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

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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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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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Kevin May at Travolution started a meme at the weekend asking where travel industry bloggers like to go on holiday. Top five. I’ll play.
That’ll be (stream of consciousness, you understand, so I am not sitting here all day debating it):

 Arisaig, Scotland
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
St Paul, Minnesota
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
South Beach, Miami

The fact that several of the places which popped [...]

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Who pulls out the Rants & Raves on the Trip Advisor front page and will they take a bung to add or remove your hotel? That was my first thought when I saw the new-look site. Maybe these highlighted quotes have been there all along but now the front page has been de-cluttered, there’s no [...]

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These sort of gestures are not usually for me but Timothy O’Neil-Dunne (who I last talked to in Redmond back in the last century) over at the T2 Impact blog calls for us all to back the red shirt for Myanmar protest tomorrow and I am going to turn my wardrobe upside down to find [...]

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There is a good post in Travolution about the joy of blogs and search engine optimisation. Kevin May points out that the Travel-Rants blog can currently be found in second place on a Google search for “flight search engine” without, as Kevin puts it, any special investment. It certainly underlines the SEO impact of a [...]

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On the subject of Petra, I am really glad to say the doors are now open on the Petra Blog, which we have just launched on behalf of the Jordan National Tourist Office. The idea is to provide a central point of information on the ancient city, to aggregate visitor content as they publish their [...]

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Back to the Atlantis launch, I am very impressed with the way Veoh, the photo sharing site, has developed. It doesn’t have the exposure of YouTube but it does have some great tools. Take a look at this customised page for the new SeaWorld ride, for example.
Kami Huyse explains some of Veoh’s strengths.
Time Savings: [...]

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Travolution has news of a very useful report on the impact of critical results bubbling up in travel searches.
Over half of British online consumers will turn immediately to a competitor if they see negative reviews of a travel business in search engine results.
The survey by digital marketing agency Tamar said 58% of users would make [...]

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I am becoming more interested, almost to the point of obsession, about the potential use of video on travel sites. This report on Travel Mole, reinforces the case for using rich, visual presentations on your hotel web site.
An amazing 61.4% of 192 respondents to MiMegasite.com’s latest poll said they would choose a meeting property based [...]

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The new Journey to Atlantis site is hugely impressive, not least because it is built on WordPress. Kami Huyse and Josh Hallett have all the details.
I would like to find a WordPress savvy designer close at hand who could produce that sort of work. If I don’t, I shall look further afield. And just to [...]

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