The Travel PR Blog

I just updated my slides for a presentation next Tuesday.

Today’s score:

Google results for "sex" = 239,000,000

Google results for "blogs" = 414,000,000

I never quite understand why that happens. But I am glad it does.

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Good grief. It’s only been a few days since we discussed freebie travel trips for bloggers (here, here and here) and now word comes from Media Post (via Philippe) that Netherlands tourism has put together its first bloggers’ junket.

With help from the BlogAds network, they invited twenty five bloggers (a large group compared to most [...]

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Few travel web sites manage to insert any sense of personality to their brand. And I particularly mean the idea of a human being toiling away at the cliff face to bring you the best travel deals on the internet.
Sure we know the reality is all those search through airline reservation systems and room configurations [...]

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The Google Blog tells us they’ve added six inch imagery for much of the UK to  much of the imagery in Google Local.
By way of proof they offer this stunning image of Buckingham Palace on one of the few days when some publicity-hungry, doped-up nutter was not deliberately ramming the gates with his  car.
If you [...]

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According to the Register, who got it from the BBC, MySpace is on its way to the UK and it’s time to lock up our daughters. Or something.
Although, as the Reg implies, much of the material on MySpace comprises “moralistic rantings, crushes and fashion and hairstyling disasters”  this will still have a significant impact on [...]

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I get very animated at the thought of all the new geocoding and tagging features being rolled out and the impact they will have on communications.
Ogle Earth recently posted about Navizon, a mobile peer to peer positioning system which lets users interact with each other, and about its new tagging function.
This lets people leave virtual [...]

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Here’s an amazing statistic from the latest McKinsey Quarterly report and Ten trends to watch in 2006:
12 percent of US newlyweds last year met online.
  And how many newly-divorced I wonder?
  Anyway, two lines down, a more significant stat:
We do a billion Google searches a day, more than half
in languages other than English.
  I [...]

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The NY Times piece on business travel blogs discussed a couple of reasons why they have failed to take off so far: lack of time to blog while on the road and fear of giving a competitor useful information about what they were up to.
I sense the first will change with the increased roll-out of [...]

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Chatsum launched with a limited beta test today. Like QuickChat, this is another Firefox extension which lets you message another user while browsing the same web page.
However, Chatsum lets you go further with the ability to leave messages and comments on a site for anyone coming after you to read.
Imagine the implications. You search [...]

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Just to continue our travel PR conversation and the issue of free trips for bloggers.
Robert Scoble just revealed how many products have been passed his way for review, including the very covetable Nokia N90 and a slew of great tablet pcs.
Does getting free stuff change my opinions? Of course! For one, I now have real-world [...]

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Achieving a decent passport photo of yourself, which both matches the legal requirements and coincides with a good hair day is tough enough but have you ever tried to meet all the criteria for a baby’s passport photo? And have you ever tried to do it in one of those photo booths?
Trying to hold an [...]

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Hugh over at Blog Relations takes up the theme and explains why a lot of  travel coverage is flawed.

If you’ve ever wondered why the travel pages are so dreadfully dull, it’s because of the corrupt relationship between journalists and the travel companies who pay for them to go on free trips which they then write [...]

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