http://tourisminternetmarketing.com Mon, 19 May 2008 17:39:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everybody is talking about China, India, and Vietnam...what is really going on in the fastest growing tourism destination in the world?  I have had the pleasure to sit down with Peter de Jong, CEO of PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) to learn about the challenges and opportunities facing the Asia Pacific region.  ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/tourism-challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-asia-pacific-region/ 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 portal.I think it is interesting to analyse some ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/google-universal-search-and-your-travel-industry-business-are-you-ready/ Green IT – Is technology helping save energy or is the increased use of the internet and the associated server usage actually doing the exact opposite? http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/green-it/ 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 program (currently in Beta) and Travelocity is one of the partners for the travel space. By identifying Travelocity as ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/e-marketing/yahoo-answers-and-the-travel-space/ 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, tourism, and hospitality marketing.The results will be shared here on the Tourism Internet Marketing Blog, ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/share-your-travel-marketing-secrets/ 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 related web addresses.  However, I was saddened when I ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/dot-travel-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-brilliant-concept/ I wrote about TripIt before on my blog, but at the recent PhoCusWright Conference in Orlando, I had an opportunity to talk to Gregg Brockway, co-founder and president of the Travel Planning website, and he was nice enough to answer some of my questions. Greg was also the co-founder of ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/interview-with-the-founder-of-tripit/ For my first post inside Tourism Internet Marketing Blog 2.0, TIMB 2.0 for the purist ;-) I would like to talk about a travel blogging bridge between Canada & France, possible new way for Internet marketing in the blogging area and compare pratices from this countries. http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/travel-blogging-bridges/ Back in June of 2007, I wrote about the extraordinary concept of Kiva.org. Now I came across an interview with Bill Clinton that explains the mission very accurately...as well as this film by PBS. Another great site is GiveMeaning.com by Vancouver-based Tom Williams. Tom started his career in Product Marketing at ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/jens/websites-with-a-cause/ Welcome to the new blog layout! Jens Thraenhart recently asked me to participate as a contributor on this blog, the second edition of his Tourism Internet Marketing site. That sounded like fun to me, so I was happy to agree. Jens knows lots about e-marketing for the travel trade. And he has ... http://tourisminternetmarketing.com/featured/tourism-internet-marketing-blog-20/