by Bruce Turkel | Jun 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Alabama Post Register followed my blog posts on the oil disaster and Gulf Coast tourism. For original article, click here. Since the tragic BP oil spill began, I’ve been inundated with requests from experts and regular folks alike who want to know how much money...
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 | Mar 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Stanley Turkel, MHS, ISHC.As a hotel industry historian, I was happy to come across a Wall Street Journal front page article dated December 12, 1972. ‘Economy Motels Lure Travelers With Prices as Low as $6 a Room.’What caught my attention was the opening...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By guest blogger Vanessa Horwell With the endless discourse of cutbacks, staff layoffs and general economic woes, it’s very hard for us marketers not to hop aboard the fear-monger’s bandwagon. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen the Christian Science Monitor...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
While Hurricane Fay was threatening our houses in the Keys and Miami, I packed my bags for a trip to VisitFlorida’s Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando. My wife pointed out that I’d also been out of town for the...
