Articles tagged “marketing”

The new Indian tourism minister is making the right noises, and easing visa rules is a surefire way to boost tourism anywhere.

Atlantic City tourism district can't gloat to much on how it escaped damage during Sandy, because most of its feeder markets surrounding it did.

This will be an ongoing effort from the tourism authorities there, as the rebuilding process for the region means continued media spotlight, negative or positive.

A more coordinated effort with a single worldwide agency like Publicis is a good move to help kickstart the Tunisian tourism economy post Arab-revolution.

This has to be the lamest commercial attempt yet at exploiting this meme: Koreans=Gangnam=tech-savvy=social-friendly=lets do't it! That said, Korea's a big target market for Hawaii, especially since it is part of U.S. visa waiver program now.

This is a delicate balancing act: the Icelandair CEO, while working with the govt. to promote tourism, is also lobbying against its imposed aviation taxes.

Anyone who counted Expedia out in its competition against Priceline might have under-estimated the potential of Expedia's hotel platform investments. Meanwhile, Priceline has a very talented management that it is steering it ahead as market conditions change.

Holiday Inn will need branding beyond comfort to draw guests, which is why IHG is also working on a mobile check-in platform and assigning employees to specifically assist business travelers in 2013.

Print advertising in travel is a fading art, as everyone moves to more interactive mediums, so good to be reminded of venues that still pull enough advertisers in the category.

The fall and winter travel budgets are beginning to get spent, at least in tourism sector.