Category Archives: Leisure travel
TripAdvisor Back From Its Google Vacation
Last week it appeared that hotels reviews site TripAdvisor was blocking Google from showing its content on Places Pages. TripAdvisor never confirmed that it was doing so and Google attributed the absence of TripAdvisor reviews on Places to a technical … Continue reading
Free Hotel Breakfasts Spark More Than Appetite | ehotelier.com News Archives
Poll Results What is your favorite hotel amenity? Free breakfast, 56% Free Wi-Fi, 28% Pool, 12% Exercise room, 5% Results based on a nonscientific CNN.com poll. About 11,000 people clicked on the survey October 12-19. RELATED TOPICS Hotels Travel and … Continue reading
Social Media Revolution: Is your hotel ready?
Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore.
New Study Reveals Pervasive Social Media Use within Adventure Tourism
Representing the most current and comprehensive social media usage study yet conducted within the adventure tourism trade sector, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), Resmark Systems and Convince & Convert today released, Travel, Tweets & Trends, a report indicating that … Continue reading
Fall is here in the North Hemisphere – Travel trends for this season
TripAdvisor has surveyed over 2,000 U.S. travelers about their fall travel plans. This year, 86% said they were planning a fall leisure trip (up from 73% last year). What are they up to? Read on: Top 5 Fall Activities: 1. … Continue reading
Tourism Marketing Through Food
Positively Wellington (the DMO for Wellington, NZ) is sure that the way to a visitor’s heart is through his/her stomach. In a truly unique promotion, the DMO opened a pop-up restaurant in Sydney (a huge lift market for them) called … Continue reading
Cheapest holiday destinations revealed
After conducting a Cost of Living survey, Thomas Cook has revealed the cheapest holiday destinations for 2010. The survey compares the daily cost of living, including the price of a three-course meal and groceries. Although the pound is still weak … Continue reading
Social Media Revolution for Hotel Industry
ONE HAPPY FEEDBACK FROM A GUESS, MANY POSSIBILITIES… ONE UN-HAPPY GUESS, MANY CONSEQUENCES … Get a maximum a good feedback from your hotel guest, don’t wait: Ask them to leave a comment online. Couple of websites like TripAdivisor: Bookingbuddy, travellibrary, … Continue reading