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American Travelers Plan To Experience More Based On Recommendation

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 4 Comments
Man looking out of train window at cityscape

Austerity doesn’t appear to have dampened the travel ambitions of Americans, according to the latest AMEX survey, but they want to experience more and they are using the Internet to book more, based on recommendations from friends and family.

The American Express Spending & Saving Tracker survey shows that when it comes to travel plans for the summer, almost 140 million Americans (59%) are planning a summer vacation and they expect to spend an average of $1,180 per Continue Reading

Four In Every Five Mobile Media Minutes Are Spent Using Apps

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 1 Comments
Young man looking at smartphone

comScore Inc have been using their new mobile behavioral measurement service, Mobile Metrix 2.0 to draw up some statistics on mobile media usage across apps and mobile browsing in the USA.

Their report covers mobile usage during March and highlights the dominance of apps and social media. Among smartphone users age 18 and older accessing from iOS, Android and RIM smartphones, Google Sites ranked as the top property with nearly 94 million unique visitors, representing 96.9% of the Continue Reading

Tourism New Zealand Media Programme Open to Bloggers

by Rachele Maggiolini RSS 3 Comments
Lake Hawea, New Zealand

When, a couple of months ago I sent an email to Tourism New Zealand’s UK Office to get some information on their recently launched New Zealand Cycle Trail website, I didn’t expect to receive, as an answer, an invitation to join their Explore New Zealand Media Programme.

Created 14 years ago to “target those who already have a desire to travel to New Zealand” and to transform that desire in a reality with discounted Continue Reading

Royal Geographical Society Creates New Flight Route Guide

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
Aerial photo of Dar es Salaam

And invites photographers to submit photos to the project.

Ever stared down from your airliner window seat at a desolate tundra landscape or dramatic mountain wilderness and wondered who lives there, or where exactly ‘there’ is? Well, the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) is hoping to supply the answer.

The RGS – or more formally, the “Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)” to denote its 1995 merger with the Institute of British Geographers – has just added its latest commercial Continue Reading

New Social Map Site Connects Travellers With Bloggers

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 6 Comments
pins on a map

People love to stick pins in things as the success of Pinterest has demonstrated! So why not in a map?

Recent startup, Uencounter.me is a virtual pin map that is social. It allows users to create a personalised virtual pin map to mark locations of interest, and its open design enables a wide range of uses.

For example, shortly after its ‘coming out’ last month (the site went “quietly live” in Nov 2011), the Uencounter team saw users Continue Reading

Social Seating Is Not For All, But It Works For Some

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 8 Comments
KLM Meet & Seat service

Airlines have been experimenting with social seating recently, but how successful is it?

The idea that you could use social media to meet people while on a flight, seems to provoke extreme reactions, people either love the idea or hate it.

A number of airlines, like Lufthansa, Air France and Virgin Atlantic, have experimented with social media applications for their passengers in recent years, with some creating closed social networks for their frequent flyers, but the rapid technical development of Continue Reading

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