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Internet Video Marketing for Travel & Hospitality: Why

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0000

http://www.fathomseo.com/hospitalityvideo/ – Learn how different businesses in the travel and hospitality industry can benefit from online videos. Internet video marketing for travel & hospitality allows you to gain traffic and effectively promote your hotel, golf resort, day spa, or travel bureau online. Fathom SEO shows you how Internet Video Marketing for Travel & Hospitality can expand your business. To learn more about how Fathom SEO’s Internet video marketing and Internet video production offerings can help your travel & hospitality business, visit http://www.fathomseo.com/hospitalityvideo/.

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Travel 2.0 Social Media – Why Should You Use Social Media with Tourism and hotel marketing

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:03:15 +0000

http://www.powerfulvideomarketing.com

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Future Travel Industry Online Marketing Business opportunities in travel, airline industry, tourism, hotels and hospitality. Instant online booking systems that combine all hotels / villas / apartments / flights

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:42:11 +0000

http://www.globalchange.com Future Travel Industry Online Marketing Business opportunities in travel, airline industry, tourism, hotels and hospitality. Still too hard to find hotels, villas, apartments online. Online marketing trends – hotels, holidays, airlines, restaurants and vacation packages. How aviation industry model can be used to sell hotel rooms, villas, resorts, holiday rental apartments. Ways to improve online marketing in business travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Brochures and travel agents look last-century. Instant online booking systems showing total availability of accommodation, car hire, flight seats and so on. Corporate travellers require fast access to all information and ordinary tourists are also becoming very demanding. Need for fuller information while searching. Comment by Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon. Online travel bookings future of travel agents, impact of Web 2.0 online communities such as TripAdvisor. Expect radical changes to pricing structures for all large hotels, flights etc live auctions and dynamic pricing models. Expect slow death of mass market package holdays. Future of cruise market will be healthy ever larger ships will become destinations in their own right.

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Eos wins World’s Leading Business Class Only Airline

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:42:06 +0000

Andrew Menkes, Senior Vice President at Eos Airlines picks up World’s Leading Business Class Only Airline for what Menkes sees as a unique experience in the air and that Eos is a lifestyle experience. The global World Travel Awards ceremony took place at the Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort & Spa on the island of Providenciales in the Caribbean with the best in entertainment that the globe had to offer. Winners and nominees from over 30 countries from across the world flew in to collect their awards. Todd Newton and Adrienne Janic from the E! Entertainment channel hosted the event, as did one of the stars from the hit U.S. TV show CSI Miami, Eva La Rue.

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Capture client info and custom questions during online sales

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:19:51 +0000

Overview of how the Adventureengine reservation system and online sales can capture customized client information during check out and how operators can use this to run reports, marketing emails (filter by trip and client email addresses for email blasts), client statements and more.
These are the tools that save operators endless hours of data entry!
Adventure Engine is a web based reservation & distribution system
for tourism operators worldwide. They work with 100′s of world class operators, over 1000 international commissioned trips ready for agents. Adventure Engine offers services to tourism operators like ability to upgrade their website in a day to sell trips online, unlimited sales portals for partner sites, inventory management, reporting, commission setting, statements, free unlimited training and support, agent login & distribution to thousands of agents, multi currency solutions, includes online merchant account (or use your own)
And Hundreds of other features…………..
www.adventureengine.com

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Gay Marketing Masterclass 2008 by Out Now at London WTM World Travel Market

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:20:01 +0000

Leading gay and lesbian marketing experts, Out Now, present their 2008 Gay Marketing Masterclass at London WTM World Travel Market. More info? Goto http://www.OutNowConsulting.com and http://www.GayComfort.com + for the latest gay and lesbian market research data and gay marketing strategy updates, visit http://www.GayMarketNews.com . Gay Marketing is Out Now.

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World Travel Awards 2005: Leading Biz Hotel: Conrad Istanbul

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:19:59 +0000

Assad Farag, General Manager of the Conrad Istanbul picks up the World’s Leading Business Hotel Award at the World Travel Awards.

This video interview is from the World Travel Awards 2005 gala ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London.

Trophies for the awards were given out at a gala ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House, which was broadcast globally by BBC World, Discovery Channel and the Arab Travel Channel, as well as other media outlets across the globe.

