Articles tagged “junkets”

The junket has a two-fold purpose of attracting both Egyptian travelers and the tourists that use Egypt as the gateway into African tourism.

For now the audience for individual travel bloggers is minuscule, so consumer effects are still unknown despite the claims, but over time the travel industry will have to answer questions about "buying" influence.

VirtualTourist demonstrates that both it and the contributors it values the most still don't understand the difference between the legitimate press and those who write press releases.

Blogging has real benefits for destination marketing, but the iAmbassador program (and others like it) create a false sense of value based upon a wave of chatter without any corresponding mainstream interest.