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ISSN 1460-7239 2nd March 2000 No.57
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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
"Travel related websites"
By Lynn Temple
BOOKSHELF
"Electronic Commerce -
Strategies and models for business to business trading"
Reviewed by Margaret Morrison
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"Travel related websites"
By Lynn Temple
The candlestick maker is already extinct. The butcher and the baker
heading that way. The travel agent may be next for the chop. Booking
travel online is becoming easier daily as airlines, hotel chains and
tour operators gradually adapt to the new selling medium. I have
covered sites in this article where online booking is a feature. Many
travel sites offer online brochures, but still require a phone call or
visit to the travel agent when it comes to booking.
Air Travel
Many airlines offer online booking facilities. These include Virgin
<http://www.virgin-atlantic.com>, TWA <http://www.twa.com>, United
Airlines <http://www.ual.com>, Delta <http://www.delta-air.com> and
Continental <http://www.continental.com> for transatlantic flights.
But better deals can be found by going to online flight shops such as
ebookers <http://www.ebookers.com>, deckchair
<http://www.deckchair.com>, Cheapflights <http://www.cheapflights.co.uk>
and Airtickets Direct <http://www.airtickets.co.uk>.
These all cover the major airlines. For budget European flights, Go
<http://www.go-fly.com>, Ryanair <http://www.ryanair.com>, Easyjet
<http://www.easyjet.co.uk> and Buzz <http://www.buzzaway.com>. All
offer good deals and cover an ever-expanding range of destinations.
Hotels
There are many web-based hotel-booking agents. The France Hotel Guide
<http://www.globe-market.com> is an excellent site for French hotels.
It is easy to use and offers a wide variety of hotels in all
categories throughout France. Hotel Denmark
<http://www.hotel-denmark.com> is another good site with links to
hotels in other Scandinavian countries. In both these cases
reservations were confirmed within 12 hours. The British Hotel
Reservation Centre <http://www.bhrc.co.uk> has many London
hotels on its site but none in the rest of the UK despite claims to
the contrary. Online companies such as Hotel Hotel
<http://www.hotelhotel.co.uk> and 123 Go <http://www.123-go.org> have
online enquiry forms: submit the city you wish to stay in and they
will respond with suitable hotels. Room Service
<http://www.room-service.co.uk> has small, family run hotels in
Western Europe.
Hotel Chains have adapted enthusiastically to the web. The Hilton
<http://www.hilton.com> chain has special offers online and will email
value rates every week on request. Sheraton <http://www.sheraton.com>
for worldwide reservations and Travelodge
<http://www.travelodge.co.uk> for the UK are two more of the many
chains offering online booking. Worth a mention also is
Intercontinental <http://www.interconti.com> which has good weekend
offers in luxury hotels, such as the Carlton in Cannes.
Rail Travel
What do Richard Branson and my 21 year old son have in common? Neither
of them likes Sunday mornings. While trying to book a ticket on Virgin
trains <http://www.virgintrains.co.uk> for a Sunday morning journey
from Lancaster to London I discovered that the first train of the day
is at 15.05. Sunday daytrips to the capital from the North are ruled
out! I booked a ticket through thetrainline.com
<http://www.thetrainline.com> - you can also find out times and reserve
seats for any train operator in the UK mainland. It is easy to use
and the tickets arrived the next day. For rail travel in the UK this
site is all you need as few individual operating companies have online
booking facilities, or if they do, it is usually via the
trainline.com. Eurostar <http://www.eurostar.com> can be booked online
but requires registration.
European rail companies have yet to offer online booking for UK
residents but sites such as European Rail
<http://www.europeanrail.com> and Eurorail <http://www.eurorail.com>
are useful for timetables and fares.
Last Minute
Many hotel chains offer good deals if you can travel at short notice.
LateRooms <http://www.laterooms.com> has good package deals as well
as UK hotel rooms for the following week. It is possible to register
for a regular newsletter giving bargains. Their 'Holiday Helper'
will find you the ideal break once you have submitted your
requirements. Global hotel rooms are soon to be added to the site.
