Travel Blog Carnival : reviews for week 2

Hello travel bloggers, So, it's my time to make the Travel Blog Carnival reviews. Hope it will be clear with my not so super english writting ;-) Eclectic travel blog posts this week, from travel writer to travel marketing expert. Hope you will enjoy their posts, so here we go for the reviews. Theresa Russel from Cruisebugchatter.com suggest some “fun new years resolutions” and describe the first one : Try your first cruise. She explain also how several factors can reduce your chance of sea sickness. A great expert point of view ! - Vicky Brock from www.trackingtourism.com is starting... Read more »

Kayak buys SideStep, some thoughts !

Kayak travel meta-search has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million, say Techrunch in this post. So, we have now a big market leadership in the travel meta-search space. This players are american, but other actors are interesting to see : Sprice (with a international focus, Europe and Asia at this time) DoHop (with great technology for Low Cost airfare in Europe) Bezurk (for asian market) Adam Healey, Co-founder & CEO VibeAgent Inc., write some thoughts about this buying in the VibeAgent blog. “I think this deal is further market validation of the meta-search model that VibeAgent... Read more »

If you want to follow me on Twitter

I use Twitter since few days. If you want to follow me, it's here: http://twitter.com/ClaudeBenard I don't promise to update this stuff every mn. like geeks junky, but i'll try to update Twitter 3 or 4 time a week. If you use Twitter, leave a comment with your adress. Lire l’article. Articles Similaires: Twitter : track activities from anywhere - 27 September 2006 Why Twitter? (3): Twitter 与虹 (上) - 04 四月 2007 Why Twitter? (4): Twitter 与虹 (下) - 05 四月 2007 Another Reason Why People Shouldn’t Use Twitter - 28 November 2007 Quotably: Follow Twitter Conversations... Read more »

Awesome Touch Screen Interface from Tokyo’s UT store

While looking for a cool Japanese t-shirt last week I came across this touch screen interface at Tokyo’s UT store. This store is awesome. They sell designs for only a month. The shirts are sold in tubes and the store layout and artworks are replaced every month as well. This touch screen allows you to browse the store inventory in a very cool and interactive way. Their website is pretty interesting as well. This article was originally posted on Wilhelmus.You can read and comment on the original article here.  Read More →

Tourism Internet Marketing Blog 2.0

Welcome to the new blog layout! Jens Thraenhart recently asked me to participate as a contributor on this blog, the second edition of his Tourism Internet Marketing site. That sounded like fun to me, so I was happy to agree. Jens knows lots about e-marketing for the travel trade. And he has many savvy friends and colleagues in the industry, some of whom will be posting right here on the blog. I’m excited to be a part of that momentum. (more…) This article was originally posted on Tourism Internet Marketing.You can read and comment on the original article here.  Read More →

Groundswell, the book to understand social technologies

I suggest you read the Groundswell book and spend sometimes on their web site where you can discover the power of social technologies like blogs, social networks... It's a book by two Forrester analysts, CHARLENE LI and JOSH BERNOFF According to the Groundswell web site: "Right now, your customers are writing about your products on blogs and recutting your commercials on YouTube. They're defining you on Wikipedia and ganging up on you in social networking sites like Facebook. These are all elements of a social phenomenon - the groundswell - that has created a permanent, long-lasting... Read more »

Hotelbewertungsplattformen - wieso die meisten Bewertungen positiv sind

Summary: It is common knowledge that people tell others about their negative experiences five times more often than about their positive ones. How come then, that most reviews on the hotel review platform Holidaycheck are positive? In this German article I claim, that most guests are content, or hotels would have gone out of business already. Eine Theorie besagt, wer mit etwas zufrieden ist, erzählt es 3 Personen. Wer dagegen mit etwas unzufrieden ist, erzählt es 15 Personen. Wie kann es dann sein, dass laut dem Hotelbewertungsportal HolidayCheck  die meisten der von Besuchern veröffentlichten... Read more »

Hotelbewertungsplattformen - wieso die meisten Bewertungen positiv sind II

Nach meinem gestrigen Artikel Hotelbewertungsplattformen - wieso die meisten Bewertungen positiv sind hat Markus Luthe vom Hotelverband Deutschland einleuchtende Erklärungen für die überwiegend positiven Bewertungen von Hotels auf den verschiedenen Portalen beigesteuert. In der Tat sind auch unserer Wahrnehmung nach die weitaus meisten der in den Online-Foren abgegebenen Hotelbewertungen positiv. Acht von zehn Bewertern schreiben ihre Benotung, um das Hotel zu loben. Die Durchschnittsnoten sind eindeutig positiv. Dies sollte für einen entspannten Umgang der Hotellerie mit Bewertungsportalen,... Read more »