This week I have been invited by Darren Cronian of the TravelRants blog to pick my favourite posts in the Travel Blog Carnival. A virtual fiesta of travel themed blog content if you like!
I really enjoyed reading all the posts that were submitted and I’m pleased to be able to share my top-picks here - I hope you find them as interesting as I did.
Always the last to know…
This is a great post from the Get A Room Blog (or should that be a great plea?) for hotel guests to talk the hotel itself when there is a problem, before talking to the whole world.
As Don writes: “Just give them a chance. The last thing they want is for you to be unhappy… After all, the hotel’s goal is to welcome you back again.”
While I’d disagree with Don that it’s not the raves that make it on to online consumer sites like TripAdvisor (see this recent Tracking Tourism post) – I do otherwise completely agree with Don’s thinking in his post. As Rene Looper, a former hotelier, recently said in a comment here: “If you had a great time, tell TripAdvisor – but if you had a problem, tell us”.
Shock horror, a consumer-to-consumer site makes it to the pages of this decidedly b2b blog!
Aside from the fact that I like this post and Barbara’s Hole in the Donut blog generally, I’ve chosen this as I think it embodies consumer thinking in these hardening economic times.
Read how a devoted traveller, who has literally travelled the world, discovers for the first time the attractions that are right on her doorstep.
And as we’ve highlighted in this blog previously, all the statistical evidence coming in from the US suggests that in these times of potential recession, it is not just Barbara who will be looking at the tourism opportunities in her own back yard this year!
Social media sites, hype and non-takeover stories. Surely not?
Kevin May, editor of the Travolution blog, ponders just why it is that WAYN (The Where Are You Now community that claims to be the fastest growing travel and lifestyle social networking community website in the UK) seems to attract a disproportionate amount of attention in the travel industry for a site of its size.
Read Kevin’s post to see if some of that hype is justified.
Space Tourism in Cape Breton?
Finally, for those of us in Scotland who’re hoping that space tourism will have its birth here, Kim Kinrade reports in the White Point Manor blog that the Canadian government is still looking into the funding $45 million as its share for a rocket launching facility in Cape Breton, which would see the birth of “Space Tourism” in the province of Nova Scotia.
Mmm – does this mean Scotians old and new will be duelling in their spacesuits at dawn?
Previous picks from the Travel Blog Carnival
If you’re interested in reading more from the Travel Blog Carnival, see Darren’s carnival pages over at TravelRants.com. You can also find out how to submit your own posts for review.
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Good point Kim! I hope Virgin are planning to take that into account