It was a night to remember as the 500 guests enjoyed the presence of TV personalities Ruby Wax and Maureen Lipman, as well as performances by Cirque de Soleil and London’s West End smash hit musical “Dancin’ in the Street.”

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Online Marketing Tips: Travel & Hospitality Industry Video

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:51:02 +0000

Li Evans of SearchMarketingGurus.com and KeyRelevance explains 5 online marketing tips for the travel, tourism & hospitality industry. Discussion of websites, social media and reviews to help businesses market themselves online.

Full transcription at http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com/search_marketing_gurus/online_marketing_tips_videos/index.html

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HSMAI Adrian Awards 2009: The Best in Travel Advertising, Public Relations and Web Marketing

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:15 +0000

In the current economic climate, hospitality industry and agency professionals have given 110 percent to marketing, advertising and public relations programs and have gotten extremely creative to produce results. The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) will recognize those who went above and beyond in the past year with the 53rd annual HSMAI Adrian Awards

The HSMAI Adrian Awards recognize achievements in advertising, web marketing and public relations in the hospitality, travel and tourism industries. The HSMAI Adrian Awards continue to capture and showcase industry achievers and ROI-producing materials from hotels, airlines, attractions, car rental companies, casinos, convention centers, cruise lines, destinations, restaurants, and spas, as well as time share and extended stay properties and industry suppliers.

Winning entries will be honored at the Adrian Awards Gala, a black-tie networking extravaganza that will be held February 1, 2010 at the New York Marriott Marquis, and will be showcased in the Adrian Awards online winners’ gallery.

The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) presented the winners in its 52nd annual Adrian Awards at the Marriott Marquis in New York City on Monday night. The Adrian Awards honor the top companies and individuals in hospitality, travel and tourism advertising, public relations and web marketing.

The evening, emceed by Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Bruce Himelstein, Vice President and CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Kim Schaller and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Fairmont Raffles Jeff Senior, also featured specialty awards from DEPARTURES Magazine, Google, Tourism Cares and TravelCLICK.

“HSMAI congratulates our 2008 winners, who represent a group of hard-working and talented leaders,” said Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHA, president and CEO of HSMAI. “The Adrian Awards is a time to celebrate our achievements as an industry.”

The 2008 Adrian Awards received nearly 1,300 entries from around the globe. The prestigious Platinum winners were judged to be the most extraordinary from a field of 100 Gold winners. And out of those awarded Platinum, the highest distinction of Best of Show for the divisions of advertising, public relations and web marketing went to:

Founded in 1957, the Adrian Awards embraces every segment of the industry, including hotels, airlines, cruise lines, car rental companies, destinations, credit card companies and more. Winners are selected from a field of 1,300 entries by senior industry and media experts.

Visit http://www.adrianawards.com to reserve your seat at the 2010 Gala.

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HSMAI Digital Travel Marketing Workshop Preview

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:22:02 +0000

Preview HSMAI’s workshop: Digital Strategy for Travel Marketing & Distribution, Dec. 7, 2009, The Wynn Las Vegas.

In these challenging economic times, the opportunities for growing your business via digital marketing, distribution, and eCommerce remain an area of opportunity with strategies and tactics at your disposal to book business, capture demand, create value, and engage customers. A new workshop from the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI), December 7, 2009, at the Wynn Las Vegas ,will include several modules to cover strategies and tactics you can implement immediately and plan for the future; ideas for how you can organize your team(s) to handle this whether your business is a Brand, CVB, DMO, Management Company, or Property Ownership Group; and, several up and comers that are worthy of consideration for your 2009 needs.

This session, being held in conjunction with the annual HEDNA conference, will help you set up the appropriate strategies and tactics to insure that you maximize your return in CRM, Digital Marketing, Distribution, eCommerce and Revenue Management programs. You will leave this program with several tactics you can deploy right away as well as key thoughts for your 2010 and beyond business planning.

The workshop will be lead by David Atkins, Principal of Digital DNA Infusion – Your Digital Experts Network, and incoming Chair of the HSMAI Americas Board of Directors. David has a deep passion for all things digital. His significant experience, on and offline, has including working with industry-leading companies such as ABC, American Express, CBS, Citysearch, Disney, eBay, Google, Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, Monster, MSN, NBC/Universal, Outrigger Hotels, Ticketmaster, Starwood, and Yahoo.

For more information, visit: http://hsmai.org/Events/event.cfm?id=1804

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