The Travel PR Blog

I am sorry I missed the Travolution Summit last week (slight case of being in the wrong country at the time). By way of compensation, I can now watch a video featuring a long line of industry personalities talking about the major challenges faced by the travel industry over the next twelve months. It’s good [...]

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Occasionally I brainstorm different ways to use Google Earth with travel companies, from mapping safari routes to pinpointing hotels to marking the start of a walking trail. Although the technical side is not particularly tough, it is time consuming and anything which lightens the load has to be celebrated. That’s why I was glad to [...]

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I love the idea of inflight language lessons, as mentioned in this week’s Springwise newsletter. Seems like a truly useful thing to try on the long flight to Seoul, Sao Paulo or Tokyo.
Naturally, you wouldn’t expect to be fluent on touch down at Narita and, for the sake of neighbours watching the Bond movie, students would have to keep a lid on their [...]

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I just had a coffee with MediaWeek; no, the magazine not the staff - although I was in a Starbucks approximately 50 yards from its publisher.
Anyway, I notice ITV is adding Holidays Reunited to its Friends Reunited family. The social networking site will let people get in touch with friends (Spanish waiters? Greek playboys?) they [...]

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Am I seeing things? I am sure last time I looked, you couldn’t access Google Reader direct from Google Mail. I am positive I had to get there via My Services. Good, that probably saves me about five hours a year in clicking time. Or something.

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Want another reason not to go on holiday? Who is sick is a mash-up combining maps and health information which has now added international data. 
Great. Now next time you suffer disabling stomach cramps on holiday, not to mention vomiting and diarrhea, and the local doctor tells you there’s a lot of it about, he will be able to pull [...]

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Virgin Trains is trying to entice frequent flyers onto their carriages with a tempting offer. Submit used boarding passes for a journey between Glasgow, Manchester or Liverpool and London and they will swap them for a first class ticket. I will certainly take them up on that deal - as soon as I have [...]

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My other shopping story of the day is a load of pants (aka. underpants for American speakers). The Aircomplane blog which, more or less, does what it says on the tin, has launched a line of branded items including boxer shorts with the aircomplane.com logo. I struggle to think of a situation when I [...]

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I doubt if there will be a rush of travel companies declaring an interest but Google Checkout has just launched over here in the UK. As a little carrot to encourage retailers to sign up Google will now waive processing charges on sales until next year. And just to prod the rest of us into [...]

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I don’t know whether this is funny or if I should be embarrassed but I was reading Fred Wilson’s blog in my feed reader the other day and lo, the twitter entry which popped up to illustrate the piece was one of mine. Unless Google Reader is taking personalisation to a new and pretty extreme [...]

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I have never noticed Google Mars before. Sorry if this is olde worlde news but I find the images they serve up fascinating. The big Goog got together with NASA researchers at Arizona State University to create "some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made". Can’t argue with that. Sadly it probably [...]

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