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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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The US isn't the first, Australia have charged for a visitor visa for years.
Cliff
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Cliff
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Best Regards
Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com
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Why are we still relevant, in other words? Not in some undefined future, once all the dust settles, but right here and now? They don't give a flying dingdong about our trials and tribulations -- they just want to know what's in it for them.
Fact is, the public does get plenty of bang for their buck by swarming the likes of Tripadvisor, despite its well-demonstrated flaws. In part this is because all too many members of the public have grown to distrust elites and experts, and like the idea of taking advice from the average gal or the dude next door. Remember, not long ago we disdained the eggheaded candidate to elect the president we wanted to have a beer with.
There are, I feel, 3 points worth emphasizing. Maybe some of this is obvious stuff, but presenting it all together like this may have some value.
1. Blogs are becoming paramount -- but not just any old blogs
The travel blogosphere, as crowded as it's been getting, is still in its teething stage and very much in flux. But because all of us are living and learning increasingly on the Internet these days, this is where attention must most be paid, and with proper care and feeding it can grow in importance against user-generated sites. The casual amateurs will be weeded out and the dedicated talents will rise to the top -- in a sense they'll still be an "elite" but one that's greatly democratized and optimized for the 21st century. As Lana pointed out, those who offer specialized knowledge will be especially in demand. Many in the travel industry have recognized this is a wave they can't afford to miss and have been engaging with bloggers, but my sense is that most are still clueless and need to be educated.
2. Print media still has and will continue to have its place
Having said all that, old media may be diminished but it's not dead, and some remnant is likely to retain some amount of influence among a more limited but still commercially desirable elite readership. They will become the coffee table books, as it were, of travel journalism. Yet even most of these outlets will not survive without extending their brand and presence online, and here their strong SEO will guarantee higher visibility for travel writers producing for them. And a significant portion of consumers of travel journalism still do respect its expertise and experience, and the travel industry will underestimate this at its own peril.
3. A new paradigm: travel-journalist expertise meets social media democracy
There's also a new model developing that combines the best of both worlds -- traditional travel journalism's expertise and social media's ethos of democratic access. And here's where I get to immodestly plug Tripatini, which for that reason we view as the next stage in the development of travel social sites. We bring media of varying degrees of professionalism together to learn from each other, the public, and the travel industry, and conversely to give the public and the travel industry access to travel writers and broadcasters. Though admittedly in its early stages, Tripatini is an experiment that can only help strengthen the relevance of travel journalists in the second decade of the 21st century and beyond.
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