Travel-Blogger at ITB Berlin 2010

Quelle für diese Liste ist die Seite ATTENDING BLOGGERS auf phocuswright.com

Kurt Ackermann
Afrika T

Jens Thraenhart
China Travel Trends

Anna Pollock
DestiCorp 2.0

Holly Maguire
Escapio Blog

Gesa Noormann
Escapio Blog

Karin Schmollgruber
Fasten Your Seatbelts

Tao Tao
GetYourGuide Travel Blog

Guido J. Elshout
Happy Hotelier

Josiah Mackenzie
Hotel Marketing Strategies

Claude Benard
HoteliTour

Goetz Primke
Le Gourmand – Das Geniesser-Magazin

Olivier Dujardin
Max

Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
Professor Sabena

Claus Weber
Reise Blog

Edwina Dendler
ReviewPro Hotel Reputation Management Blog

Detlef Meyer
Roundtrip

Alex Bainbridge
Tnooz

Kevin May
Tnooz

Glenn Gruber
Tnooz

Martin Schobert
tourismusdesign

Yeoh Siew Hoon
The Transit Cafe

Adrian Matt
Travelbrain

Zenaida Des Aubris
Travels with Zen-Aida

Henri Roelings
WIWIH

Reinhard Lanner
workersonthefield | tourism & marketing solutions

Elegant: TripIt for unmanaged business travel

Schicke Sache für kleine Firmen. Wenn man denn seine Firmenreisedaten per Mail in die Staaten schicken will. Wenn man das macht, hat man eine sehr schicke, elegante Lösung, die so niemand sonst anbietet.

"... Geared for businesses which don’t use trave agencies or have official travel managers and programs, the service is available starting at $29 per month for up to 10 people, TripIt says... "
Quelle:
http://www.tnooz.com/2010/12/14/news/tripit-pushes-itineraries-for-unmanaged-business-travel/

Google Instant is just the beginning in the search revolution in travel

Lesenswerter Artikel über Google Instant und die Reisebranche.

Wie Google Instant den Longterm in der Reisebranche killt und Goole erheblich mehr Umsatz beschert.

"... Under Google non-instant a customer would type in “hotels in Bondi with a swimming poo and view”, wait for the results then click on the link.

Under Google Instant, the second they type in the word “hotels” results will start to appear Any percentage of long tail searchers that abandon a long tail search to click on a head term paid advert is more money for Google. Great move. ..."

Quelle: http://www.tnooz.com/2010/09/23/news/google-instant-is-just-the-beginning-in-the-search-revolution-in-travel/

The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel: Stories from TRAVELtech: contemplating the parallel inter-verse

In the Internet that I live in the following rules apply:
  • Search: Not all my searches start on Google;
  • Starting: Portals are not a starting point but might be a destination (ie Yahoo Finance);
  • Creating: I am creating more and more content very day – but writing less and less on my blog;
  • Reading: Newspaper sites are fading from view in favour of RSS and news aggregators; and
  • Accessing: I am accessing the internet all over place – via my computer, my Apple TV, my Xbox, my blackberry and more.

Three presentations at TRAVELtech reminded me that many people online who do not adhere to these rules and therefore exist in a parallel inter-verse:

  • Mark Higginson of Neilsen Online reminded me that a third of Internet users do not use social networks. For these users (and there are a lot of them) the Internet is not a place for inspiration or interaction. It is a functional place. A place to consume content, check details and make purchases. A place to do things and find things out, not to engage, share and...well... just hang out;
  • Rohan Lund of Yahoo!7 says that Yahoo! is continuing to expand world-wide as a place for people to start on the Internet. That the portal is still as strong and steady starting point on the Internet for hundreds of millions of users; and
  • Warren Livingstone (founder of the Fanatics) proved that the secret to community was tents more than tweets. That communities did not need social media that much to grow and foster.

Kann man sich gar nicht oft genug sagen:

Ein drittel der Leute da draussen sind nicht und werden wahrscheinlich auch nie im Social DingensWeb auftauchen.