Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
What Google Hotel Finder Means For DMOs
Destination marketing organizations and CVBs have long thought of themselves as the most knowledgeable guide to a particular tourism area. But that claim of expertise just got a little smaller.
Travel Trends – Facebook Places, United, Google Maps Mobile
Facebook Places: The New TripAdvisor or Another Social Wasteland? – Following our post on the launch of Facebook Places (10 Things You Need To Know About Facebook Places), we have been eagerly searching for and reading other takes on the new social service. One that caught our eye was from the team at Jaunted: Will [...]
How To: Improve Local Search with Google Places
In today’s edition of our How To series on Travel 2.0, we take a quick look at Google Places and how the Google Maps-based section can help improve, as well as provide insight into, your local search strategy. For a quick recap on Google Places, take a look at our post from last fall: Google [...]
Travel Trends – NYCGo, Manchester + Surface, World Expo Tour
NYCGo or the Google Visitor Center – Hat tip to Maria for reminding us about the fantastic NYC Visitor Center. See the video link below. While the NYC example certainly takes the Interaction idea to new levels, it still feels a bit off in other places. Perhaps a bit too hip and cool for the [...]
This Week in Travel Tech – July 9th Edition
The stories keeping us up (far too late) at night. Google loves ITA, Google, Canada, the iPhone is dead!, geeks and airlines. Giant Step Into Travel for Google – NY Times I, for one, welcome our new booking engine overlords. Three quarters of consumers use Google Suggest to begin their travel search – Tnooz Not [...]