Open World <http://www.openworld.co.uk> is a worldwide luxury hotel
search engine offering good deals. Webflyer.com
<http://www.webflyer.com> is a roundup of last minute deals,
supposedly to save the trouble of scrolling through them all. At the
moment, however, it is limited to a small number of hotel chains .QXL
<http://www.qxl.com> operates an online auction system for last minute
holidays and flights if you are prepared to undergo the tedium of
bidding. Lastminute.com <http://www.lastminute.com> has numerous
offers throughout the world.
Destination Guides
Many well-known travel guides have a web presence although the
information they provide is sometimes limited compared to the original
books. This is true for example in the case of Rough Guides
<http://www.roughguides.co.uk> and Timeout <http://www.timeout.com>.
Fodor's <http://www.fodors.com> covers numerous destinations in detail
and also provides an online talking phrasebook in German, Spanish,
Italian and French. Lonely Planet <http://www.lonelyplanet.co.uk>
offers downloadable city guides, although this service is limited at
the moment. The Association Of National Tourism
<http://www.antor.com> has links to UK representatives of Tourist
offices worldwide. These sites offer much information about the
countries and UK tour operators operating there. This site also links
to some tourist boards.
Self Catering
European self-catering is not easy to book online although many
companies accept email reservations. There are, however a number of UK
companies who offer online booking facilities. Cumbrian Cottages
<http://www.cumbrian-cottages.co.uk>, Lakelovers
<http://www.lakelovers.co.uk> and Red Rose Cottages
<http://www.redrosecottages.co.uk> cover the North West.
In Scotland, Discover Scotland <http://www.discoverscotland.net> and
Houses in Scotland <http://www.scothols.co.uk> offer possibilities.
In Wales, Wales Cottage Holidays <http://www.wales-holidays.co.uk>
have many properties on offer. Town and Country Cottages
<http://www.ukcottages.co.uk> covers Somerset, the Cotswolds the Wye
Valley and Herefordshire and Recommended Cottages
<http://www.recommended-cottages.co.uk> cover the whole UK.
Those in search of something a little different might like to try
Footprint Adventures <http://www.footprint-adventures.co.uk>, which
offers Wildlife holidays worldwide. This is a good, informative site.
Travelbag Adventures <http://www.travelbag-adventures.co.uk>
specialises in small group holidays off the beaten track. The Ecodive
site <http://www.diveguideint.com/ecodive> provides an international
diving guide with links to tour operators.
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Lynn Temple worked for many years in Music Education until she
discovered the web! She now works with her husband Peter a financial
writer and web guru. Together they form Peter Temple Associates. They
both enjoy travelling. All the sites mentioned here can be reached at
<http://www.linksitetravel.com>. Lynn can be contacted at
<lynn@ptassoc.u-net.com>.
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"Electronic Commerce -
Strategies and models for business to business trading"
Reviewed by Margaret Morrison
Paul Timmers' book published last October analyses strategic
marketing approaches on the basis of both marketing theory and
international case studies. Its systematic study of Internet commerce
models should allow any company to better organise their business and
understand where their sources of revenue come from. It offers an
assessment of a rapidly growing area, covering current models and
showing how they have fared in practice. The book also provides an
analytical assessment of the marketplace for business-to-business
electronic commerce strategies and includes recommendations for the
implementation of a marketing strategy for business-to-business
e-commerce.
The area of e-commerce projected to generate the most enormous
revenues, despite all the press hype about the business to consumer
market (Amazon, Lastminute.com and so on), is the business to
business market. It is an incredibly fast-moving area where a new
idea can transform the whole structure of the "real world" business.
There are eight case studies in this volume, of which an impressive
four are European companies: a fact which should not surprise us as
Mr Timmers is head of sector in the European Commission,
Directorate-General XIII, in the Information Technologies Directorate.
He is thus directly involved in shaping the future of European
e-commerce policy. While the US/global case studies (such as FedEx)
are fairly well known and have been cited before, it is good to see
less well known examples such as Infomar, a trading and auction
system in the fishing trade. This is an example of where the
real-world industry can be transformed by the implementation of such
systems: real-time trading in the product can actually mean in
theory that the feedback the fishermen receive could result in an end
to overfishing - they would not catch more than they knew they
could sell.
