by Bruce Turkel | Dec 25, 2017 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
A dancing bear is a wild bear captured when the animal was young or a bear born in captivity and used to entertain people in the streets for money. Dancing bears were commonplace throughout Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and could...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 25, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Travel Technology. Greetings from Faro in the heart of the Portuguese Algarve. We just spent a week in Lisbon and Porto. Now we’re touring the southwest corner of the country before we drive across the border Portugal shares with Spain. We’ll be heading on to Seville...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 22, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
My friend and client, Juan, went on a holiday a couple of months ago. Juan’s from a small town in the Pyrenees, just outside of Barcelona, and he was going back home with his wife and kids for a two-week vacation. Unfortunately, it turned out to only be a one-week...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
During the negotiations on the terms of Spain’s bailout, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sent a text to his finance minister. Encouraging the minister to be a tough negotiator, Rajoy wrote: “We’re the number four power in Europe. Spain is not Uganda.” Of course,...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
I spend a lot of time working in the tourism industry so I think about it a lot. But for the past couple weeks my wife and I have been traveling throughout northern Spain and I’ve been living tourism as well. Because travel is such a normal part of our everyday lives,...
