{"id":1126,"date":"2016-02-04T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2016-11-24T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:13:02","slug":"new-holiday-planner-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/new-holiday-planner-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"New Holiday Planner Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados launches new Visual Holiday Planner matching travelers with\u00a0 hotels on personality affinity. With years of studying travelers shopping behavior, likes and choices, and fitting that back in our earlier experience with the RealHolidays matchmaker technology which we developed over several years, we have produced a fun new way to find hotels and holiday experiences based on your personality<\/p>\n<p>Users of the holiday planner at <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\">holidays.barbados.org<\/a> are profiled based\u00a0 on data gathered over years; we interpret clicks with behaviours and predict personality types which are all are part of\u00a0 our proprietary matchmaker database continually fined tuned with user experience.\u00a0 Over time the\u00a0 database of hundreds of choices and options are aligned over 30 different personality traits and matched with a history of best choices based on experience and local expert knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>See details on the website and the first video for one category..<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fx4aHWwHeK8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>See video and description at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fx4aHWwHeK8<\/p>\n<p>So far we have compiled 6 different personalities based on our experience.<br \/>\nWe call them the travel-cats, varying from aristocats to frugalcats, and now in this video we have gathered a collection for the independent types &#8211; the indicat.<\/p>\n<p><!---Our number one hotel choice for these indicats is the CRANE RESORT. A very special resort away from the hustle and bustle of touristy areas, The Crane offers fully self contained accommodation with several restaurants, pools, a piano bar, shopping, serenity spa, and one of the best beaches in the world. Naturally we are using the very best rates and specials to offer a luxury independent holiday that is spacious, comfortable with all the conveniences of home including a family size kitchen. As an alternative Little Good Harbour is a small scale retreat where you can have your own cottage villa in a fine resort setting. For the frugal indicats Nautilus Beach Apartments may be the best deal in the Caribbean. All fully self catering, on the beach, and loved by independent minded people.---><\/p>\n<p>The system displays guests profiles and allows them to modify it which all adds to fine tuning the experience.\u00a0At the end the users may revert back to the the full selection and fine tune it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>If our top picks do not suit the traveler&#8217;s needs, the planner will pick the next best category &#8211; in this case the authentic resorts that have lots of local character. These are the rustic cats and the accommodation is delightful.<\/p>\n<p>The full planner is just a click away and you can press a few buttons to quickly change the personality settings and easily create your own very exclusive category.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Try it out at<a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\"> http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want a shorter list by personality try <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/indicat\/\">indicat<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/rusticat\/\">rustica<\/a>t |<a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/aristocat\">aristocat <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/practicat\">practicat <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/casualcat\/\">casualcat <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/holidays.barbados.org\/frugalcat\">frugalcat <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE &#8211; Nov 24 <\/strong>&#8211; New Video showcases PersonaHolidays implementation as seen on Holidays.barbados.org<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JuPsrM1Mjpk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video shows the advanced Personality matching and the hotel matchmaker in action. See latest blog <a href=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-org-new-booking-system-is-the-first-implementation-of-personaholidays\">https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-org-new-booking-system-is-the-first-implementation-of-personaholidays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados launches new Visual Holiday Planner matching travelers with\u00a0 hotels on personality affinity. With years of studying travelers shopping behavior, likes and choices, and fitting that back in our earlier experience with the RealHolidays matchmaker technology which we developed over several years, we have produced a fun new way to find hotels and holiday experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,91],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}