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UpTake Announces Travel Blog Network to add valuable ressources to readers and users.

UpTake has been quietly putting together a high quality Travel Blog Network. I am impressed by the job they have been done since PhoCusWright in November 2008 with Pat Jenkins starting to write in the Travel Industry Blog.

New Blog Network Features Six Key Travel Categories, Including Attractions, Beaches, Hotels Lodging, Restaurants and Travel Industry [...]

Popularity: 69% [?]

5 fév 2009 | Claude | 0 comments | Continued

Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors! And me, and me!

Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors, According to comScore

Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of Internet Users

China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World

The Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest share of global Internet users at 41 percent, followed by Europe (28 percent share), North America (18 percent share), Latin-America (7 percent [...]

Popularity: 48% [?]

26 jan 2009 | Claude | 1 comment | Continued

Travel Twitter Brand on the rise. Who’s next?

Travel Twitter Brand are coming to Twitter.
Some via their brand, some via some executive ou CEO who talk personnaly with this tool.
The mashup (click to enlarge) show us some leading brand (Expedia, Lastminute, Marriott, ….) and some DMO’s as well (Canadian Tourism Commission …) and of course the leading Travel 2.0 start-up (UpTake, TravelMuse, Triporati, [...]

Popularity: 33% [?]

22 jan 2009 | Claude | 1 comment | Continued

Intelligentransport by ERTICO-ITS Europe. YouTube video

A quick post to show you a great project made by an European consortium call i-Travel.
What is i-Travel?
i-Travel is an industry effort to provide a standard interface between a travel and travel information provider and a user on their mobile and handheld devices.
For travel businesses i-Travel will provide a virtual shop window by connecting all [...]

Popularity: 27% [?]

13 jan 2009 | Claude | 0 comments | Continued

People love deals On Line. DealBase give them a great answer.

When I was in PhoCusWright, I made an interview with Sam Shank, DealBase CEO

Sam previously founded and was CEO of TravelPost.com, the second-largest hotel review site (after TripAdvisor), which was acquired by SideStep and is now part of Kayak.

Sam, what was the keys advantage to use Dealbase?
DealBase is a travel deals web site [...]

Popularity: 26% [?]

13 jan 2009 | Claude | 1 comment | Continued

Canada-e-Connect eTourism Strategy Conference 2009.

Jaime Horwitz, Chair, Canada-e-Connect Advisory Committee, send me some interesting information about Canada-e-Connect eTourism Strategy Conference 2009

They have a great speakers panel and a 2 days program.

Here the information from Jaime about Canada e-Connect
The Tourism Industry Association of Canada is extremely pleased to be presenting Canada-e-Connect (CEC), Canada’s e-Tourism Strategy Conference on [...]

Popularity: 18% [?]

11 jan 2009 | Claude | 0 comments | Continued

Xotels is going on Netvibes with a useful Resource Center.

Xotels professional team is going on Netvibes and are in process to build a nice Resource Center for our hotels friends and partners.
They have compiled RSS feeds from major news channels, industry news sites and blogs as well as SEO & technology platforms. Patrick have selected for you the best of the best to keep [...]

Popularity: 38% [?]

5 jan 2009 | Claude | 3 comments | Continued