TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel guide service Off Track Planet.
Travel industry to boost spend on social media marketing in 2011
November 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
Social media is expected to feature strongly in marketing budgets across the travel industry in 2011, with online display likely to be the channel missing out.
TripBod takes Rough Guides founder as advisor, launches mobile app
November 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
Online destination advisory service TripBod has enlisted one of the heavyweights of travel book world with Rough Guides co-founder Martin Dunford joining its board.
Advertisement
TLabs Showcase – Virtual GDBK
November 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based trip planning and guidebook service Virtual GDBK.
OffBeatGuides shipping 10,000+ guides a month, thanks to Expedia
October 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
In the rush to create trip planning and content sites a few years ago, OffBeatGuides caught the attention because of its backer – a certain Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati.
Lonely Planet plugs tech jobs via video, but two key staffers go
September 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
Pretty commonplace for companies these days to produce a video clip to outline how wonderful it can be to take a job within the organisation.
Advertisement
BBC to integrate Lonely Planet content on new global website
July 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
Fans of the BBC around the world – but not the UK – will see an overhauled website in the coming months, complete with a new travel section courtesy of Lonely Planet.
Google buys online travel guide Ruba
May 22, 2010 By 22 Comments
Community site Ruba obviously has something different about it from the countless other travel guides on the web – demonstrated mainly by news that Google has just bought it.
Lonely Planet launches online bookstore assistant, but plays down Bangkok crisis
May 19, 2010 By 4 Comments
Guidebook giant Lonely Planet was hoping to extol the virtues of its new virtual sales rep system – but appears to be running into a storm of sorts with a decision to almost ignore the Bangkok riots.
Frommers launches travel assistance app for iPhone and iPad
April 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Travel content provider Frommers is the latest travel firm to launch a series of apps for the iPhone and iPad devices by Apple.
