Snoweye.com catalogs 3,393 Web cams from 44 countries while www.skireport.com, www.onthesnow.com and www.snocountry.com also have directories of snow conditions, Web cams, weather forecasts and other winter vacation services.
And in August, www.Ski.com, a winter vacation travel service, introduced interactive 3D maps of 19 prominent resorts.
In recent months, JetBlue.com rolled out its first vacation package service, Marriott.com upgraded its vacations, and American Airlines added last-minute vacations to its mix of packages.
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Airbnb has seen astounding growth since opening for business in 2008, with the short-term vacation rental service active in 30,000 cities as of December 2012.
In recent days, the company has announced a dozen some new corporate partners, a handful of new sale formats to entice customers, and new distribution partnerships with high-profile sites like Kayak, The Economist and the vacation rental service HomeAway.
Expedia Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire the publicly traded vacation rental service HomeAway and its brands (including VRBO.com) for $3.9 billion in cash and Expedia common stock.
At its most basic, that means you can put a live visitor counter on your site, which seems to have worked well for vacation rental service Twiddy, for example.
While Airbnb may be the dominant home vacation rental service, there are others like VRBO, and managing those properties across multiple different platforms could require handling all of that information in something more analog like an Excel sheet.
