Cathedral swimming in Budapest’s Gellert

Gellert Baths, Budapest With some Budapest hotels offering free nights over this winter, it might be a good time to pop by and then you can follow up my tip: a swim in the Gellert Baths and Spa. You might be starting to think I’m obsessed with Hungarian baths after I raved about the Heviz Thermal Baths but it’s really not usually my thing - that’s why I’m so eager to get others to try these ones too. The Gellert Baths in Budapest are famous and the hotel they’re part of is usually too pricey for my standards, but the good news is you don’t have to stay there... Read more »

PhoCusWright Identifies Seven Emerging Themes for Travel Industry

Be on the lookout for these themes derived from the most creative and innovative minds in the business. The Travel Innovation Summit at The PhoCusWright Conference will showcase the travel industry’s hottest, most innovative Web and mobile-based applications. In assembling this first-ever event featuring innovators from around the world, seven key themes emerge. Following is a preview of the next big wave of ideas that will shape the travel marketplace over the next 12 to 18 months. The growth of pure Travel 2.0 businesses is slowing-dramatically. The Travel Innovation Summit demonstrators,... Read more »

Happy Hotelier’s 10 Most Popular Posts of September 2008

I managed to add a Plugin that provides popular posts in the sidebar. I don’t know, but maybe, because I installed the Plugin only somewhere half September, or maybe because the Plugin uses a completely different algorithm as Woopra, but the result for September is totally different for both. Interesting to see that according to Woopra during the last two weeks of September some very old posts got new attention. As I have installed Woopra now for “quite some time” (since May, 2008) I also checked my 5 “All time” most popular posts for the period May - September... Read more »

How Sam Sullivan Changed the World - by Boat!

Schedules didn't allow us to meet when I was up in Vancouver researching progress on inclusive tourism for the 2010 Winter Paralympics and Olympics but here Sam Sullivan, mayor of Vancouver, talks about how he pioneered the sport of disabled sailing. There is more on Sam Sullivan at Wikipedia and, while he is still in office, at various government sites. What we are waiting for is how he will continue to change the world in his next role.  Read More →

Rezgo.com a Finalist for TIAC National Tourism Award

I was pleasantly surprised on Thursday to read that Rezgo.com’s parent company Sentias Software Corp. is one of three finalists for the Deloitte Innovator of the Year Award as part of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada’s National Tourism Awards for 2008. In their own words: The TIAC National Awards for Tourism Excellence presented by The Globe and Mail were developed in 2003 by the Tourism Industry Association of Canada to recognize and foster Canadian tourism excellence. The awards are presented annually at a gala dinner during Canada’s Tourism Leadership Summit.... Read more »

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