Where Have All the Online Travelers Gone?

Remember, humans are lazy. Start confusing them and making them do additional research and this is what happens.

Travel Trends – BA Ads, Hispanics Online

New BA Ad Campaign – You can’t say they are not trying.  Despite a very well publicized grand opening disaster, British Airways is determined to make the world fall in love with Terminal 5 at Heathrow.  Our friends at Travolution have a great post on the new ad campaign, in which photos from the terminal [...]

All About twitter

Ah, back to business.  Let’s finish up a post that we have been writing for a few weeks…and would have finished weeks ago, if it was not for whole Blogger snafu.
Twitter.  Certainly a very big buzz word for the past several months (years, if you have been paying close attention) and one that will probably [...]

Travel 2.0 Is Back

After a long delay, the Travel 2.0 blog is back and we are writing furiously to catch up.
As many of you know, we experienced a major issue with our hosting service at Blogger and have moved the blog…posts, comments and all…to the WordPress platform.
So far, we like it.  A little getting use to, but overall [...]

Virginia Wins the Great Travel Site Showdown

Well, the Great Travel Site Showdown has finally concluded and Virginia has edged out the fine state of Michigan to take the title.
Total Votes: 60,827
Michigan: 27,698 (45%)
Virginia: 33,129 (54%)
It was a long, hard-fought battle with way to much hype and PR coverage…including TV news broadcasts… but hey, we will take it.
Congrats to Virginia, consider this [...]

Random Thoughts: (Video, in this case) Nokia Re-draws the Map

Ah Wieden + Kennedy, do you ever stop producing cool spots? Check out the new Nokia ad, highlighting the oh-so un-tech, old school method of drawing maps. Drawing is what we did before Wii, kids. (Reading via RSS? Check out the video on the Travel 2.0 blog.)

Word of the Week – Cuil

Pronounced “cool”, Cuil is a new search engine built by Anna Patterson, a search engine wiz who used to work at Google. While there was a lot of hype and excitement about the launch of the site, those seeking an alternative search engine might have to temper their enthusiasm a bit.
While there are some [...]

Take Control of Your Website

There are many reasons why corporate and artist sites should not carry advertising. But the most obvious one is that outside ads change the conversation. In one of the few places that a marketer can completely control their message; they’re sharing the stage with outsiders who have a different agenda. >>Full Story

Thoughts// This interesting [...]