Entries Tagged as 'Destination Marketing'
Maybe I’m on to something. The Adirondack Hiking Guide was at #101 yesterday. This morning it is now #83! This is with practically no SEO other than a few inbound links. Heck it hasn’t even been rated by anyone. Cool. I wonder what would happen if someone actually gave it a rating? Of my several lenses, I have to say that next to Birding, this one has been something I have put a modicum of effort into creating. The Squidoo Lens is not a revolutionary idea, it’s more like a collection of good ideas rolled into one web service.
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Tags: seo·web 2.0
Tourism marketing, particularly destination marketing, is heavily information dependant. In once sense, our primary mission is the gathering and dissemination of relevant data. Witness our massive lodging and events databases. Over at Microperuasion, Steve Rubel notes an interesting article at eMarketer which points to some advertising trends in the mobile communications market.
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Tags: technology·web 2.0·wordpress
“A few seconds before the sun was all hid, there discovered itself round the moon a luminous ring about a digit, or perhaps a tenth part of the moon‘s diameter, in breadth. It was of a pale whiteness, or rather pearl-colour, seeming to me a little tinged with the colors of the iris, and to be concentric with the moon.”
Refers to a total solar eclipse of 3 May 1715.
From: Edmund Halley. [via Mr Eclipse]
Did you know that the biggest event in Libyan tourism is happening tomorrow? What about an all-inclusive Solar Eclipse vacation in Ghana? Or maybe Western Turkey instead?
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Tags: events·tourism·travel