Instead of recommandations from strangers on TripAdvisor or from professional writers who didn’t sleep in the hotels they write about, get recommandations from your friends. When one of my friends writes something about a place, it has a lot more impact on me because I know the person who wrote it and trust that person.
Tags: hotel reviews
A British tourist to his friend in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris:
- It looked better on Google Earth.
This is the kind of quotes you will find on the bright new blog Overheard While Traveling. The blog is very new and is now opened to submissions. So please share titbits of conversations you overheard on yout journeys.
Tags: overheard
…Insurance Compulsory ?
PS: This post celebrates the launch of Google Suggest of the day
Tags: google sugegst, travel
Voyageek regular readers are familiar with the Voyalinks, a regular category of posts where I share links to great travel content on the web. Well, I just discovered that Gadling, one of the bigegst Travel blog has started a new section called Gadlinks where they…share links to great travel content on the web.
If Gadling writers read Voyageek, then I am flattered, and if they came up with the same idea on their own, let’s say that great minds think alike.
One of the first interview from Robert Scoble new venture Building43
Tags: building43, hotel, scoble, twitter
http://www.facebook.com/aroundtheworld
http://www.facebook.com/flights
http://www.facebook.com/hotelier
http://www.facebook.com/holidays
http://www.facebook.com/tourism
http://www.facebook.com/travelagent
http://www.facebook.com/travelblogger
http://www.facebook.com/traveler
http://www.facebook.com/travelling
http://www.facebook.com/travelwriter
If you’ve seen another cool vanity url about traveling traveling, please share it in the comments.
Update: you need to be logged in to access some of the profiles.
Flying from Paris to Dublin seems like a short and easy trip. But with Ryanair it can become a long long journey. Let’s see how long a 1.30 flight from Paris to Beauvais on paper actually took.
My flight was at 9.30 am. But Ryanair is actually not flying from Paris but from a city called Beauvais, 70 km from Paris. To reach Beauvais airport, Ryanair relies on buses leaving from Porte Maillot in Paris to Beauvais Airport. Rynair recommands to arrive at the bus departue 3 hours 15 minutes before your flights. In my case I had to be there at 6.15 am and as Porte Maillot in 30 mn from the place where I stayed in Paris, my journey started at 5.45 pm.
My flight took off on schedule at 9.30 and we arrived on time in Dublin. I checked my watch just after I picked up my suitcase at Dublin airport and it read 11.15am ( French time). This means that 5 1/2 hours had passedsince we started out. But my journey didn’t end there. I don’t live at the airport. Actually I am pretty sure nobody does. If you add a 30 mn trip from Dublin airport to my house in Dublin, the real length of a Paris-Dublin trip with Ryanair took a whooping 6 hours!
One piece of advice though - if you are thinking of a city break in Paris, - have a think about the time you want to spend travelling before you choose airline.
Blogging is not a competition. Yet I always enjoyed blog rankings list. The guys at Invesp Consulting have launched something called Blogrank,which ranks blogs in several categories. It doesn’t have a travel category (yet?) but has a Hotel category. Last time I checked Happy Hotelier was number 1 again.
Tags: blogrank
Just Landed - 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo.
“This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.” [via John Chow].
I know it’s short notice, but Google is organising a FREE webinar on “how search can impact branding across five product categories: Air, Car Rental, Cruise, Hotel and Online Travel Agency.” So I thought some of you could be interested. The event will take place on Thursday, April 30, 2009 and all you need to do is to register here.
The info was given on the Adwords Agency Blog, so by search, it is understood that we are talking about paid search, not seo. I’ve attended some Google webinars before and if sometimes the sound is really bad, the content is very good.
PS: If you are interested in Travel and Search Marketing you might want to join the Online Travel Marketers group on ConversionR.
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