As some of you were made aware in my interview of Shana from Tourism Queensland, I am chatting with some of the EyeForTravel speakers for the upcoming Travel Distribution Summit North America in Chicago this October 2010. The interviews are not only meant to be insight into the world of social media, mobile, and modern technology’s impact on the ever-changing landscape of the hospitality and travel business – but a dialog to help one another answer questions, as well as help get new ones asked. These interviews aren’t necessarily light reading (more…)
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I imagine this is one of the first mash ups of a live-twittered conference? If not the first, one of the only ones because this was massively, overly, insanely, time-consuming. I do think what came of it was worthwhile, and I hope this sort of serves as a testament to all we spoke about and considered during Eye for Travel SM SF 2010. First thing: I am not going to list contributor names here – I assume this is mostly for those who (more…)
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I actually got into a conversation on linked in today! Go figure… I haven’t used it much as the “professional facebook”, but every once in awhile meaningful discussion about the industry pops up…. even then I typically don’t dive in. But it is interesting…. so much conversation about the recession being over, and hoteliers, ownership, and properties are popping up their heads to see if they see their shadow. As real winter looms, our proverbial “winter of discontent” wanes. But instead of being rife with joy… let’s cast our doom & gloom nets out a bit. If you look anywhere in media – fear and panic are often confused and countered by (more…)
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