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Entries from November 2005

Travelocity’s RSS delivery service

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off

Diane Clarkson from Jupiter Research, is one of several commentators who have remarked on the future importance of RSS to the travel business.
 
Yesterday she revealed Travelocity has launched a customized RSS feed to tell you when they’ve found lower fares on your subscribed routes. She says:
 
These highly targeted messages are a great example of how RSS can be leveraged in [...]

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Brand cavalry

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off

A bad-mouthing hierarchy seems to have just been established on the new Word of Mouth training blog [...]

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New capital venturing towards online travel

November 29th, 2005 · Comments Off

Is this a misprint? According to a piece on MSNBC about new venture capital and the online travel business (worth reading),  Greg Jones, who sits on the board of both TravelPost and Viator is quoted as saying:
 
I don’t really care what [...]

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Pennsylvania’s bloggers to hit the road again

November 17th, 2005 · Comments Off

Back in July, I mentioned Pennsylvania’s blogging experiment when the tourist authorities let half a dozen tourists/couples/families roam the state, writing about their experiences along the way. 
 
It’s something I have discussed with a couple of other tourist organisations so I was glad to catch up with Richard Bonds this week at World Travel Market.
 
Bonds is executive director of tourism [...]

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