04/13/2007
Complain about your airline experiences...
...on Aircomplane.com.
Discover via TravelPRBlog et added to boardinGate !21:21 Posted in Blogs , boardinGate , Travel and blogs , Travel Conversation | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
07/11/2006
Building a Blog Strategy in Hospitality
from Jason Price et Max Starkov
The ease and ubiquity of blogs and their application in hotel marketing deserves a closer look. Must we act on such bold statements as “blogs are the future” and “a blog is a marketing must”? Also, what are the implications for blogs in hospitality? Should creating a blog become part of your own hotel marketing mix? Does hospitality require a different blog strategy than in other verticals? Are there alternatives to blogs? Can a blog help you differentiate your services and de-commoditize your product? What role does a blog serve if at all and what are the pros and cons of developing a blog strategy? The ideas discussed in this article could help hoteliers conceptualize the creation of a blog strategy.
13:05 Posted in Blogs , boardinGate , boardinGlobe , Hotels , Internet 2.0 , RSS , Travel and blogs , Travel Professionals | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
06/23/2006
BoardinGate on Hotel blog
Hotel blog is going through 20 blogs which the main topic is "Travel and Hospitality" ! After Travolution, last week, boardinGate's blog have been selected.There are still 18 blogs to discover for the coming weeks then... Congratulation for this initiative Guillaume. We'll definetely follow it by RSS :) . read the interview here !
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04/05/2006
Podcast & Tourisme
Travel & podcasts
Few months ago, we spoke about Galveston.com's podcast and it seems that the phenomenon of podcasting is growing up within the travel sector.
Few examples :
-Virgin proposes some podcasts by destination
-EUROSTAR has launched is podcast with Skynet.be in september
-with the Lonely Planet travelcast, you'll be able to listen to conversations with Lonely Planet authors on the road
Travel & blogs
Blogs are relevant promotional support to discover a destination : see Newyorkology.com, a blog dedicated to the Big Apple (via Claude ); blogs can be used as well to present an activity and to develop the customer relation : Tsarabanjina's blog is a very good example. If you visit them, you take the risk to win one week on a private island !
We end up this post with a sentence found in a study about corporate blogging published by Edelman ( available here ) :
If you know some blogs or podcasts about travel, do not hesitate to leave a comment !
More info :
*advantages of internal podcasting
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10/10/2005
boardinGlobe is live !
We are pleased to launch boardinGlobe, the first weblogs platform dedicated to travel professionals, in partnership with blogSpirit.
Blogs are very powerful tools for professional of the area. It’s large characteristics, among which the simplicity and the instantaneity of its publication are main values to communicate, especially in these industry of services.
boardinGlobe.com enables hotels, tour operators, tourism offices, car renter… to create and manage their own media. It will offer them the opportunity to communicate, exchange and enhance or build customer loyalty. You are looking for a simple, strong and professional tool ? You just find it !
We are happy to welcome our first client, Anjajavy a relais et château hôtel and the blog of a tourism industry consultant, the "STARTING BLOG" run by Michel Goestchmann ( the man perfectly adapted himself to the blog...direct and frankly speech !).
It’s a first step of the boardinGate concept, the next will come very soon…
Thanks to the blogSpirit Team for its professionalism and reactivity !
P.S / One day, Loïc might tell us how he built the first weblog for an hotel !
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10/03/2005
Travel & blogs
Pierre et Vacances has just launched a blog dedicated to the Snow world which underline and give information on the main events of the area. RSS feeds are available :
-Events
-Material
-Ski
-Snow
-Stations
Another very interesting use of the blog by the Forest Hill hotels which present here their activity within the region of Paris. A secong blog allows them to manage independantly their recruitment announcement.
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08/31/2005
Blog Day !
boardinGate also participate to the Blog Day with 5 professional travel blogs :
2 / The Club de l’Arche Méditerranée's blog with a very interesting e-tourism section ( you can learn that English people are very involved in blogging about Provence !)
3/ A Geek Sabre's Blog : just to say Hello ! :),
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