During the OpenTravel Alliance half day session at Eye for Travel’s Distribution Summit in Chicago, we had an opportunity to discuss new and emerging distribution channels including, believe it or not, destination marketers. Although many of the comments were not particularly supportive of this model, I think there is a huge opportunity for destinations to [...]
Nile Guide is a travel planning tool that combines a trip planning or itinerary creator with a customized printable travel guide. The traveller is first asked where they want to go and they are presented with a set list of popular destinations. Once you have chosen a destination, you are presented with a very informative [...]
With the inaugural PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit less than two weeks away, I thought I would take a few moments to outline the demonstrators (as of November 4th) and then go into a little more detail on each demonstrator. The challenge here is that some of the demonstrators are in stealth mode and are not [...]
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 [...]
I am a big fan of Uptake.com (even when it was Kango.com). I especially like the idea of consolidating information from many sources and bringing it together into one unified interface. About two months ago, I saw a little button at the bottom of their detail pages. I ignored it at first, but after seeing [...]
I recently received a message from Alex Lyons at Responsible Tourism announcing that nominations are now being accepted for the 2008 Responsible Tourism Awards. It is pretty rare that direct messages like these actually make it through to the blog, but in this case, I really like the subject matter and I am passionate about [...]
The main topic at this year’s Global Travel & Tourism Summit in Dubai was sustainability and what the travel industry is doing to promote it. I was really quite surprised at the amount of discussion around how “we” collectively can make a difference and do things on a corporate level to reduce our impact on [...]
So the response to my original post has been pretty good. I managed to stir up some emotions relating carbon offsets to snake oil, but that was after all my point. I didn’t really want to sensationalize it too much, but I did want to make the point that, right now, it is buyer beware. [...]
** Note: I updated the post based on feedback I received from Peter at STI. Thanks to Peter for helping to clarify some of the inaccuracies. Additions are noted in green. I was contacted recently by a client who wanted to integrate a carbon offsetting program into the checkout process of their travel booking engine. [...]
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