Many travel agencies work in an online landscape regarding booking and payment transfer, and criminals use various techniques to inflict data breaches and transactional losses. The travel industry often falls victim to criminal attacks who use f
Over a billion people’s data was compromised in 2018. Additionally, unpredictable number was stolen from individuals using unsecured Wi-Fi networks or various scams, phishing, and social engineering techniques. Daniel Markuson, Digital Privacy Expert
A fair number of factors need to be taken into account when planning a vacation, from picking a destination to deciding upon your dates, putting together an itinerary, and booking transportation. And of course you also need to figure out where t
Getting the best airline tickets prices is one of the main compoents of the travel agents and one of the most important and basic factors for the success of tourism companies, whether it involves religious prilgrimages such as Hajj and Umrah or le
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You’re enjoying an adventure for the senses as you journey through the soaring Alps Mountains in Switzerland. You immediately understand why the magnificent view that surrounds you in Colorado inspired the words of “America the Beautiful.” Yo
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Every September 27, travelers celebrate International World Tourism Day. The tourism landscape has changed immensely since the first such celebration in 1980, with the Internet becoming inevitable for travelers and travel agents. According to t
How do you get more online bookings and scale up your hotel revenue?
As simple as the question may sound, as you probably well realize, the answers can be tricky and challenging. And these days, that's where digital marketing comes in. With the bo
Increasing your occupancy rate should not be an expensive task. Most companies try to use SEO freelance consultants in an attempt to build up their search visibility, and while this works to some extent, in today's competitive digital marketing sect
I've been getting results through direct-response marketing campaigns for over 10 years. Online advertising offers a proactive, direct, and powerful way to find out what generates qualified prospects the best—and then turn up the volume to multiply
Read more…The number of OTA's (online travel agencies) throughout the world is getting increased constantly. With many travelers preferring to manage the task of travel bookings online on their own without traditional travel agencies, the initial model of the
Local travel needs more entrepreneurs to operate and promote healthy local enterprises, whether they be small B&B’s or Grand Lodges, small day tour operators or extended tour businesses or....... promoters.
Here is an opportunity to get involved as a
Seeking the perfect travel website is a bit like seeking the Holy Grail. A long, usually fruitless endeavor.
But if the perfect travel website is ever built, we're pretty sure "they will come."
And maybe the website that Fi designed is it.
For now, at b
"Big Data" derived from social media has almost become a buzz word in decision-making, product-innovation circles. And it may be able to put the "fun" back into travel, according to Roy Rodenstein, CEO ofTrueLens. As he sees it, big data derived fr
If it's true that 1-minute of video is worth 1.8 million words, then hotels and travel destinations may have found the "holy grail" that converts the grazing online process of looking at hotels, to actually booking them.
And there isn't a hotel or des
Legal issues have recently plagued Air BnB in a growing number of cities. It's great to share your home with others but your lease or homeowners' association may forbid you from doing it on a routine basis. Restrictive City ordinances are next. Eas
Read more…Be your worst day in 2010.... And, if you or your favourite cause want to learn about a new way to help with local to global fundraising for Charities, Causes and Projects for 2010 and beyond.... A fundraising program where the donors can get back
Read more…If Huff Post Travel can declare that the "Old Travel Show is Dead, Long Live the New York Travel Festival," then we might be right in declaring that "Travel Destination Articles Are Dying, Long Live Social Media Travel Content." So when a senior ed
Your thoughts on the coolest and most money-saving sites on the net -- and please let us know what we've left out here (for more, see our Airlines, Car Rentals, and Hotels/Motels groups): general: www.BookingBuddy.com, www.Expedia.com, www.GetARoom.
Read more…The head of a British University division specializing in tourism's online and social media evolution has recently asserted what we already intuit: that in leveraging the ever-evolving capabilities of technology and especially the Internet to create
According to Skift's 13 Global Trends that will define Travel in 2013 report/whitepaper, mobile technology, maps and last minute bookings will be the next battle ground in travel. It seems in all these trends, something is missing. Comfort and conve
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