The Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere, at the intersection of Avenue des Champs Elysees and Avenue George V, is offering couple the chance to re-create their own version of the famous Robert Doisneau photo known as “Le Baiser” (”The Kiss”). The “Paris C’est L’Amour” package includes a make-up session and one-hour photo shoot with a professional black-and-white […]

The Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere, at the intersection of Avenue des Champs Elysees and Avenue George V, is offering couple the chance to re-create their own version of the famous Robert Doisneau photo known as “Le Baiser” (”The Kiss”). The “Paris C’est L’Amour” package includes a make-up session and one-hour photo shoot with a professional black-and-white […]

Technorati Tags: web 2.0 Why online travel buzz might be bogus There’s certainly some truth in this and there is no doubt companies are trying to game the system themselves or by using PR agencies as proxies. This doesn’t diminish the validity of concept. It is the cumulative effect of user generated content that has value. […]

Anyone planning a visit to Australia in March should head to Melbourne between the 16th and 30th of March for the Annual Food and Wine Festival. Considered the largest food and wine festival in the world, this gastronomic marathon is not to be missed. With 150 events across Melbourne and Victoria, there’s plenty of opportunity […]

Navi Mumbai is a growing suburb of Mumbai, a 13-million person metropolis in southwest India formerly known as Bombay. This thriving business, tech and manufacturing hub will soon have an international airport and recently opened a five-star hotel. “The Park” is a 40-minute drive from the domestic airport and a 10-minute walk from the […]

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Remaking the City’s Image, With 50 Million Tourists in Mind I like it when old Madison Avenue agency types are talking about how they’re going to revolutionize how to successfully market a destination sounding as if they’ve just invented the discipline. What’s spelled out in this article has all been done by industry professionals before. When I […]

A new logo for Italy is all they come up with? I’m not impressed by either logo or slogan and the website seems to me like one of those expensive productions by a design focused agency that might know the latest tools and gadgets but doesn’t seem to understand what it takes to make it easy […]

testimonial I found via Seth Godin’s blog on Alchemic Spot: Guerilla Tourism Board It shows how priceless a spontaneous action by a local person can greatly influence the image of a destination. Of course, knowing how hospitable so many Canadians are this didn’t really surprise me that much, but still this guy deserves an A+ and […]

Mangocity.com owned by China Travel Service a Chinese online travel agent is the third-biggest travel agent in China after Ctrip and Elong. [via… [[ Complete post on the site >> ]] Published by adminContinue reading: Mangocity.com owned by China Travel Service

Travel research outside the Internet already unknown for many I must be hones, I’m reading this article with quite a bit of glee. Why? Because I remember only a few years ago when I ventured that in the not too distant future a majority of people would research, plan and book their trips online, I was […]

Booking Engine for National Tourism Organizations? This question was discussed intensively back in the late ’90s in Switzerland and it was finally resolved in 1999 when MySwitzerland.com the site for the Swiss NTO was built with a fully functioning hotel booking engine with the widest coverage of accommodation across the country, something no other organization was […]

Travel Distribution Summit Asia 2007 will be held on 13-14 March 2007 in Singapore. The conference organized by EyeForTravel will be focus on the… [[ Complete post on the site >> ]] Published by adminContinue reading: Travel Distribution Summit Asia 2007

The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has joined PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association). DTCM Director General, Mr Khalid A… [[ Complete post on the site >> ]] Published by adminContinue reading: Dubai Department of Tourism joined PATA

Journey Within is a tour operator in Siem Reap, Cambodia. With offices in California and Bangkok the company promise gives their customers a… [[ Complete post on the site >> ]] Published by adminContinue reading: Tour Operator in Cambodia

After featuring Pnom Penh, the NY Times Travel section now published a review on another Southeast Asian city: Hanoi, Vietnam On the piece “The… [[ Complete post on the site >> ]] Published by adminContinue reading: Hanoi, the Capital of Vietnam

as this article in eMarketer.com - Online to Account for Majority of US Travel Market clearly shows. Websites are now used for more than just planning and research but for booking. One result that surprised me is the fact that web 2.0 tools don’t seem to be important factors yet in creating […]

Read this interesting post and reflect on how your destination site performs. Biznology: Do You Know How Searchers Behave? With so many DMO sites suffering from information overload it’s even more necessary to take this customer or searcher centric approach. After all, why drive all that traffic to a site that looks more like a […]

Virginia Tourism Corporation Introduces ‘Singing’ Travel Web Site that plays on the heritage of the state and presents it in a very effective, innovative way. It has all the elements that make the web such an effective communications tool, viral, social, participatory and most of all fun. Go here and enjoy!   Published by jebworksContinue reading: This is […]