For a long time now we’ve been preaching how fun and engaging Twitter is…and yet questioned how effective it is when applied to the travel market.



Then along comes a report in HotelMarketing by way of an interesting …

 

Go ahead, type in “Perfect Family” in Google images. What do you see? Probably no one you recognize as a “typical” family. Pretty shocking.





New Media Travel once asked “Why Is Hotel Content So Boring?”



The point was that hotels,…

The road warrior, the business traveler, represents a huge 50% or more of a hotel’s revenue, but what we found very interesting is a trend to combine a family vacation with a business trip.



An impressive 67.7 percent of those randomly polled said they combine business travel with family travel, a major shift from just ten years ago when…

by Wendie Hansen with Kaleel Sakakeeny



Ralph Waldo Emerson had this to say about the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA, a suburb of Boston:



“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,

Here once the embattled farmers stood

And fired the shot heard round the world.”



But what does the bridge in Concord,  the home of the…

I noticed that most every time I  stray outside the narrow range of “Travel on Twitter” topics, I’m unfollowed.

When I question someone’s viewpoint, for example, or offer an alternative way of looking at a travel topic, I get into Twitter trouble.



Recently I raised a question about a…