by Bruce Turkel | Apr 21, 2007 | Branding
“The Travel Industry Association is aiming for February 2008 as the launch date for DiscoverAmerica.com — the country’s official travel and tourism Web site. Initially the URL will target the five biggest sources of international visitors — United Kingdom, Japan,...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
As the marketing of travel and tourism continues to change, two travel sites are taking a cue from YouTube and distributing consumer-created video content on their sites. Travelistic.com and LonelyPlanet.tv are both offering users and tourism bureaus the opportunity...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
There’s no doubt that brands are badges, telling everyone who we are and how we want to present ourselves to the world. But how far does this go? A recent article in the New York Times suggests that brand-badge symbolism has become so powerful that certain cars...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
You can credit the Internet for another major change in travel marketing. Thanks to sites such as TripAdvisor, happy and unhappy guests can immediately post their opinions for all the world to see. As Michele Higgins writes in The New York Times, “The Web Gives Hotel...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
VIA my brilliant friend Bob Wright in Orlando: “I feel lucky to be watching a marketing lesson on at least two of the four P’s of marketing — pricing and promotion, especially the use of price as strategy — provided by Disney. No picking sides...
