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AlexBrylov Starting a travel blog this year can be an exciting and rewarding journey, allowing you to share your adventures, inspire others, and even generate income. With evolving digital trends and increasing opportunities in the travel niche, this is the perfect time to launch your blog. Here’s a step-by-step guide, along with content ideas and suggestions to help you succeed. read post
Read more…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…
Read more…My editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica has asked me to extend this offer to all my journalist colleagues. You are invited to enjoy free access to all its factchecked resources, and if you do link to a Britannica story in your articles, none of the content linked to will be paywalled. Your readers in turn will have full and free access to Britannica's content. To get your free, personal subscription, just go to britannica.com/journalists and enter the code: EXPERT-CONTENT.
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NEW HOUSE-SITTING SOCIAL NETWORK
Making travel more affordable
I'd like to alert you all to you to a recent newcomer to the web HouseSitMatch which provides an online environment for house-sitters and homeowners to meet and exchange information. House-sitters can find free accommodation for their travels and homeowners can leave their home, pets and garden in capable hands while they travel. Reciprocal house-sits can be organised which is effectively house-swapping.
The site currently specialises in the UK and Australia and is brand new so we are in the throes of building sitter and property databases. In view of that Value Match is currently FREE so we encourage people to get in on the ground level of this new house-sitting social network!
Reading the site's blog is a great way to be introduced to the concept.
Anyone interested in historic or heritage travel? The courthouse in New Braunfels, TX has been recently restored. Texas’ courthouses offer some of the most remarkable examples of public architecture in the state– and the nation. Some 139 Texas courthouses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
There will be a launch event on Jan 22 to give journalists and bloggers a "Behind the scenes" look at the new courthouse in New Braunfels. Email me if interested in attending: adrianag7@gmail.com
Wellness Tourism Worldwide Announces
Top 10 Wellness Travel Trends for 2013
1st annual forecast to be released January 11
Wellness Tourism Worldwide announces its 2013 forecast of wellness travel trends. Each trend bears relevance to today’s consumer, focusing upon new wellness designs, programs and service levels in air transit, hotel accommodations and destinations.
Camille Hoheb, wellness travel industry expert and founder of Wellness Tourism Worldwide, noted "Health opens the door to a whole new world. We’re looking at wellness domains that contribute to better traveler experiences. We think this forecast will encourage individuals and industries to expand their perceptions on wellness and improve quality of life.”
The forecast is based on an analysis of factors including consumer and B2B surveys, site visits, feedback from travel suppliers, destinations and sellers as well as extensive research, all of which have been consolidated to bring practical knowledge to both individuals and businesses.
Snapshot: Top 10 Wellness Travel Trends for 2013
(full descriptions included in press release)
Wellness Takes Flight
Health-Focused Hotels
Digital Detox
Reconnecting through Nature
Sleep at the Forefront
Spiritual Seekers
Indigenous Healing Experiences
Rewarding with Wellness Travel
Celebrity Instructor Retreats
Intergenerational Family Holiday
For a free download of the “Top 10 Wellness Travel Trends for 2013”, please go to www.wellnesstourismworldwide.com
Media Contact:
Camille Hoheb
camille@wellnesstourismworldwide.com
Looking to connect with luxury boutique hotels in Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia & Laos. My wife & I are travelling the world on a 500-day honeymoon, reviewing properties for exclusive placement on Honeymoons.com (one resort per region).
If you work in PR or Marketing and have boutique hotel clients in any of the aforementioned regions we would love to continue this conversation over email or on a call.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Mike & Anne
Seeking hotel PR reps in Israel.
Guidebook author traveling to Israel next week would like to hear from reps of hotels interested in coverage.
Thanks,
Buzzy
Geri...that is all a part of the 'partnering'.... a planned and targeted approach to reap rewards after 3 adverts or ???? and evaluate the ROI accordingly and adjust the commission element for a longer term campaign.....the risk is then 'shared' whereas with 'just buying ads' the risk is only on one party...the ad buyer....believe me I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt....and some of the publications that I paid for adverttising....also no longer exist
Allan... the publisher has an opportunity to review (audit) any product but I will bet you a fine pint that they will often publish products that do not meet with certain standards...just for the dosh.
Buzzy...The SEO firm as with advertisers can get the 'lookyloos' to visit but the advertiser wants qualified buyers and requires a targeted market of such from the SEO...not just any large database....what a great idea tho' for a bonus on sales....any takers ourt there?
Partnering between the advertising media and the advertiser with properly reviewed and substantiated product and target market would surely be more profitable for both partners...give it a go or maybe keep going out of print...
I sympathize with Tony, but Geri is certainly on target. Still, there is a middle ground: The SEO firm has done its job if it succeeds in generating click-throughs and visits, so it deserves some compensation for those results, then perhaps a bonus for actual sales.
Ed, back to the post-mortem on CT+L - I think another contributing factor to its demise may have been the way special interest and niche travel interests and markets have developed since the recession. Now take a region such as the Caribbea -- which CT+L was able to cover well for years before the advent even of the net -- and how that region itself has seen a drop in the so-called mass consumer middle class traveler as a marketing identity while at the same time those special interest travel categories have grown, and you have kind of a perfect storm for a magazine concept like CT+L. to navigate. Now sure, they could respond by having a very editorially diverse calendar - "the diving issue", "the food & beverage issue", "the shopping issue", "the adventure & trekking issue", and try to cover every base that way. But meanwhile, other newer publishers have seen the opportunity in taking a dedicated focus - thus, wedding & honeymoon, or music & culture, or any of the aforementioned as their sole and primary content base year round. Along with that, I think many travelers already had traveled to the region, and were part of the consumer base that was either staying at home or only going again because the destination and objective was tied to one of those special interests - and they found alternative media to get them re-engaged and up-to-speed better than a CT+L could manage.
Er, Ed, Tony - the reasoning doesn't make sense. It may be best from Tony's perspective, but not from a publisher's.
Here's why. As a publisher how do I know the advertiser isn't flogging bad product? It could be out of season, out of fashion, past it's best before date, not competitive with others, have been negatively reviewed/received, etc. You may have bad customer relations and poor sales and service follow through.
The advertiser could also be on a tricky financial footing. As a publisher how do we know that you have the means to pay for these clicks/sales commissions? How do we know you will pay in a timely manner? How does the publisher know the actual sales? Clients don't want to open their books to a third party. It's also a cost to monitor and a delay in cash flow.
These are all reasons why a publisher isn't going to adopt this model.
What is it that the publisher provides? The publisher's job is to deliver a readership. The publisher, via their expertise in producing an editorial product - whether a broad-based news source or targeted consumer segment - which is an attractive way to marry like-minded consumers to like-minded companies.
The reason many titles have gone out of business is because they were run by non-print people, and were usually loaded up with junk debt just before the economy crashed. In Canada, newspaper and magazine circulation dipped, on average, between 1-3%, which is little more than a few households belt-tightening. Some specialist titles took a deeper hit, but I'm seeing recovery.
Interesting, book sales have risen steadily the last three years. Then look at The Economist. Readership is waaaaay up. Revenue is up around 30% and profit up almost that again. That's from print.
I'm not saying print doesn't have to change, but we've been hearing about its death for several hundred years. The end-of-print talk revived when radio was invented, and the telegraph, and film and television...
Last summer I spent a week on the Gold Floor of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. I didn't see a person there or in our private breakfast and cocktail room who looked like they followed anyone on Twitter. As I roamed the resort, whether in the spa, the bars, the golf course, there just wasn't a twittering crowd. It boils down to who your customer is and what your product/service is. And then there are some external factors, like the crap US economy, thrown in for the short term.
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