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The UNWTO’s One-Billion Tourists Campaign: Will It Make a Difference?

by Ethan Gelber RSS 3 Comments
UNWTO 1 Billion Tourists 1 Billion Opportunities logos

On December 13th, the world will, for the very first time, see its one billionth traveller in one year. One billionth! That means nearly one out of seven people on the planet will have journeyed across an international border. What, meaningfully asks the UN World Tourism Organisation, would it mean if each one of them did something good? Great question. But is asking it enough to change minds?

In mid-November, the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) – Continue Reading

Announcement of new UK based Travel Blogger Conference, Traverse

by Lezaan Roos RSS 10 Comments
Brighton pier

Traverse 2013 is an event that aims to give bloggers the chance to learn new skills and improve their existing skills with hands-on, “bring your laptop” style workshops.

It has been setup by bloggers, for bloggers who want to learn, network and have fun in the most efficient way possible.

The core of the event will be held on a Saturday with a Friday evening “Travel Massive” style welcome event in order to be as flexible as possible for those Continue Reading

2012 Travolution Summit – Live Blog

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
Travolution Summit delegates

The 1-day Travolution Summit takes place today in London – a series of presentations, panels, research and networking for and about the online travel sector.

We’ll be live blogging during the course of the day, covering particularly the sessions in the morning that are focused on social media….

/* Alastair McKenzie — Thursday, 17:01 UTC

Last session of the day. Is not really a session. It’s a pre-recorded video interview with Glenn Fogel, Head of worldwide strategy & Continue Reading

Live blogging the 2012 Travolution Summit

by Lezaan Roos RSS 1 Comments
Audience at Travolution Summit 2009

This Thursday 22nd Nov sees the sixth Travolution Summit kick off with the Sabre Travel Network as their headline sponsor. Delegates can expect a great line up of Industry authorities, providing insight into the online travel sector. If you are not able to make it this year, don’t worry, Travelllll.com will be there and our Alastair McKenzie will be live blogging from the event.

There are lot of interesting discussions to look forward to and one we’re particularly interested Continue Reading

An Industry First: The #HBloggerLove Travel Bloggers’ Awards 2012

by Lezaan Roos RSS 8 Comments
Superstar crowded by paparazzi

On Wednesday November 7th, when travel bloggers were gathered for last week’s World Travel Market, HostelBookers held their first ever sponsored travel bloggers’ awards at Barrio Central’s basement bar in Soho. Working with Rough Guides, RTWExperts and G Adventures, ten awards were presented on the night, as well as five prizes for Twitter challenges and a whole lot of complimentary Mojitos. You could follow what was going on with the hashtag #HBloggerlove.

The evening was Continue Reading

This week celebrated the third annual Internet Week Europe

by Lezaan Roos RSS 0 Comments
transparent digital screen with info about London on it

If you are interested in the cutting edge of Internet tech and social media  marketing then this is a good week to be in London because we are in the middle of  an extraordinary and entirely crowd-sourced festival taking place at various venues across the capital, spanning from the broad East London ‘Tech City’ Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch, through to the headquarters of powerhouses including YouTube, Google and cultural institutions such as The V&A.

This year’s Continue Reading

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