies that offers these kinds of services. There are two daily deal services that are offering tour packages in the travelling segment that may help you arrange your vacation. The services are Valadoo.com and VoucherBali.com. Other services that offer tour package are TourExplora.com and YukTravel.com. However the most anticipated startup in this area is Jelajah.me, a crowd funding site in the travel niche. Currently they still release alpha stage service to the public. They plan to release their full service before the end of this year. Jelajah.me also became one of the winner in SparxUp Awards 2011.
4. Directory/Travel Information Portal
When we are doing travelling, another important thing needed is the information and the reference about the visited destination. Some local providers are serving via various forms such as portals, directories and social media that specifically address the travel segment. Some portals and directories that you can use as a reference are Urbanesia.com (for Jakarta), YogYes.com (for Yogyakarta), BandungReview.com (for Bandung) , VisitSemarang.com (for Semarang) and ePalembang.com (for Palembang). If you need to find the reference or information about the destination that you will visit, you may try to use social media that specialize about travelling activities such as Koolred.com and TrackPacking.com.
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Above are the brief list (summaries) that may help your travelling activities. Although there are still many services that we haven’t mentioned yet, however the list are able to represent the information needed for travelling. So, for the next holiday season, where do you plan your holiday destination?