Jauntlet.com - Your Interactive Travel Plan

Jauntlet.com offers members the opportunity to create a travel plan including maps, blogs, and sharing capabilities. After registering, users can view example plans and then design their own. This interactive format also allows for booking and travel updates. Jauntlet.com provides booking resources such as travelocity.com, Kayak.com, and hostelworld.com. These sites allow users to complare prices and do all bookings in one place. Flickr, a photo posting and sharing service is also involved and helps travelers to stay in touch with friends and family through their photos. Jauntlet.com is also a community space for travel lovers. Travelers can see who has been to specific destinations and who is living in their own city. These connections allow for advice and experience sharing which is extremely useful for serious travelers. Users can also add theur Juantlet to Blogger, TypePad, Facebook, MySpace, and other sites. Jauntlet.com additionally provides links to travel resource sites, news sites, and other personal websites.

¨Jauntlet is a free and easy-to-use tool for travelers that lets you create an interactive travel plan that you can use to book your journey and share it with maps and photos on many popular sites including Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, FaceBook, and MySpace.¨

This site could take off due to its links to other popular sites that people spend a lot of time on...doing nothing. For example, connections to facebook.com, myspace.com and other similar online communities are great because young people spend hours and hours looking at the screen waiting for something cool to do. Using maps is also a cool way to involve and excite users.

This site is not intriguing to the eye and seems to lack spice...traveling is about passion and this site needs to step it up. How will the site compete with the other sites that have the same things and more?