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With an endless list of sites offering you travel guidance and information on various locations within your locality or anywhere. But another eye would do no harm rather help users keep a better sight on travel and tourism. PlanetEye paves its way with chances of making it big on the travel scene, as Anthony Ha reports. How? Microsoft has shown interest in it by backing it up with both finances and technical tipping.

The company makes use of Microsoft’s licensed technology to power its interface, bringing forth a soothing visual experience that shows maps spotted with images within bubbles; marking locations that are recommended most.

The site plans at being a place terminal for all your travel planning requirements. The site features as a powerful and user-friendly planning tool; compelling; geo-tagged photography and a leading map technology. The site also features a team of writers who make sure at providing the users with extensive travel details for destinations. The focus is at their prime feature, the Travel Pack; a feature that lets users to clip a favorite tourist attraction, hotel or a location and add it up to their pack, which can later be looked upon when they plan their travel. The data they have in their Travel Pack can be shared with different users in the PlanetEye community.

PlanetEye has already teamed up with various other sites that offer similar services. From buying tickets and reservations via Travelocity to having restaurant reservations through OpenTable; there is every facility you can capitalize as PlanetEye keeps vigilance over your travel needs. As Rob Enderle; principal analyst with Enderle Group commented in a blog post by Mark Evans:

PlanetEye pulls together advanced social networking elements, contextual mapping, and professional travel information to create the most advanced travel planning tool I have ever seen. If you are planning a trip or simply want to imagine one, PlanetEye is the first place you should go.

PlanetEye has already shot up on cash with a raise of $5 million from Microsoft, JL Albright Venture Partners and GrowthWorks.