Travel Tips, Trips and Traps: Update

Travel Tips, Trips and Traps: Update In Travel, It’s Mobile That’s Seeing All The Growth Compared to overall online retail sales, online growth for travel is slow, indicating maturity in the market. However, the US mobile travel market is growing more quickly, and the number of mobile users booking travel on their ...

The Brave, The Bold and The Travel Brands Americans Love

The Brave, The Bold and The Travel Brands Americans  Love No, price isn’t everything in travel. It counts for a great deal in making travel decisions, but those merchants of “low, low prices” are missing the point. What seems to drive travel choices is the ability for the traveler to connect with ...

New Media Travel Now on Travel Weekly’s Blog Roll

For those that follow the travel industry, Travel Weekly is recognized as the publication that covers travel for travel professionals. So. we're pretty proud to say that Travel Weekly has picked New Media Travel to add to its distinguished Blog Roll, where we keep company with the BBC, Arthur Frommer, Bill ...

No, The Travel Agent is Not Dead

Contrary to Reports, The Travel Agent is Not Dead A couple of blocks from where I live is a a storefront travel agency. Been there for quite a while, as long as I can remember, anyway. The space is crammed with brochures, books, all kinds of magazines and old posters. It’s almost ...

Travel’s Problem With Pinterest

Travel’s Problem With Pinterest First, we’re glad Pinterest backtracked.  Pinterest’s  pinmeister and co-founder,  Ben Silberman, is no longer asking  followers to " avoid self promotion." The CEO and his fellow pinners are saying that  the Pinterest etiquette that frowned on pinning ones own content, is dead. Originally, the fast-growing site wanted its members, ...

Ottawa, Canada: Sound-Rich, Travel Audio PostCard

Ottawa, Canada's capital, is a quiet, unassuming city with a quiet elegance and lots to do, especially for families. We invite you to sit back and listen to this sound-rich Audio PostCard from Ottawa. [audio http://travelvideopostcard.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ottawa_travel_audio_postcard.mp3]  

How BlogFrog Monetizes the Massive Influence of Women Bloggers

How BlogFrog Monetizes the Massive Influence of Women Bloggers How do you get to be called the largest women-blogger network in the country? You believe in what BlogFrog CEO and co-founder , Rustin Banks, says: “Elevated authentic editorial brought to you by a brand is the future.” What’s he talking about? He’s talking about ...

Why Companies Stress Brand Promotion Over Customer Service

Why Companies Stress Brand Promotion Over Customer Service You can’t blame travel suppliers and companies for their myopia. For all too many years they’ve had a Pavlovian response to their brands: promote them, and get around to taking care of customers later. Or maybe never. In spite of all the brouhaha that suggested ...

How One Family Learned to Give Up Electronics and Love Aruba w/Video

How One Family learned to Give Up Electronics and Love Aruba Kim Orlando loves to travel. She should, she's the CEO of travelingmom.com and she especially loves to travel with her family. When the idea of a family trip to Aruba came up, Orlando knew she wanted to go and, better still, ...

Happy Birthday, Titanic! w/video

Long Live the Titanic! w/video “God Himself could not sink this ship,” a  crewman of the Titanic said to one Mrs. Albert Campbell, as she boarded the ship in Southampton, England In May 1911, the RMS Titanic gracefully slid  into  the bustling harbor of  Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she was built by ...

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