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Are you Connected? Toursim Industry Bloggers Unite
Jan 3rd
How connected is the Tourism Industry blogging community? There are numerous communities out there that are helping bloggers stay in touch. This post was inspired by Jens, who recently re-launched his popular marketing blog. If you are looking for ways to connect with fellow bloggers, here are some great links to help you connect:
Social Networking:
T-List Facebook Community
The WIWIH Bloggers Group
Turismo 2.0 (Amazing Spanish Travel Industry Blogging Network)
Indexing Sites:
Tips From The T-List
The Ranked T-List
The Recommended (Travolution’s Tourism Industry Bloggers)
Blogger Meet Up:
CES Bloghaus 2008 (not for travel but still one of the largest and most financed meetups)
ITB Berlin March (More information to come)
PhoCusWright 2008 (More information to come)
Staying connected is the best way to grow our community, and new technology is making it easier to stay in touch. Let me know if I have missed anything or if you have any recommendations.
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?