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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I know that travel consumers booking via my hotel website i.e. direct customers are more loyal, bring more revenue and tend to travel more often. In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% a year ago to 30% of CRS bookings in Q3 2009 (eTRAK).

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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. Tourism/Travel/Hospitality. Goals: Connect with new clients who enjoy traveling. The Travel and Hospitality Industry usually does pretty well with attracting Facebook fans.

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Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals

Buzz Marketing for Technology

2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0 College 2.0 : Online Learning and Web 2.0 College 2.0: (Facebook group, Eduardo Peirano ). 2.0 : Instructional Designers, developers, instructors and. application of Web 2.0 learn with me about how to use Web 2.0 virtual travels.

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Entrepreneurship Knows No Age Boundaries

The Marketing Blog

Since we were too tired and had an early morning flight to Delhi, we were really not in a mood to travel the distance in Bangalore. Filed under: Entrepreneur , Entrepreneurship , Web 2.0 Exhausted with the day’s work routine, we wanted to sign off the night on a good note by having a nice & quite dinner.

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Search Engine Statistics:: Google's share dips

The Marketing Blog

Sector wise trends : If we look at vertical searches, all is not lost for Google as they continue to rise in Automotive, Shopping and travel verticals. Google’s percentage of upstream traffic grew for the Automotive, Shopping and Travel categories. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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Next Generation Companies

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Collaboration is nothing more than a group of people working toward a common goal – that's what Web 2.0 John can talk to twice as many customers and travel 50% less by using his own technology. There will be no separate networks for voice data etc – the network will become the platform. is all about.

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Customer Service: The Cultural & Geographical Differences b/w India & Western World

The Marketing Blog

Finally, we received a reply from their India director that he was in-charge of key issues and was himself traveling out of India. Filed under: Customer , customer service , Web 2.0 Alas we had to threaten them of dire consequences and send numerous emails. What is your experience like!

Web 2.0 174