The Travel PR Blog

Is this going to be the most popular viral of the year? See how long you can resist elfing yourself for a loved one. Or maybe elfing the boss.

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Ok, this is v. geeky. I am writing this in TextEdit, saving it as a rich text file. Then I use the email to Google Documents function to send it directly into Gdocs.
And there it is.
Now I can use Google documents to post it to this blog.
Of course, if I had access to the internet [...]

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Of course I can’t just rely on Pixsy as a gateway to the travel pages. For one thing it doesn’t include content from the Guardian. And as Antony Mayfield points out today, they’ve just redesigned the site, both for clarity and to include more user content.
It’s certainly bigger and brighter but then so are the [...]

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Is that a flying pig?No, it’s even more unlikely. The Spanish airline Iberia is commencing flights into Gibraltar from 16 December.

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When I used to write travel articles, I would occasionally fall victim to a bit of dodgy sub-editing (yes, I do know the difference between a terrine and a tureen).  After a while I took comfort in the observation that most people just looked at the pictures anyway. My new favourite way of scanning the [...]

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Ed Fladung writes about using online resources to help plan his honeymoon . He says Flickr has helped fill in the visual gaps left after reading the guidebooks. This is one of the most powerful feature of social sharing sites and a challenge to traditional brochure images. Soon it will be possible to get [...]

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Avi Alkalay has updated his plug-in to add inline Google maps to WordPress posts.
So of course I just had to give it a try, didn’t I?
Glasgow Airport
I chose Glasgow airport for my little test because I seem to spend a lot of time there these days.

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I just discovered Shorttext is available as a Firefox extension. Shorttext is a quick and dirty way to send and share ideas with friends and colleagues. Just copy and paste some text, hit the button and Shorttext gives you a URL to distribute. Like this example. Another of those freebies which will hardly change [...]

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If you use Backpack to get things done, you really ought to know about Voicenotes from CellTell. This brilliant services allows you to leave flash-enabled voice messages on one of your Backpack pages using a regular phone line or Skype. Register your phone online, then dial their special number and a robot (ok, that’s what [...]

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It’s not enough to show the lowest airfare. To succeed in the online travel business, a supplier needs to persuade you that you really don’t need to go anywhere else to check the competition. People don’t just want bargains; they also don’t want to waste time comparison shopping.
Farecast has just introduced a new feature called [...]

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Have you seen VideoJug? It allows Joe Public (that’s us) to post short how-to videos online, YouTube style, about any subject in which we might have an interest or, hopefully, competence. On the principle that it’s often better to show people than tell them - which is why Claire likes her look’n’cook books - it deserves [...]

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The thing I like about Google’s customise your own search engine service is it lets people create truly useful sites which will serve you up concentrated results, mostly without spammy distractions. Mark Hodson, a regular of the Sunday Times travel section, has created his own version for travel articles. It’s very useful though after a couple [...]

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