Infomar is also an example of involvement in e-commerce development
by the European Commission - it was originally a pilot project in the
ESPRIT program run by Mr Timmers. This does of course mean there is
a great depth of information in the case study; other companies
however are equally well represented, with if anything less
emphasis on the more well known examples.
Another effect of the author's day job I presume is the interest in
the effect of e-commerce on competition and barriers to entry, some
useful thoughts on cross-European standards to facilitate trading, and
a comparative look at the state of regulation in the EU and the USA.
One of the most helpful features of this book is the flexible
approach to forecasting the future of B2B e-commerce: Mr Timmers is
well aware of the fast-changing nature of the industry and the
difficulties in relying on market research: he therefore analyses
models and highlights trends rather than making overly specific
predictions. This enables the reader to better understand the likely
impact of new developments as they occur. Sections I would
particularly recommend are those on disintermediation and on the
convergence of B2B and B2C markets.
Mr Timmers' hot tip? One to one marketing has not reached it's full
potential. My hot tip? If you can't plough through the whole book,
the last two pages are a useful summary - and don't miss out on the
case studies.
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Margaret Morrison is a Knowledge Specialist in the area of
Electronics and High-Tech for Andersen Consulting. She provides
secondary research in this area, more and more of which now focuses
on e-commerce. She is also so keen on e-commerce she even runs her
own e-business in her spare time - selling American candy
at <http://www.cybercandy.co.uk>.
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"Chemistry Webzines - How to find the right news for you"
By John Buckingham and Jenny Drey
The problem facing all of us these days is how to locate that small
percentage of valuable and interesting material on the Web.
Chemists, like everyone else, need to be kept up-to-date with the
latest in their field. Most of us know which print publications fit
the bill. However, there are a growing number of publications now on
the Web, which (claim to) serve the same purpose as the longer-
established print media. But exactly what is there on offer, and how
do you locate it? And what advantages, if any, do the online media
hold over the print media?
Several of the sites covered here, including some of the more
successful ones, are electronic equivalents of print products. One
legitimate function of such sites is to raise awareness of the print
version and to generate more print subscriptions, and to do this the
main requirements are that the website should be at least as well
designed as the print equivalent, and generate interest in the news
stories and other content. Some sites are over-proprietorial,
restricting access to their data. It is difficult to see the
justification for this restrictive attitude, which seems to spring
from an overvaluation by the site owners of the information the site
contains, and of the level of interest the average browser might have.
New Scientist
<http://www.newscientist.com/>
This website has clearly been designed to mimic as far as possible the
printed version and to attract further readers, which it does
admirably. Colour headlines attract the browser, and crosslinks are
provided to related stories. The selection of articles and their
content are well chosen so as to generate a high degree of interest
whilst not giving away everything that is in the print version.
There are also valuable web-only features, including a job vacancy
register and fully-searchable archive of hundreds of questions and
answers on general science. You can search the associated Planet
Science site, which is an archive of about 1/3rd of the material that
appears in the printed version. A good compromise between holding
users' interest and giving away everything for free on the Web.
The sole, and major, disadvantage for chemist users of this site is
the low level of the chemical information presented. Most of the best
stories do not concern chemistry at all.
Rating: Design A; Functionality B; Topicality A;
Quality of Information C; Relevance to chemists D.
Today's Chemist At Work (ACS)
<http://pubs.acs.org/journals/tcwoe7/index.html>
The 'About the Magazine' link stated this is 'The industrial chemist's
personal handbook for on-the-job success'.
The content was variable. An article by Steve Heller had useful
working hotlinks. However, other articles were much less impressive,
with a lot of scope for such links, which had not been installed.
You can also search all ACS journals from this site, but downloading
them requires credit card payment or subscription to the Web edition.
A sample search on Stereochemistry in title retrieved 162 documents;
although the search bar says 'all years', in fact titles were only
retrieved back to 1996.
A fairly useful site, but sweeping claims are made which are not
matched by reality.
