Tourism Internet Marketing

e-Marketing

Google Universal Search and your travel industry business. Are you ready?

It was around a year ago when Google started going live with universal search . The goals was to bring all the other specialised search results (from Video, Maps , Images , News , User Reviews, etc.) to the main web search... Read more »

Yahoo! Answers and the travel space.

Yahoo! Answers is becoming a reference site on the Internet. Its popularity could provides an opportunity for online marketers to acquire targeted referral traffic. Yahoo! Answers propose The Yahoo! Answers Knowledge Partners... Read more »

Share your Travel Marketing Secrets

Tourism Marketing Blog contributor Claude had the brilliant idea to reach out and ask experts to share their Travel Marketing Secrets and Tips - similar to the initative from Small Business Trends…but focused on travel,... Read more »

Dot Travel - The rise and fall of a brilliant concept

I wrote about “dot travel” on my blog in the past, and just for the record, personally I still believe in the original dot travel concept, as well as the purity of the dot travel domain extension for travel and tourism... Read more »

New Travel Search Engine Kango.com goes into Private Beta

A little while ago, my friend Yen Lee, Kango’s President and former General Manager of Yahoo Travel, gave me the opportunity to be one of the first bloggers to get a sneak preview and play around with Kango.com a few months... Read more »

Social Media

Social Networking in Travel - KLM Airlines

We all know Web 2.0 (or Travel 2.0) are the current buzz words. We also know that Social Networking sites in travel are the trend of the present. I have written about a few of them over the past few months (VibeAgent,... Read more »

Online Matchmaking for Plane Travelers

Now here is an interesting thought: Have you ever checked-in to your flight, and you wished that you could influence who you would be sitting next to over the next few hours on that plane, or not sitting next to - a mother... Read more »

Online Community for Hotel and Travel E-Marketers

The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) has launched virtual communities for its special interest groups, including its Travel Internet Marketing Organization (TIMO). As member of HSMAI’s... Read more »

Trends

The E-Marketer of Today is the CMO of Tomorrow

The E-Marketer of Today is the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Tomorrow…? Well, I said it 10 years ago, and people thought I was crazy! In fact when I was experimenting with my first little Internet venture back in... Read more »

The Great (Fire)wall of China

As is well known, there are some subjects - such as Taiwan, Falun Gong - that the Chinese Government doesn’t think its people should know about. So about 30,000 Internet censorship officials have been deployed to man... Read more »

Global Warming - it effects all of us!

This may not be totally relevant to the topic of my blog, but I thought I post it anyhow. This weekend I watched this documentary by Al Gore for the second time. If you see only one movie this year, make it An Inconvenient... Read more »

Google Trends - A reliable “Crystal Ball”?

I’ve made some requests on Google Trends and here is what I got for “Canada Tourism“. You can also compare different search terms, say “Fairmont Hotels”, “Four Seasons Hotels”, and Ritz Carlton... Read more »

Adobe Engagement Platform

The Adobe Engagement Platform, built around Adobe PDF and Flash technology as well as HTML, enables individuals and companies to create and deploy engaging and consistent experiences across platforms, devices, and environments. ... Read more »