Tips from the T-List

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... (more...)

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Demain, mardi 1er avril, se tiendra une journée technique ODIT France sur le thème : “Tourisme et vente sur internet : méthode et indicateurs clés”. Je pars ce soir pour être présent à cette journée technique qui aura lieu demain à l’hôtel Méridien Montparnasse, Paris XIVe,... (more...)

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... (more...)

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... (more...)

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,... (more...)

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... (more...)

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... (more...)