Rating: Design B; Functionality B; Topicality B;
Quality of information B; Relevance to chemists B.
Chemical and Engineering News (ACS)
<http://pubs.acs.org/cen/index.html>
Access to the current issue is restricted to subscribers of the print
edition, and you have to enter your ACS membership number. My number
did not work - it is necessary to register your interest to receive
access to the electronic version, although this is nowhere stated on
the home page.
Access to certain features containing pdf files required acroread.exe,
and no facility was provided to download this from the site, as is
usually the case.
Having said this, once you gain access to the site the editorial
content is good (more interesting than the printed magazine, and up-
to-date).
There is a bias in content towards corporate news stories and ACS
corporate matter, such as conference calendars and abstracts, although
it is not possible even to read the full content of a conference
abstract without a subscription. The written articles had good
graphics and useful hotlinks, for example from an article on TRI
emissions there was a link to the Chemical Manufacturers' Association
homepage. However, in this respect a learned society such as the ACS
can be criticised for being too much in the pocket of industry - where
are the hotlinks to environmental groups' homepages?
Rating: Design B; Functionality B; Topicality A;
Quality of information C; Relevance to chemists A.
BioPharm Magazine Online
<http://www.biopharm-mag.com/>
This site has a good feel, but falls down on topicality. The areas of
information covered are more at the biochemical/life sciences end of
chemistry.
There were a few innovative and user-friendly features, and an
extensive calendar of events, and pharmaceutical industry stock
quotes.
Two features that were looked at emphasised the lack of topicality.
Past Features and Book Reviews were last updated a year ago. There is
no online ordering facility (such as Amazon) provided.
An attractive site for a major potential user group, but it falls down
badly on delivery.
Rating: Design B; Functionality B; Topicality E;
Quality of information C; Relevance to chemists C.
Chemical Engineering
<http://che.com/>
Another site corresponding to a print magazine.
The well-designed home page branches into;
(1) Features. Reasonably well-written, from the printed version on
topics such as Y2K compliance and corporate espionage. References in
these articles are few, and not clickable, throwing you back to the
print version for further information, so not a lot of value was added
by having a web version.
(2) News items called 'Chementators'. This is a useful service for
anyone whose interests lie in chemical engineering/process
development.
(3) New products and services. This section was mediocre (and out-of-
date) - if you should happen to need a BB300 jaw crusher from F. Kurt
Reisch GmbH in Germany, no contact name, address, telephone number or
email address is given.
In general this site gave indications of expectations exceeding
performance. Many links did not work. There is a calendar section
which is only accessible from the 'last issue', and when seen most of
the events were already past.
Rating: Design C; Functionality D; Topicality C;
Quality of information C; Relevance to chemists C.
Chem Bytes (RSC)
<http://chemsoc.org/gateway/chembyte/chembyt3.htm>
This comes closer than any of the sites already mentioned to being a
useful resource for mainstream chemists. Its best feature is a web-
based database of databases, the Chemistry Resource Locator, which
contains direct links to some useful resources. Included in these
resources are a large number of specialist RSC information sites, such
as Focus on Organic Dyes and Colours (monthly, but the most recent
issue on the web was 6 months old).
This web page links in to the main RSC home page which leads on to
information about RSC products, information and services. In general,
a valuable resource but with a rather dull and bureaucratic feel, and
few graphics. A good place to start for routine factual information,
but not inspiring.
Rating: Design E; Functionality D; Topicality C;
Quality of information B; Relevance to chemists A.
Chemical Week
<http://www.chemweek.com/>
The home page leads to a wide range of potentially useful features,
such as conferences, trade shows and directories. However, it lists
only conferences organised by Chemical Week (only 10). The directories
page is useful, covering a range of different topics, from each page
of which you can download an Acrobat pdf file.
For four of the services (index of back issues, buyer's guide,
Executive Edition and product focus), it is necessary to register. The
home page says 'register once only for all', but in fact it means
'register once only for each'. The Executive Edition contained a dozen
or so of the usual type of business news information items such as
'Church and Dwight Acquires Majority Stake in Brazilian Partner'.
