not a bad idea dude...I like it.

This angle is good - do you know if another site does it?

If not I think this has got potential :)

This is a money saver - MANY people like saving money ;)

Vote +1

I think that this is a great idea and implementation shouldn't be that difficult. Really like the idea of being able to input my preferences e.g. horseback riding and getting a list of potential destinations that fit the criteria

I worked in the UK travel sector for many years, and this one of the things I always wanted to do. I know there companies in the UK working on this idea, but they wont be operating in North America, which I guess is your initial market.

Good luck!

I love this idea. I have like 500,000 frequent flyer miles on different airlines. I would love to be able to figure out where I can go with them.

Neat idea. The nice thing about travel sites is the demand for them never really decreases all that much.

I know my idea is a mix of multi ideas but I am leaning mostly towards the budget aspect of it and making it easy to use.

I'm sure the first guy that decided he was gonna sell bottled water had his knockers!

Very Awesome idea, definately vote for this one!!

I recently experienced this frustration too - I must have spent 3hrs on Kayak.com entering Calgary to (every location possible). Searching the other way around (with a budget) makes way more sense to me. Great idea!

I like this idea. However, how many users have are there who approach a travel site without knowing where they want to go first? It seems like a very small market.

I love it. even though I think you stole my idea.

The only thing missing is the flexibility of travel dates.

haha No my idea was submitted
Sep 12, 2006
Almost 3 months before you
but yeah great idea, great minds think alike!

I like the idea of this twist on the search criteria. Often I just want to get away for a weekend and facilities and price are more key criteria not necessarily destination.

Excellent idea! I have the same problem with current travel sites. It's slow and frustrating, when it should be streamlined. Customers buy when it's seamless.... Good job!

Great idea. This would be ideal for those of us that want to take a trip but dont have hours and days to put into researching costs, destinations and activities all over the internet. It sounds like the ultimate one stop shop for your travel needs :)

Superb, hard to find a better 2.0 idea really, the more we cross reference data the better decisions we'll be able to make.

There's also the potential for a green angle on this, send me a mail if you'd like more details.

I'm always plan trips based on price and something like this is exactly what I've been wishing for.

even, when i'm not travelling I often daydream on far I could go with the coin i have. I think the ability to see what my options are would motivate me to travel more.

I can certainly see this being a great motivator to buy tickets, especially in the under $500 range.

I often hate finding only package deals including hotels when I only wish to the price of the flight.

I would certainly use this service if it was available and It would been an excellent incentive to buy tickets.

Inventory in the travel industry is currently organised mostly on destination (and it is a logical way to organise frankly as sooner or later the customer has to be in the same place as the inventory - room, tour, flight - to enjoy it). It forces the user to do the complex decision making "offline" therefore. Your idea is a popular one within the travel industry but the existence of legacy systems (for example the old skool military grade robust but slow moving GDS flight distribution systems) means it's been difficult to achieve.
It's worked better in lighter, newer areas like excursions (which also happen to be quite high margin too - perhaps 40% whilst flights are hard to make money on as an agent).
I think a progressive search feature is the key really, which will require the inventory to be "tagged" with many things...(eg time from now, any weekend, distance from point in hours, in miles, rooms with 3 beds, pet friendly, child friendly, available, not available and so on..). A tagging system to ALL travel inventory like (perhaps in concert with the Open Travel alliance) could possibly allow progressive search/filter engines like Endeca to do their stuff on travel and then we would finally have moved beyond forcing people to choose a destination first...
Good luck..It's a big idea but hard to move the industry and hard to capture the value (as in the absence of it, people are forced to make these decisions themselves and have to do so)..

Superb idea! If it can be customized for national, regional and provincial itineraries, then accounts can be sold to local travel agencies. Combine it with TechGuy's Marketing Mob and the crowd will be very happy.

Yeah I do like this idea. It does have merit. The travel industry is an interesting one as there are many round the world travellers who like to book everything before they go... still tourists.. and then a niche market who like to turn up and see what happens and this would be a great site for that sort of audience and also, as is mentioned, those who just want to type in their details, see what fits and go.

I certainly think that the travel industry is realising that these mix and match concepts are the way forward and are starting to build them into their website, one such company is STA Travel. Check out http://www.statravel.com

Nice work, Pete. You and I could certainly hook up our ideas in the future!

that is wonderful

I was just online trying to find where to go this weekend and was just wishing for this function. Here's my budget, my days of travel, what are my options? Excellent idea.

what a fantastic idea. This would be perfect for young adults, newlyweds who need to save money, families, people on fixed incomes - awesome!

pretty good.. i like it for sure...btw have u worked it yet?

I'm with you! I would love a user friendly central location to do this...right now I have to go to:

- Travelocity
- exit.ca
- expedia
- hotels.com
- priceline.com
- kayak
etc....

I also find that I end up telling my agents (yes I need more than 1) where to find the deals and more often than not they have restrictions or policies that prevent them from booking them directly

I find these 1 to many relationships with agents and web sites very difficult to manage and maintain :) But maybe I'm just high maintenance :)

BOOK YOUR OWN ADVENTURE, BE YOUR OWN GUIDE!!!!

I really like it but what keeps the other competing sites from implementing this reverse destination search feature as well?

Get to it man! I want to use the site.