Hotel and Travel Deals Blog

UpTake’s Elliott Ng interviewed our CEO, Sam Shank, at the TravelCom 2009 conference. Check out Elliott’s handiwork!

Sam Shank – CEO/Founder of DealBase.com from UpTake Networks on Vimeo.

Budget Travel’s Sean O’Neill mentions us at about 2:32, in this CNN segment on recession-busting travel tips that aired this morning.

Today, social media heavyweight Mashable posted a nice summary of us. They also tweeted us, which means that a lot of their followers got to check out our site. Kinda neat to see the response!

Over on the BNET Travel Industry blog, The Cranky Flier’s Brett Snyder shares insights from his years working for the airlines. Guess what, he’s also at the 2008 Travel Innovation Summit and shares his initial thoughts on DealBase.com.:

“The difference is that they’re trying to give you more filtering and comparison options so that the consumer can try to figure out what is actually a deal and what isn’t.”

What I always appreciate when I read Brett’s articles is that he understands both the business perspective, from having been in the industry, as well as the consumer viewpoint. He has some additional observations about what this means for the travel suppliers, as well.

Tim Hughes, a veteran of the online travel industry and author of The Business of Online Travel blog, listed DealBase.com in his Top Six pick of 2008 PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit finalists.

We may be a little biased in our agreement with Tim’s choices, but in particular, we concur with his observation that comes from being a player in any industry with upstarts and established companies:

“The test of innovation is an idea that no-one else thought of that has been executed well.”

That’s the challenge that we and our peers at this show are up against. Bring it on, we say!