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In a recent post, Why Hotel Content is So Boring we argued, and so did the webinar panel at VFM Leonardo, that hotel content is boring in part because their images are vacuous, and un-engaging.
They have nothing to do with the actual emotional experience of staying at a specific hotel or destination.
Think photos of empty dining rooms and pools.
Think empty guest rooms or an unrealistically gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed family of four playing in the impossibly bl
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 American revolution for independence, have to do with revolutions in Tahrir Square, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and all places where the struggle for fre
There was an interesting round table discussion recently sponsored by visual content management powerhouse, VFM Leonardo .
The basic question the panel was asked to consider was this: Why is hotel web site content so boring, and how can it be made more engaging for the traveler?
It so happens, that the initial stage in travel decisions is the all-important “Planning Stage,” the tipping point, so to speak.
So if content is almost exclusively transactional and
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It’ a great video. It’s fun, alive, upbeat and touches a travel nerve: It’s Carnival Cruise Line’s new advertising campaign, “Hey America, Didja Ever.”
But the video is not on the cruise line’s web site, confirming, once again, that searches for authentic travel experiences are not found on search engines or on web sites, but on social media networks.
It’s here where people can question, connect and participate with real people in
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You could almost miss the Union St. Inn blending as it does with the many shingled houses that line the streets of old Nantucket village.
But that would be your loss.
It’s one one of the most celebrated inns on Nantucket with praises from major travel press.
But, its very modesty, its lack of puffed up pretensions that make it special. It doesn’t feel like a much like a "praised place."
Behind the brass knocker the 1770 B&B manages
