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Interviews from PhoCusWright
Dec 11th
Last month PhoCusWright (PCW) hosted their annual conference in Florida. These conferences bring the biggest names in the travel technology industry together in one place to talk shop, talk trends, and make great contacts within the industry. This year PCW held the first Travel Industry Bloggers Summit at their conference. This included a blogging workshop, several bloggers meet ups, a release of our book, The Tips From the T-List, and extensive press coverage for a select group of travel industry bloggers.
Rezgo.com had the privilege of attending this conference as hosts of the workshop and the blogger meet up, and as blogging press. We were able to gain great content from the conference and here are some video Interviews that we conducted at the workshop:
Tom Botts from Hudson Crossing, LLC
Kevin May, Editor at Travolution.co.uk
Eric Bjorndahl, CEO TravBuddy.com
We were able to conduct more interviews, and they will be featured in future blogs.
If you attended, what were your take aways from the conference? Did you find that most presenters stuck with the “Braving the Long Tail” theme?
Canada-e-Connect, Are You Connected?
Nov 12th
Canada’s first Travel and Tourism Technology conference has come to an end, and what a success it was. Canada-e-Connect was hosted by the Canadian Tourism Commission, and brought together a number of the brightest minds in tourism technology including Anthony Williams (Wikinomics), Hunter Madsen (http://www.Yahoo.com ), Eric Basha ( http://www.Microsoft.com ), Joseph Buhler ( htp://www.PhoCusWright.com ), Jim Brody ( http://tripadvisor.com ), Steve Wright (RadarDDB), Sean Sutherland ( http://www.FlightCentre.ca ), and everyone’s favorite trend finder Jeremy Gutsche ( http://www.trendhunter.com ) amongst many other talented individuals.
The conference had dialog, debates, innovative speeches, and motivational speakers. Hearing all of these innovators share their insights and ideas made everyone buzz new innovative ideas. To share this experience with the public, I will be blogging some of the insights over the next few days. Here is a quick breakdown of some of the speeches I will be covering:
- Evolution Of Distribution
- Amazon’s model
- 3 imperatives
- Book by experience
- Evolution of Advertising/Marketing
- Integration
- Behavioral targeting
- The world of Tourism Goes ‘e’ and Green
- Examples
- Authenticity
- Talks with the DMOs
- Federal
- Provincial
- City
- Mobile Marketing
- Big innovators
- Trends
- Web Conversion
- Motivation vs Usability
- Unlocking Cool
- Great insights and inspirations
- How to go above the norm and make some impact
- Stats and Trends
- Data
- Research
- Traditional Media vs. the Future
I will be updating this blog to share some of the insight from the conference. Tune in and help contribute.