Remember the days when often a city’s tourist centre had a few dusty leaflets, outdated maps on the walls and staff that looked bored rigid by the entire experience?
How a tourism board made its visitor centre look and feel like an Apple Store
January 30, 2012 By 16 Comments
MySwitzerland social media video – funny, very clever, but does it boost visitor numbers?
January 27, 2012 By 7 Comments
Tourism Queensland discovered that it takes more than the gushing of the advertising industry to ensure a high profile marketing campaign was actually worthwhile.
Could new top level domains provide funding for tourism organisations?
January 16, 2012 By 6 Comments
As we enter a brave new world of top-level domain names (TLDs), brought upon by the recent approval and registration process from ICANN, what are the opportunities for DMOs and CVBs?
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Where next with technology for tourism boards and destination marketing organisations?
December 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
In late 2010, we interviewed 650 destination marketing organizations to determine what they had in the way of tools for delivering web content to visitors.
What else? Guestlogix air merchandising, Israeli lights, Facebook airports, Stay.com friends
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Guestlogix and Southwest merchandising, Israeli tourism board lights up, Facebook IDs social airports, Stay.com lets friends create. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.
Karibu Games wants to bring gaming into the heart of online travel
December 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Spain-based Karibu Games, a gaming development company targeting travel, tourism and hospitality brands.
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Imagine what a tourism board could do to its greatest attractions with this technology
December 11, 2011 By 6 Comments
Dismiss for a moment the fact that it’s an ad for mobile handset manufacturer LG, this quite extraordinary use of 3D film and lights in a live setting has enormous potential in travel.
Wake up and smell the change in the coffee. Please.
October 3, 2011 By 4 Comments
Developments in information and communication technologies are boosting the pace of change in the tourism and hospitality industry and the pressure to compete for customers on a global scale is increasing constantly.
How a destination used both mobile web and app, but the app won handsomely
September 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
I am always intrigued how tourism organisations that aren’t clients are approaching their mobile strategy, so was interested to hear how one in particular has found its native application performs five times better than its mobile site.
VisitEngland websites saga rumbles on
September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Eviivo to carry on pricing and availability service to tourist boards and other businesses affected by VisitEngland’s decision to end ‘financial and operational support’ for EnglandNet platform
