I’m in Las Vegas enjoying meeting up with some other travel bloggers and learning about the state of the luxury travel market in today’s economy. It’s more robust than I thought!
Yesterday there was a good session on viral marketing in the travel industry – although these people need to be a little less hostile toward online sites and writers. Yes, having a travel agent is a personal relationship – but with busy lives we need to use tools that make our information gathering and decision making faster and easier.
And yes, there is a lot of bad info floating around out there on the internet and you should follow your brand. BUT – there’s also a lot of good stuff out there, and nothing says viral like a hot story floating around the blogoshpere. Ignore us at your peril.
The second session that I sat in on was about Hawaii. The islands are attracting lots of new tourism projects and it looks like visitors are still headed that way.
I’m twittering nuggets of information throughout the sessions and events, and you can follow me on twitter at: flyawaycafe. And thanks to all my new followers – I’ll be catching up with you as time permits.
You can follow all the expo twitters by looking for #LTE.
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