Donald Hawkins on Geotourism as Eco-Sensitive, Pro-Poor, Gender Fair, Peacemaking — and Someday Inclusive

Dr. Donald Hawkins is interviewed at the Ashoka Geotourism Challenge. He gives a good overview of how ecotourism is morphing into geotourism and cites some of the necessary alliances — pro-poor tourism and gender equity. Apparently we need to do more public education about the economic realities of disability and Article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for the disability community to regularly be cited in the litany of the ecosystem of geotourism allies: While ecotourism is still associated with the natural environment, there is now a sensitivity to... Read more »

You Don’t Need to Speak the Language to Understand This Video

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Imaginative or desperate? Probably both

You’ve got to hand it FlyBe, caught nearly 175 passengers short of a minimum number required on its Dublin-Norwich route by airport bosses in the Norfolk town. So an ad was duly taken out on an acting website to find some thespians to take the part of passengers as the deadline neared. The whole episode has now been exposed and FlyBe is trying to make light of it all. One only hopes that the actors went ‘in character’… Kevin May, editor, Travolution This article was originally posted on Travolution Blog.You can read and comment on the original article here.  Read More →

Bad news day for airlines - at least for Alitalia, BA and Aloha

Reading the travel pages looks like a bad day to be in the airline business: 1. Milan Malpensa - the “greatest airport in Italy” is having its flight numbers butchered. The newly Air-France/KLM owned Alitalia is going to eliminate two-thirds of its flights from this airport. Effectively ending Malpensa’s days as an international hub (SMH article here). By sheer Italian co-incidence the must heralded new link between Malpensa to the Milan-Turin Highway was finally opened yesterday (day before this announcement) after years of delay; 2. BA is still up to their necks in baggage... Read more »

Are you a twitterer?

I’ve registered with Twitter. I regard it as a mini blog, where I can write snippets about what I’m doing and what’s happening in my travel business. You can follow me on Twitter by receiving updates. Twitter allows visitors to see that my travel business is run by a real person, giving the site an credible feel. Twitter is a tool in establishing my brand as a great resource for travellers wanting to experience authentic travel in Europe on a modest budget. Everyday agony & ecstasy of a Scottish non techie internet entrepreneur running a travel website Do you use Twitter,... Read more »

Marketing your small tourism business in the 21th century: #3 Monitor and Respect Tripadvisor

If you run a tourism business, and especially if you run an accommodation business, you need to know what people say about you on Tripadvisor. A lot of operators do this already, but I’m amazed at how many don’t. You’ll probably find that most reviews are very positive. (Tracking Tourism blog did some research). But some ratings might not be positive. Some might even be unfair. Tripadvisor gives you the ability to respond to any review, positive or negative. So you have a change to provide your side of the story and turn a bad review in an opportunity to show you care about your... Read more »

The unfair process of the US primary

Once in a while I’d like to digress from travel, technology and marketing on my blog. I have other interests and one of them is politics. The US presidential election fascinates me on a lot of levels. In a lot of ways its great. It takes so long that there’s no way you won’t understand the differences between the candidates at the end of the process. Compared to Dutch and Canadian politics where election season is limited to a couple of months or so. What I don’t understand is why I haven’t heard anybody talk about the complete unfairness of spreading the primary elections... Read more »

Active tourism 2.0

The interchange of tourist routes through the network is in height. In another one post on personalización of trips already we spoke of Witur, that it looks for between the trip routes which other travellers do, and who allow a high level of interaction with them as well as with other internauts. The case is that [… This article was originally posted on Clan-Destinos English Feed.You can read and comment on the original article here.  Read More →

Not OK to Flog in public spaces

The EU has just passed word that Flogging (corporate posting) under an alias is illegal. There are two categories that they are focusing on; misleading practices and aggressive practices, says Travelmole. While this legislation is put into place to add validity to UGC online review sites ala Trip Advisor, it will … This article was originally posted on Tourism Tide.You can read and comment on the original article here.  Read More →

Why Accessible Buses Are Important

Mark Roger writes for Travel Agent Central. Fortunately for those of us with disabilities he has an ear for a good story — and an eye for an interesting companion on a bus ride. I wonder how much better known the needs of travelers with disabilities would be if public transportation were accessible and conversation like this were taking place daily everywhere around the world: I regularly attend travel forums and expos around the world. If I’m on my game, the morning bus ride from the hotel to the convention center can yield interesting conversations — sometimes the most interesting... Read more »

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