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• 5 Steps to Getting Started with Social Media in Travel

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 01:46 in blogging, trends, social media, twitter, booking engine, long tail of travel, tour operator software, tour operator system, adventure booking software, activity booking engine, tour reservation sytem

  I had a really great conversation with Barbara Vega, founder of I Heart BackPackers, a tour operator who specializes in backpacking tours all over the World.  During our talk, Barbara wanted to know if I had any suggestions on how to get started wit...

• Converting the Masses – Using Social Media to Improve Customer Conversion

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 00:04 in travel, Web 2.0, tourism, trends, social media, speaking, social networks, speaking engagements, travel 2.0

  This is a copy of my presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit.  Ofcourse you lose the audio content that goes with it, but you get the gist. I’ve added an outline of the slides along with some commentary that adds context to the slide...

• Commoditization Does Not Spell Death For Adventure Products

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 12:22 in travel, technology, trends, speaking, featured, amadeus, gds, reservation systems, rezgo, booking engines, long tail of travel, tour operator software

  In my recent distribution and supply chain collaboration sessions at the Adventure Travel World Summit, I had an opportunity to sit down and discuss aspects of distribution with adventure travel operators and outfitters.  I was joined on the panel b...

• #followfriday – Part III – Travel People on Twitter

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 12:05 in travel, Web 2.0, tourism, social media, twitter, featured, travel research, travel 2.0, tips from the t-list

  This list is sourced from the Uptake Twitter list which can be found at http://www.uptake.com/blog/blogging/the-t-list-does-twitter-join-the-travel-twitterati-beta_239.html.  I wanted to separate it out so that I could generate a TweepML list that w...

• #followfriday Part II – Travel Providers & MetaSearch On Twitter

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 11:44 in travel, Web 2.0, social media, twitter, featured, travel research, travel 2.0

  This list consists of a mix of OTAs and metasearch sites that provide a service to consumers on-line.  Granted there are some sites that probably fit in here that are communities as well, but I am going for just the sites where people would generall...

• #followfriday Part I – Airlines on Twitter

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 11:35 in travel, tips, Web 2.0, social media, twitter, travel research, travel 2.0, tips from the t-list

  For research purposes I have been trying to gather together lists of travel related companies that are using Twitter.  I am slowly but surely putting together some for my own, but hopefully also your, use.  Here is my first list of companies starti...

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