Overall, a reasonable site of the business-magazine type.
Rating: Design C; Functionality B; Topicality B;
Quality of information C; Relevance to chemists C.
Chemistry & Industry
<http://ci.mond.org/>
Again, this website corresponds to a print publication. Chemistry &
Industry is an interesting and well-written magazine, so expectations
were high. Initial impressions were good. The home page is jazzy and
attractive without being trivialising.
The website is announced as 'A twice-monthly roundup of international
and interdisciplinary news features, comments and views', covering
chemistry and a number of good interrelated areas. It does not contain
everything that is in the printed version and in general the content
is fairly sketchy. It includes useful features such as a job search
service.
This site sadly falls down on topicality and depth of content,
however. The jobs page held only 4 jobs, the deadline for two having
already passed. The conference timetable only includes conferences
organised by Chemistry & Industry. The magazine archive did not
contain anything more recent than 1997.
All in all a great disappointment and unlikely to attract regular
users.
Rating: Design A; Functionality D; Topicality E;
Quality of information D; Relevance to chemists B.
Reed Magazines Online
<http://www.reedchemicals.com/>
A large site giving access to Reed chembusiness journals; European
Chemical News, Asian Chemical News, Asia Pacific Chemical, Performance
Chemicals International, Chemical Insight.
Performance Chemicals International was well presented and features
such as the conference calendar were up-to-date. Hotlinks worked, and
this gave access to information and product prices for a number of
chemical companies. However, the 'Editorial Programme' in fact gave
access only to article titles, leaving you to take out a print
subscription or request a sample copy just to find out if the article
is really of interest to you. Asian Chemical News and Chemical Insight
were even more heavily restricted, and accessible over the Web only to
print subscribers or those requesting a free sample print copy.
Again, to sample Chemical News and Intelligence, you have to register
and fill in an extensive form -then 'someone will contact you by
phone/email to arrange your free trial'- too restrictive for a mere
browser.
Rating: Design B; Functionality B; Topicality A;
Quality of information D; Relevance to chemists D.
The Alchemist
<http://chemweb.com/alchemist/>
At last! A home page that looks as if it is designed by and for
chemists rather than industrial managers or bureaucrats. This is the
webzine of ChemWeb.com, the virtual community for chemists. How nice
to see some pure chemistry detail as part of the well thought-out
comment in some of the news stories. The news items on the opening
page are a lively mixture of pure chemistry research advances, applied
chemistry, and quirky 'side-issue' items.
Updated daily, each news item has hotlinks to related stories,
websites and ChemWeb.com-wide search results. The conference diary is
reasonably up-to-date, though not particularly extensive (although it
does link in to the full ChemWeb.com Conference Diary which lists
hundreds of chemistry events worldwide).
There is also a Conference Reporter, providing online updates direct
from worldwide chemistry events, as well as a Job Exchange. The book
reviews section contained some extremely well-written reviews by
subject specialists.
If this site can be criticised, it is that it casts its net very
widely outside chemistry, and in the search to stay lively, includes
items of peripheral interest. It is a tricky balance to hit, but the
writers give the strong impression that they are moving in the right
directions.
The Alchemist is a pure webzine, not a marketing vehicle for a print
product, and therefore has no reason to hold back any information from
the reader. The news is updated daily, and it's all free.
Rating: Design B; Functionality A;. Topicality B;
Quality of information B; Relevance to chemists A.
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Dr John Buckingham is Consultant Editor for the Dictionary of Natural
Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds and other dictionaries in
the Chapman & Hall/CRC CD-ROM electronic series (soon to be available
on the Web). He joined Chapman & Hall to establish this series in
1980, and before that was lecturer in organic chemistry at London
University. He can be reached via <jbuckingham@crcpress.com>.
Jenny Drey is a freelance writer/marketing consultant who has worked
in the publishing/information industry for nearly 15 years, in a range
of different areas including general publishing and scientific,
technical and medical. Her particular interest lies in electronic
publishing and primarily the Internet.She can be contacted at
<jenny.drey@dial.pipex.com>.
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