It has been quite a year for Instagram. After watching its community grow from one million users to over fifteen million users, it was honored as a 2011 iPhone App of the Year. Yesterday, Instagram revealed the 15 most popular places where Instagram photos were taken in 2011. Number one on the list may come[…]
If you are a travel brand seeking a platform for spreading awareness and cultivating relationships, here is a space for you to play in 2012. Earlier today I saw a Tweet that included a link to an article entitled “23 Brands Using Instagram And What They’re Doing Right” along with a reference to the lack[…]
A few days ago Patrick Kiger from National Geographic contacted me to discuss how I thought travelers could benefit from using their mobile devices while traveling. His piece, 4 Ways Your Phone Could Change How You Travel in 2012, includes thoughts from myself and others on new apps that untie foreign tongues, decode airports, evade[…]
This past Monday, Expedia hosted Blogger Day 2011 in Seattle which was designed to bring a group of travel bloggers together with a group of key executives from Expedia in order to delve into a range of topics and discuss how some of Expedia’s recent initiatives could be beneficial in tackling some of the bloggers’[…]
In 2011 the Jordan Tourism Board has gone “all in” with their effort to work with travel bloggers and they are not about to end this alliance. Yesterday, the Jordan Tourist Board continued its foray into digital media by announcing a unique marketing collaboration with a group of eight travel bloggers. The concept, called iAmbassador,[…]
Today, some of North America’s top travel bloggers, including #ExpediaT5 contest winners Sherry Ott and Nancy D. Brown, are in Seattle for Expedia Blogger Day 2011. The day will start with an informal welcome lunch hosted by Joe Megibow, general manager and vice president of Expedia.com. At Barrio, one of Seattle’s best Mexican restaurants, bloggers[…]
The day after Gowalla announced it is to become a part of Facebook, Lonely Planet has launched the unique Wenzani mobile travel guide. As I mentioned earlier today, social travel is a space waiting for a break out star and Wenzani is the latest to use socially generated recommendations to create a personalized travel guide.[…]
One thing that you can be certain of when predicting digital travel media trends for 2012 is that the tools we use will continue to get smarter. It should come as no surprise that mobile technology will carry on as the fundamental driver of the digital travel world in 2012. As a general trend, technology[…]
Throughout the past year, I have heard vigorous discussions revolving around the recurring topic of bloggers signing with agents. This past weekend was no different. A post on the Global Bloggers Network Facebook group tallied over 110 comments, proving that the topic of blogger agents is still hot. While attending various community events over the[…]
Dutch visual storyteller Caspar Diederik has coined a new term: storytraveling. Storytraveling is the art of telling travel stories in a short, visual and catchy way. His latest digital storytelling project, Digital Diary, includes the works of seven different artists who each produced visual stories of their own impressions of Italy’s off-the-beaten-path, southern province of[…]