What Really Goes on in the Cockpit: This Week’s Travel Tips, Trips and Traps

This Week’s Travel Tips, Trip and Traps Top Ten Things Airlines Don't Tell You Do pilots and flight attendants have relationships in the air? What do pilots do when they have to take a pee? What goes on in that sacred space, the cockpit? Away.com thinks you’d like to know, and we would. So ...

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 ...

The Road to Baghdad: The Desert Castles

Road to Baghdad Please join us in this moving and authentic Audio Postcard from the desert castles of Jordan. These simple but magnificent structures, lonely in the desert, were once the havens of desert princes and their falcons This Audio PostCard from New Media Travel is lovely and powerful Road to Baghdad[audio:http://newmediatravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Road-to-Baghdad9.mp3|titles=Road to Baghdad]

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 ...

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