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Travel Weekly Blog

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Tying up the loose ends of travel - by Travel Weekly UK web producer Nathan Midgley and managing editor Martin Couzins

• Added on: Sep 5th, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Nathan Midgley
• Listed in: Travel
• Tags: travel holidays

Recent Posts

• Holiday Options failure: reaction on Twitter

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 10:45 in administration, failures, operators, holiday options

  Holiday Options has gone bust, and some of the reaction we've started to see testifies to the esteem in which the operator was held by agents. This is just to aggregate some of the tweets I've spotted - I'm not using a feed as the keyword  'Holi...

• Tested: Bing \'visual search\' of travel destinations

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 04:27 in search, technology, Microsoft, msn, bing, visual search

  Bing UK created a good visual search of prime ministers for the state opening of Parliament today (you'll need to install Silverlight) - and it turns out there's one for travel destinations too. (Visual Search isn't an open-ended tool at this stage, ...

• Travel sites are poor at it; Google may start valuing it. Problem?

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 11:05 in search, google, technology, load time, site speed

  Neither of these is hot off the press, but it is worth putting them side by side. Top travel sites show poor load times [Travolution] Site speed: Google's next ranking factor [Search Engine Land] The latter refers to organic search results - i.e. th...

• The point of blogs: A reply to our own columnist...

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 11:23

  I don't flatter myself that readers pore over our Thursday email alerts in search of contradictions. But if you were so minded, you would have spotted this today: On the left, our travel agent columnist decrying blogging; on the right, five posts fr...

• WTM Steps: A pedometer contest for the Twitterati

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 in events, world travel market, wtm

  There'll be loads of online travel types at World Travel Market, and everyone ends up walking a ridiculous distance. So I'm suggesting an informal contest.   Get yourself a pedometer - there may still be time to nab one of the Just A Drop c...

• Heathrow on Twitter: a great start, but will it scale?

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 06:38 in technology, airlines, social media, twitter, airports, heathrow

  Ok - Heathrow is some 24 hours in to Twitter, and already there's a strong interaction to flag up:@seany85 said that Terminal 3 stinks:@heathrowairport replied that the facilities team were on the case:@seany85 responded with more details, and mentio...

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Santosh Nikam

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