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Sheraton Shows Off Its New Social Meeting Strategy In Edinburgh

by Mike Sowden RSS 0 Comments
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How transparent should hotel chains be regarding what’s being said about them on social media?

The idealistic answer is of course “totally” – but you can understand established brands, perhaps headed by people new to the benefits of user reviews, being leery of the idea. Let’s take a moment to admire the pioneering bravery of Sheraton Hotels & Resorts. Their new digital marketing initiative, tagged “Meet You There” (#meetyouthere on Twitter), revolves around a page of curated social Continue Reading

Hotelicopter Set to Take Off?

by Mike Gerrard RSS 1 Comments
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Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotels.com, Hotels Combined, Booking, Kayak, Priceline, Hotwire… just how many hotel booking websites does the world need? A Google search for “Hotel booking websites” offers 1.4 million results, which is more than there are hotels in the world. How can anyone hope to compete with that opposition? Well, watch out for Hotelicopter.

Hotelicopter has a database of 160,000 hotels (TripAdvisor claims 700,000), and it does achieve the impossible of managing to be different. It has Continue Reading

ITB Berlin – What’s In It For Travel Bloggers?

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The travel trade meets the bloggers at ITB Berlin

For most travel bloggers attending the ITB travel trade fair in Berlin last week, it was their first time. So what is it like?

Well, the initial impression is that it is absolutely huge! It has a very similar format to World Travel Market (WTM) in London but it is a much bigger event. Navigating around the conference centre requires the skills of Magellan on the first day, but provided the previous evening’s complimentary party was left at a sensible Continue Reading

Innovative Business Model For Traveldudes’ New Travel Guide

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Travel bloggers are a worldly bunch having not just visited but lived in many parts of the globe, so they’d likely make excellent guide writers.

Well, that’s what one travel blogging brand is hoping for as it launches its first destination guide.

The Traveldudes Bangkok Travel Guide is a free to download ebook being launched this week, the first in a series.

Traveldudes, run by Melvin Boecher*, has long been a favourite site with backpackers, bloggers Continue Reading

Travel Light and Far with Wild Junket Magazine

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I stumbled upon Nellie’s blog – Wild Junket – about a year ago, and like many others, followed her  travel adventures with a mixture of awe, envy and well…envy because she really has the best job in the world. So I was even more intrigued when I saw the Twitter chat surrounding her new quarterly e-zine – Wild Junket Magazine.

Since moving back home to Toronto, I’ve hung up my backpack and said goodbye to my traveling lifestyle.  It’s only Continue Reading

The Vagabond Column: Your Very Own Personal Assistant for Email on The Road – AwayFind

by John O'Nolan RSS 4 Comments
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This week on The Vagabond Column: We take a look at a service which will take some of the pain out of managing your inbox on the road.

When your full time job is online, email very quickly becomes a pain. There’s always too much of it, it’s difficult to organise, and everyone seems to be so addicted to it that we spend an unreal amount of time inside our mail applications. The problems associated with dealing with a high level Continue Reading

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