Originally slated for release in September, American Express delayed the release of its annual Global Business Travel Forecast and Trends report in order to evaluate the impact of market activities that have occurred over the last 30 days.
American Express Business Travel last week published its annual Global Business Travel Forecast and Trends report. Originally slated [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 26, 2008
American Express Releases Annual Global Business Forecast
October 21, 2008
Five Factors that will Positively Affect Travel to and within the U.S. for 2009
With all the dismal news lately we must remember that there are counterbalancing influences that may actually increase tourism to many U.S. destinations.
The continued weakness of the U.S. dollar. Financial experts expect the dollar to remain weak due the continued reduction in interest rates by the Federal Reserve and our growing debt.
Fuel costs are coming [...]
October 14, 2008
E-Tourism Summit Reviewed on Travel 2.0 Blog
Read the review of E-Tourism Summit on the Travel 2.0 blog…released today.
As most of you know, I had the pleasure of speaking at and attending the e-Tourism Summit last week in San Francisco. So, for the readers of Travel 2.0 who could not be there or did not follow us on Twitter, we felt a [...]
October 13, 2008
Google holds Ad Travel Think Tank in NYC.
Google Travel Holds Travel Advertising Think Tank in NYC last week.
Last Wednesday in New York, Google convened more than a hundred travel marketing executives at TravelThink 2008 to offer strategies for boosting business during the what is shaping up to be a travel crisis.
In survey findings presented by JupiterResearch, 94% of travel executives said online [...]
October 9, 2008
E-Tourism Summit Google Field Trip Photos
Last Friday a contingent of 25 E Tourism Summit attendees were hosted to a tour of Google headquarters and lunch at one of the 19 world class restaurants on the company’s Mountain View campus by Dan Greene and Paul Coutts, two of our E-T presenters from the Google Adwords Travel vertical team.
Whether it was having [...]
October 7, 2008
Email Marketing Club for E-Tourism Summit Attendees
I received this from Tressia Gerhke, online marketing manager of Travel Portland, and a fellow ETS attendee and wanted to share it.
Recently, I joined a group called www.emailmarketersclub.com. This is a group of over 1500 email marketing professionals worldwide where people can go for resources, networking, whitepaper resources and more.It’s free to join and I’ve [...]
October 6, 2008
Comments (Pros and Cons) about the E-Tourism Summit
Here are some preliminary comments we received from E-Tourism Summit attendees the day following the event.
You may also find comments from attendees that may have been slightly inebriated at the reception on our E-Tourism Summit YouTube channel.
As the organizer, I would rate the event a 6.5 to 7.0 on a scale of 10. Several of [...]
