It’s true, camping season is coming quick. Gas prices are up, that’s true, I’ve already gotten my “how will gas impact Memorial Weekend?” call. Add some pre-election bad-economy fear-mongering and you’ve got the perfect reason to enjoy some great New York State camping. ReserveAmerica has just announced their “2008 Top 100 Family [...]

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Hey!  A real blog post.  Since it is almost December and other things, I’ve got some stuff to ponder for the New Year.

I love a good list and since I’m lazy, I’ll use someone else’s template.  These are in no particular order:

Green Marketing - The time is right, it fits the image we want to [...]

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Karin’s got a great interview with William Bakker from Tourism British Columbia.

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The Northern New York Travel & Tourism Research Center has released the results of the 2006 Economic Impact of Expenditures by Tourists on Northern New York study. Or more simply know as the NNYTTRC’s 2nd EIETNNY study. Funny, but just like a good blog post, titles are everything.
Here are some key points from [...]

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These are the REAL free guides. No cost for you, no cost for me.
Almost a year ago, I mentioned this:
Roughly 10% of unique visitors download an English-language PDF (although this can shoot up to 18% during March, a heavy vacation-planning month).
Consumers prefer PDFs to printed-and-mailed materials - Currently 350-400% more consumers will download a [...]

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A favorite marketing prof once told me, “It’s better to go slow and deep, than fast and shallow”. You know, like a submarine.
Bill Geist notes next month’s National Tourism Week and suggests that other non-tourism related economic development can be directly influenced by effective destination marketing:
Tourism is so much more than image building and [...]

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moe. wants to come back - A tough choice to make. I wouldn’t expect the Police Chief to take any other stand other than against. According to some arrest reports, it does appear to be mostly out-of-towners. Well, is it worth it?

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Update: Click below for the big T-List.

Here’s my version of the T-list. This is a list of Travel and Tourism Bloggers started by Mathieu over at Radar.
Instructions
- Write a post.
- Copy/paste the link list from the post you’ve discovered the T-List into it.
- Make sure the links are active and correct.
- If your blog [...]

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Aquarium of the Adirondacks’ Basic Plans To Be Unveiled!
Whoo hoo! I’ve just gotten back from L.A. where I visited the Aquarium of the Pacific. Eh, it was OK. After Disney, I guess I had enough of fake stuff. Looking at fish in a tank is qualifies as fake to me. Guess [...]

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The travel review megasite TripAdvisor.com has just released their annual Travel Trends Survey for 2007. Based on the survey of 4,000 travelers worldwide, they have come up with some exciting findings. It seems the Adirondacks is ideally positioned to be a top destination featuring many of the things travelers are seeking to find, [...]

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