by Bruce Turkel | Jun 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Since the tragic oil spill began I’ve been inundated by reporters wanting to know how much money various gulf coast communities will have to spend to repair their tourism industries. Paradoxically, I believe the question is not how much should be spent but what...
by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
In today’s New York Times there’s a Shell ad titled “LET’S DELIVER ENERGY FOR A CHANGING WORLD. LET’S GO.” I’m sorry, but is someone at Shell smoking crack? Here the whole world, or at least the whole Western Hemisphere, is fixated on...
by Bruce Turkel | May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
I just read an article that outlined Florida congressman Meek’s plan to raise marketing dollars to promote tourism to Florida in the wake of the tragic BP oil spill: “U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, a candidate in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, said...
by Bruce Turkel | May 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
While BP continues its efforts to try to stop the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, promoting the Gulf beaches during the spill is a crisis on land for the Gulf Coast tourism industry. I recently spoke to National Public Radio (NPR) on how the Gulf region...