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 »

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 →

Free Hug Campaign: can we learn something for the travel industry?

Society for Word of Mouth and Church of the Customer Blog have a great post and analyse about viral maketing effects. They talk about the “Free Hug Campaign” who is hot on You Tube: Rate: 83249 Views: 25,468,480 Comments: 49,920 Favorited: 131,085 times Honors: 8 Links: 5 In this video you will watch one man giving away free hugs and the effect it has on the people around him. Please observe the people comportment: * People's resistance to anything free… even if it's a hug * The breakthrough that happens when one random individual decides to try one * A tsunami... Read more »

Web Wednesday Singapore - 2008-02-20 - "Show me the eMoney!"

As I mentioned in my post last week, we had the inaugural Web Wednesday Singapore here last Wednesday. It was the first one, so the three “(dis)organizers” - Kevin Tan, Andy Tu and I - just wanted to get a small group together to get some feedback and determine the viability of this kind of event. So we sent out personal invites that included something like this: *****Hi Everybody, It has been a long time since we have had a gathering of like minded individuals for a night of drinks, catching up, and networking. The famous (or rather, infamous) Web Wednesday has now landed on our fair... Read more »

The story of Arthur

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Accommodation bathroom cleanliness is crucial

by markus941 How important is the cleanliness of the bathroom at your accommodation? For me it’s crucial? I just don’t feel comfortable in an establishment that doesn’t have clean bathrooms. What a contrast I’ve experienced in standards of cleanliness in bathrooms in accommodation over a couple of days. On Sunday night I stayed at the Metro Inn Falkirk in central Scotland and was unhappy with the cleanliness of the shared bathrooms. On Wednesday night I stayed at the Sunnybrae Bed & Breakfast in Galashiels in Hawick in the Scottish Borders and I can report that the... Read more »

Consumers don’t trust travel agents

Here’s a story from TravelMole about why consumers do not trust Travel Agents: “Consumers doubt agents provide good value“ A few interesting numbers: 1) Only a quarter of holidaymakers believe travel agents offer good value for money 2) 42% “actively disagreed” that agents offer the best deal 3) 46% who arranged their own holiday themselves preferred the DIY route because they wanted to get the best deal or believed it was cheaper to arrange it themselves 4) Around one in five (22%) thought that agents in general do not give honest, trustworthy advice, and only 38%... Read more »

Is annual car hire excess insurance a good buy?

I’m always trying to point out the potential pitfalls of car hire because it is complicated to come up with best all round car hire deal. You should never purchase car hire on price alone, you really just examine all aspects of the car rental agreement. If I hire a car abroad once a year I use a car hire company which offers a truly inclusive price where either you will pay no excess in the event of damage of theft such as economycarhire or the excess will be refunded by the car rental firm if you pay an additional charge such as AutoEurope. However even with this cover damage to the roof,... Read more »

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