Travel Weekly Blog

There's a new travel start-up every day, but Zicasso is worth flagging up because it exploits the expertise of - gasp! - travel professionals.

Zicasso takes your trip requirements, pings them off to pre-approved agents and tour operators, and hits you with up to four costed itineraries. The whole thing takes a day or two.

Earlier this year I asked Travolution readers how small travel agencies with limited technology resources can sell their expertise to customers who can't or won't go along to a shop (here's my pick of some of the responses).

A service like Zicasso clearly isn't the whole answer, but couldn't it help?

(Via the Dot Tourism blog.)

Nathan Midgley, web producer