“Tour de Suisse” is launched
September 16, 2008
We are very proud to announce that we have launched “Tour de Suisse”, a contest seeking to find the best touristic tours and activities in Switzerland. You may find it here !
Tour de Suisse offers to everyone living in Switzerland to post innovative and original tours that allow visitors to experience the country from a different perspective than when traveling on the standard touristic paths. The contest runs until November 15th and everyone can vote on the tours through an application that we designed on Facebook.
Facebook is a terrific social community that allows users to integrate APIs on their platform and make use of the powerful social graph. In our case users may create tours and then invite their friends to vote for them using Facebook. Once a friend cast a vote, the friends’ frind will see this in his/her newsfeed and may also vote for the tour. Thus, within few cycles, a creative and convincing entry to the contest may rise to the top of the competition and win one of our amazing prizes. Continue reading…
GetYourGuide in Hungary!
September 8, 2008
GetYourGuide has already gone many places, most notably we are very proud of all Chinese tours. However, there is always something new to discover and in this article, I would like to present to you our much appreciated guides from Hungary. As we are currently starting our Ambassador program, we are proud to introduce Andres Illes from Budapesttours, one of the first Ambassadors we were able to recruit!
Andres already has a variety of cool tours online and is about to get more Hungarian guides online within the next weeks. My favorite one so far is obviously the Holloko and Eger wine tour ;-)
Botellón Zürich
August 29, 2008
Currently standing in the middle of thousands of young persons at the lake of Zurich enjoying the friday evening with Johannes and his colleague. Today was my last day at GetYourGuide so Johannes and I had to go out to party a bit after a long day with little sleep.
Actually we’re experiencing web 2.0 globalization: a common event in Spain organized by young people found its way to Switzerland through facebook. Continue reading…
Summer in Switzerland
After a mixed start, it seems as we would finally still have a summer in Switzerland this year. The last days were almost cloud free and temperatures well in the 20s. I used the opportunity to go hiking last weekend and in this post I show some of the pictures I took. Continue reading…