The Travel PR Blog

Ha! From the TechCrunch comments about Tripr, the new hotel video site

Did no one at Tripr check the meaning of their name in Germany? “Tripper” (spelled differently, but pronounced the same) means “gonorrhea”. Something you definitely don’t want to get when on a trip abroad. [From Tripr.TV: Get Paid For Hotel Videos]

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Couldn’t help noticing the background of the new Labour YouTube channel is a graduated red, rather than a solid Labour red. A few old boys might be spluttering into their brown ale at that (if they new what the hell YouTube is).

This week, the You Choose ‘08 platform, our hub for American political [...]

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A live video feed of Old Faithful.
[From National Park Service Unveils Old Faithful Webcam]

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Old friends and acquaintances have been roped in to a new online travel service called TravelGuru.tv, reporting on destinations around the world for your visual pleasure (and possibly your wallet’s ultimate distress).
While I was really looking forward to watching David Wickers cast an acerbic eye over some dire theme park or Paul Gogarty skewer the [...]

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The scheme allows customers to offset carbon emissions on flights and protects rainforest in Brazil. The airline is also backing research into the effects of aircraft’s non-carbon emissions. [From News: BA launches "one click" offsetting scheme - Marketing Week]

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News of a survey by comScore and Google UK looking at the buying and searching habits of online UK travellers. Of course, relying on Google for data on the importance of search is a bit like asking the Japanese whaling fleet to count the population of minkes (”lots! you wouldn’t believe it!”) but the survey [...]

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I am really interested in the potential uses of live streaming video, particularly in crisis communications.
Of course, a consumer with live streaming video on their mobile could be the reason for your crisis in the first place.

startups offering live streaming from mobile phones is something we’ll no doubt see more of this year. [...]

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Now people planning their vacations over here will be able to see just how much rain we get.

The Weather Channel Interactive is offering a new mapplet for Google Maps that lets people add customizable weather layers to maps and see weather data on Google Earth. [From Rain and shine hit Google Maps and [...]

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Yesterday I experimented with NetNewsWire. It’s changed a lot since I first looked at it. I liked it - a lot - and had just decided to switch over and pay up when - they made it free!

RSS reader NetNewsWire left beta today with the official 3.1 release and news that the popular [...]

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Must be our hot and steamy climate which drives them to crime.

The 10 most common foreign cities in which Americans are arrested
1. Tijuana: 520
2. Guadalajara: 416
3. Nuevo Laredo: 359
4. London: 274
5. Mexico City: 208
6. Toronto: 183
7. Nassau, Bahamas: 108
8. Merida, Mexico: [...]

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Thanks for the reminder Martin.
A few weeks ago I was persuaded to write something for an inflight mag about the revived WYWH. It’s always good to see Judith C. but this was the first time I’ve talked to son Mark. Nice guy, shame about the chocolate eclair habit.
We kicked off with a classic 70’s image [...]

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I really like the look of this:

Having run through a couple of beta releases, it’s now prime time for FileMaker’s consumer-level organizer DB: Bento is shipping today in advance of Macworld Expo. The “database for soccer moms” product is $49 for a single user license, $99 for a family pack. We’ve got screen [...]

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