TripTouch is to launch travel widget for Netvibes and iGoogle, especially useful for frequent travelers and / or travelers during a trip.

Published: 27 May 2008

TripTouch is to launch travel widget for Netvibes and iGoogle, especially useful for frequent travelers and / or travelers during a trip.

According to the company, the widget is updated automatically to the user location and it features updated local information and services for more than 5,000 destinations worldwide.

The widget includes travel guides, activities, restaurants, current events, accommodation, transportation, weather, currency rates, nearby travelers and more. For many services online booking is available.

"We launched our travel homepage last November," said Gil Ruda, TripTouch's co-founder and CEO. "We've got good reviews and our travel community is growing. Now we thought that we could use our platform to serve our users and new audiences in more ways, and we've decided to develop a widget for start pages."

Currently the TripTouch platform aggregates and integrates content from several sources on the web such as Wikitravel (travel guides), eventful (worldwide events) , Google maps, Kayak (transportation), Priceline (hotels), OpenTable (restaurants), Viator (activities), Sportsevents365, HostelWorld.

Based in Tel Aviv, TripTouch LTD operates two websites: www.triptouch.com (the travel home page) and www.cafetouch.com (internet cafe directory).