Chris Anderson’s Free & the Booking Engine
I’ve been a huge fan for Chris Anderson for a long time. It seemed to me that the “Long Tail” completely supported my own motivation behind building Rezgo, a web based booking engine that would put inventory and distribution control into the hands of the individual supplier. Now with his latest article...
Engaging Bloggers - PR dos and don’ts
Like many of my T-List colleagues I have begun to see my inbox grow steadily with emails from PR firms inviting me to interview Internet entrepreneurs or to check out the latest and greatest new website. Let me clarify that, to me, there is no difference between these messages and the ones I get for cheap stocks, gambling...
User Travel Guides vs. Professional Travel Guides
Frankly I’ve always enjoyed travel guides especially the well written version by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, or Columbus Guides. Since the growth in popularity of user generated sites like Wikitravel and World66 I’ve cast off the shackles of paper and gone digital for my guides preferring the advice and recommendations...
Traditional Journalists Use Blogs for Story Ideas
One of the reasons why blogs are such a good idea and why I enjoy following blogs, especially those on the T-List, is because they are a great source of knowledge. At ITB Berlin in March a number of T-List bloggers, including myself, sat on an expert panel and debated the role of blogs versus traditional journalists. ...
Fake Social Media
Thanks to Joe Buhler for writing his post about the post by Peg Davis titled “Keeping it real… fake: Social Media “don’t”s”. The timing of this post coincides nicely with the announcement that flogging is now illegal in the EU. Peg’s post discusses how to garner favour with the...
Travel 2.0
Chris Anderson’s Free & the Booking EngineI’ve been a huge fan for Chris Anderson for a long time. It seemed to me that the “Long Tail” completely supported...
User Travel Guides vs. Professional Travel GuidesFrankly I’ve always enjoyed travel guides especially the well written version by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, or Columbus Guides. ...
Traditional Journalists Use Blogs for Story IdeasOne of the reasons why blogs are such a good idea and why I enjoy following blogs, especially those on the T-List, is because they...
Destination Management Systems
A Lesson Learned - Big Changes at VisitScotland.comEarlier in February I wrote about the role of the DMO and the lesson learned from VisitScotland.com. That post received a number of...
The Role of the DMO - A Lesson From VisitScotland.comThere has been a lot of discussion about the role of DMOs and how DMOs should be implementing technologies for the benefit of stakeholders....
IFITT
Technologies presented by Eric Basha at Enter 2008The following three videos were presented by Eric Basha, head of Tourism at Microsft, at the Enter 2008 Conference in Innsbruck. Although...
Eric Basha Keynote Presentation at ENTER 2008, InnsbruckThe following seven videos are 8-10 minute segments of the keynote presentation by Eric Basha at the Enter 2008 Conference in Innsbruck,...
UNWTO & Microsoft to Keynote at Enter 2008 in Innsbruck2008 looks like it is going to be a very exciting year for travel & tourism technology. I’m really happy to be able to...
T-List
Chris Anderson’s Free & the Booking EngineI’ve been a huge fan for Chris Anderson for a long time. It seemed to me that the “Long Tail” completely supported...
Engaging Bloggers - PR dos and don’tsLike many of my T-List colleagues I have begun to see my inbox grow steadily with emails from PR firms inviting me to interview Internet...
User Travel Guides vs. Professional Travel GuidesFrankly I’ve always enjoyed travel guides especially the well written version by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, or Columbus Guides. ...


