September 25, 2009
Utah Rolls Out a New Look – Our neighbors to the West have introduced a new, and fully-functioning version, of Utah.travel…just in time for the ski season push in the Beehive State. I know, beehive…look it up. After using a heavily modified splash page, for what seemed like years, the team at the Utah Office [...]
August 13, 2009
Augmented Reality Is What Is Next – ‘AR’ for short. We certainly did not coin the term or even break the first story about AR, but the possibilities of AR seem to be an excellent answer to one of the more popular questions that Mo and I get asked frequently…so, what is next? Honestly people, [...]
July 29, 2009
Email Benchmarks – Everyone loves stats and benchmarks, and the “Q1 2009 Email Trends and Benchmarks” report by Epsilon does not disappoint. The report covers a wide range of industries, but for our purposes skip to the bottom of the charts and pay close attention to the ‘Travel/hospitality’ industry numbers. Solid numbers to benchmark your [...]
July 2, 2009
Tip of the hat to @davitydave for letting a lot of us know about Oyster.com. Thanks David. Its name is Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.oyster.com). Aided by allegations that the popular TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) has been manipulated and distorted by less-than-objective opinions sent to it by hoteliers and others, Oyster has hired “professionals” — full-time inspectors chosen [...]
June 30, 2009
After our extremely popular, ‘hey, why aren’t you doing this?’ post on Twitter entitled ‘How the Travel Industry Should Use Twitter,’ a sequel was inevitable. And frankly, we owed it to you. The one thing we did not talk about in that previous post is how VISIT DENVER…my day job…is adopting Twitter into it’s social [...]