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
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 | Mar 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
After 350 years of accepting that an apple will inevitably fall because of gravity, Steve Jobs has created his own theory. ABC News reports that Apple has now broken into the travel industry by negotiating deals with several airlines to make their planes “iPod...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 6, 2007 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
By now you’ve no doubt read about Howard Schultz’s memo to Starbucks’ management bemoaning the loss of the “Starbucks’ experience.” It’s been in Forbes, BusinessWeek, on CNN and all over the blogesphere. It seems as if...
