Blog Profile / T4 Travel & Tourism Technology Trends
| URL : | http://tourismtechnology.rezgo.com/contact | |
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| Filed Under: | Industries / Tourism | |
| Posts on Regator: | 208 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.9 | |
| Archived Since: | November 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
If I was going to start a travel and tourism business…
These are the first things I would do. I would start researching and educating myself as much as I could about the type of travel business I had interest in starting. I’d spend 1 month reading and learning, gathering informational resources, connecting with people and companies that could help me. Show More Summary
Promoting Your Tour / Activity Business Using LinkedIn’s Company Pages
On September 6th, 2012, LinkedIn announced huge changes to Company Page design and user experience, which completely changes the way we view the platform as a marketing tool. “For companies, this means a more powerful way to build relationships with your target audience on LinkedIn,” said Mike Grishaver from LinkedIn’s Product Management team. Show More Summary
Sell and distribute your tour and activity inventory through the Owned Inventory Merchant Model.
The Owned Inventory Merchant Model is an inventory acquisition model and a contracting strategy used by travel wholesalers to acquire hotel room inventory. In a nutshell the wholesaler pre-pays or guarantees cash upfront for inventory, better pricing and more favorable terms and conditions. Show More Summary
Who should hold the bag in terms of API integration?
In my most recent Tnooz post titled “Putting the supplier cart before the distributor horse in travel” I discussed how creating open inbound APIs could help to foster connectivity between supply and distribution and encourage those who...Show More Summary
A mobile booking platform is the next big opportunity in the $27B Tour & Activity Market.
In a recent article I wrote at Tnooz, I discuss a big entrepreneurial opportunity I see in the tour and activity market by selling 1-day activities to in-destination travelers via a mobile only booking app. This would be a pure transactional...Show More Summary
Distribution Strategies and the ATDW
In my latest Tnooz post titled “Australian distribution strategy could be template for other tourism boards” I talk about the opportunity that national tourism boards have to engage with small businesses in their countries. Although...Show More Summary
What happened to the good old fashioned hello?
In this day and age, when customer service seems to be outsourced to the farthest reaches of the plant, is it not surprising that people expect that your “customer support team “will be nothing more than a veiled attempt to placate their need to speak to a live person. Show More Summary
Credit Card Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility
Last week I wrote a post on Tnooz about PCI compliance and credit card safety. The reason for this post was to draw some much needed attention to the importance of server security. The bottom line is that everyone from the small operator...Show More Summary
Payments in Travel and Tourism are a Real Challenge
One the biggest challenges I see working with tour and activity operators everyday is the challenge of payments. In order to move this cash laden, on site dependent business sector into one where advanced bookings and electronic distribution...Show More Summary
How do you start a travel business that becomes a $500M company?
As the founder of the Travel Business Academy, a professional program that teaches entrepreneurs globally how to start a travel business, I am always searching for stories about successful travel entrepreneurs that I can share with our members. Travelzoo is in the news lately, with rumors surrounding an impending sale of the company, so I [...]
101 Marketing Tips for Tourism a Must Read for Tour & Activity Operators
I recently received a copy of an e-book from Doug Motel called “101 Marketing Tips for Tourism”. As someone who is always trying to find ways to help tour and activity operators make their businesses better, I was intrigued to see whether Doug’s recommendations fall in line with the recommendations I have made in the [...]
TripButler is Hoping to Cut Your Roaming Data Bill
Have you travelled overseas lately and been paranoid about turning on roaming data on your mobile device for fear of coming home to a ridiculous bill? Well TripButler, a start-up out of Austria is hoping that their portable wifi devices will give technology addicted travelers a reprieve for high roaming charges. The TripButler wifi device [...]
Does your lofty sales goal ultimately hurt your chance of success at the launch of your tour and activity start up?
This is article #4 in a 5 part Start up series for tour and activity travel businesses. In working with travel start ups a consistent theme I come across is the lofty sales expectations the founders place on themselves and their start up at launch. I believe this to be a huge mistake that reduces [...]
Jump start your new tour and activity business through distribution.
In the first two articles I wrote about how to partner and package to help your start up get business in the early stages. This third article is about implementing a simple distribution system so at launch you have other marketers and or marketplaces selling your tour and activity products. There are many new tour [...]
Partner with travel suppliers in your destination to create a unique one-of-kind package for your tour and activity business.
5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business. This is a series of 5 articles to help tours and activity entrepreneurs start a new business. I’ll post one new article each week here at T4. Tip #2: Partner with other travel suppliers in your destination to create a unique one-of-kind package for [...]
5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business.
This is a series of 5 articles to help tours and activity entrepreneurs start a new business. I’ll post one new article each week here at T4. Tip #1: Introduce yourself and your company’s services to the established travel business owners and tour/activity operators in the destination you plan on starting your business. A simple [...]
Open Travel Tour/Activity Schema – What it means for small business
For most small tour operators, the concept of creating a standardized set of XML messages for the distribution of tour and activity data probably sounds like gobbledegook. For data geeks and standards enthusiasts like the team behind Rezgo, this is a huge milestone in the march towards making small businesses a more visible part of [...]
The Micro-Tripper—short-term, purely spontaneous travel enabled by the flash-sale, group buying, and private-travel sale start-ups, the new leisure travel market segment on the rise.
In October at T4, I published, “Is the new, private-sale travel site business model the real deal? an in-depth look, into the new social e-commerce start-ups, their business model and how the deals get structured. As an active online travel business consultant in the new social e-commerce travel space (flash-travel sales), I am confirming, that [...]
Do your homework before doing a Daily Deal
As a tour and activity business, you are a perfect target customer for the likes of Groupon, Living Social, or any one of hundreds of other daily deal websites popping up on the Internet everyday. But be warned, the daily deals business can be a real nightmare for your company if you are not careful. [...]
Calling All Developers, Travel APIs are Waiting for You
Tnooz and the Open Travel Alliance are putting on THack Vegas, a gathering of developers and travel technology companies who want to collaborate and build some cool stuff to show off at the Open Travel Advisory Forum in late April. The concept behind THack is that developers will get access to some cool open and [...]