This is not your grandpa’s choo choo train! SilverRail Technologies is transforming the rail market by creating the first global search & ticketing platform for the $300B passenger rail industry. Rail is experiencing a global growth explosion: trains now travel up to 350mph, governments are investing hundreds of billions of dollars, and high speed trains are stealing major market share...
Kukunu, founded by an Ex Amazon and a Physics PhD, has been selected to present at The Travel Innovation Summit, taking place at The PhoCusWright Conference (November 16-18, 2010 in Phoenix, Ariz., USA). Since launching their beta service in July, thousands of travelers have planned their trips on Kukunu. The team has been working closely with users to further develop their service and remove friction...
Thanks to David Parker Brown, I was alerted to a security situation on American Airlines flight 24 (AA24), bound to New York from San Francisco as someone had called in a threat to the jetliner. Thankfully, within a few hours all passengers had de-planed and gone through security checks and no one was hurt. Crises Management 2.0 – Live on Twitter! While the situation was unfolding, there were...
Update: airBaltic has kindly agreed to fly in the winners of this contest to London for FREE, from anywhere on their network! All you have to do is fulfill the conditions below, and follow airBaltic on Twitter. Social media is increasingly becoming a tool of strategic competitive advantage for airlines. Delta Airlines now sells tickets on Facebook. Virgin America uses Twitter to launch new routes and...
Last week, we started a two-part guest post from Juliette Reynolds. Today, the conclusion of that post with more actionable recommendations on local knowledge, 'now' media and simplicity. Part 1 is available here: Guest Post: How to Redesign Your Site with Social in Mind Local knowledge If you can afford the investment that subject-matter expert bloggers bring to your site, I highly recommend it....
By now, most of us have heard that the Web is social, but are you taking action to encourage social actions on your blog or website? Of course we can socialize with our fans and followers on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and the like, but now even our websites and blogs can become places where social actions can bring big benefits. Three Steps to Earning Tweets and Likes Step 1: Create great content,...
By now, most of us have heard that the Web is social, but are you taking action to encourage social actions on your blog or website? Of course we can socialize with our fans and followers on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and the like, but now even our websites and blogs can become places where social actions can bring big benefits. Step 1: Create great content, stuff that gets people excited, interested...
This Week in Travel Tech: Social Recap, Vintage Posters, Comic Sans, Tweets, #blackpeople and JetBlue. Four On Friday: Social Media Recap - Social Mediarology Yes, we are aware that we are reading another list, but this one is from our counterpart in Indiana, Jeremy Williams. Good stuff. Vintage U.S. Parks Posters - National Geographic A gorgeous excuse to change your desktop wallpaper. Cavs owner's...
Today, the first part of a two part series on site design and social media from our good friend and savvy techie, Juliette Reynolds. I am sure many of you will recognize Juliette's name from her time and great work at Miles Media. Excited to have her unique perspective on such a popular topic. Thanks for the guest post Jules. So you’re about to undertake the greatly anticipated redesign of...
A new theory for measuring the impact of visitors. Last week, we wrote a piece for our partners at Tnooz proposing a new strategic approach for DMOs, 'The New DMO Strategy' or, per the editor 'A new destination marketing organization strategy involving the tripecho.' In the column, we talked specifically about an idea referred to as the tripecho, a theory that the value of a visitor does not end with...