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GAP Adventures turn for dream job-picture-trip online competition

By Kevin May | February 8, 2010

GAP Adventures is the latest in what is becoming an increasingly long line of travel companies to turn to online competitions to raise their profile. Read More

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What are the most popular tourism profiles on Twitter?

By Kevin May | February 4, 2010

A study into the popularity of travel-related Twitter accounts has revealed only two profiles beginning with the titles "Visit", "Travel", "Tourism" or "Discover" have more than 10,000 followers. Read More

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Why your Facebook fans are phonies

By Troy Thompson | February 2, 2010

A Facebook poll to find which US state can get the most 'fans' might be interesting in the short term but over time it is probably - and unfortunately - utterly meaningless. Read More

Is the first rule of a social media strategy to announce you are going to get one? [First Choice]

By Kevin May | January 26, 2010

Tour operator First Choice has taken the offbeat step of laying open its lack of a social media strategy and saying it will now have one thanks to a tie-in with a specialist agency. The TUI-owned... Read More

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TripChill builds Twitter trip notification engine

By Kevin May | January 25, 2010

Mobile trip itinerary assistant TripChill wants users to Tweet their way through their travels by using a new tool to notify selected friends of milestones along a journey. The simplest execution of the... Read More

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Tnooz List: 50 travel companies and the Twitter follow-follower ratio debate

By Kevin May | January 15, 2010

UK ecommerce and marketing service EConsultancy joined the likes of tech uberblogger Robert Scoble recently by unfollowing enmasse around 19,000 followers of its Twitter account. The company says the... Read More

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China travel executives still in pursuit of best social media strategy

By Viewpoints | December 23, 2009

The fast pace of change in social media tools and the travel market in China are combining to inspire a search for the best way to reach China’s increasingly affluent, increasingly independent... Read More

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Is Carnival Cruise Lines trying to muzzle social media?

By Dennis Schaal | December 15, 2009

UPDATE: Major reverse following original story. Carnival Cruise Lines intends to introduce a new travel agency policy that bars partners from using any Carnival trademark or intellectual property on... Read More

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Will Google Wave kill the trip planning sites?

By Stephen Joyce | December 14, 2009

It dawned on me recently that like so many other Google apps, Wave has the potential to disrupt the crowded trip planning site arena. It occurred to me that the tool would be particularly useful if I... Read More

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Solutionz gets social-media centric with GuestCentric Systems

By Dennis Schaal | December 7, 2009

Solutionz Media, a new venture by travel industry veterans Chicke Fitzgerald and Tiffany Topcik, partnered with GuestCentric Systems to go after business from independent hotels looking to enter into... Read More

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BigMouthMedia digital marketing survey - results show swing to social media

By Kevin May | November 26, 2009

BigMouthMedia recently carried out a survey in conjunction with Tnooz. The questionnaire was framed to gauge the opinion of industry professionals and their company's plans for marketing spend online... Read More

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Social media - why man is beating the machine

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | November 26, 2009

Not a day goes by these days that we don’t get something in our mail box about social media. If it’s not another article telling us how to incorporate it into our business strategy, it’s another webinar... Read More

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My unsolicited social-media advice for Continental Airlines

By Dennis Schaal | November 25, 2009

At 13:34 EST yesterday, I ranted in a post that Continental Airlines' social media response to the Aug. 8 Rochester, Minn., tarmac incident, in which passengers on Continental Express flight 2816 were... Read More

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Social media gap: DOT fines airlines on tarmac delay -- Continental Airlines what say you?

By Dennis Schaal | November 24, 2009

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation set a couple of precedents today as it fined Continental Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines $100,000 for their parts in causing passengers on Continental Express flight... Read More

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Long Tail Travel innovations at PhoCusWright 2009

By Stephen Joyce | November 17, 2009

It would seem that least a couple of the innovations in this year's list of thirty-four innovators presenting at PhoCusWright's second Travel Innovation Summit have some application to long tail travel... Read More

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