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, and to avoid. I’ll note some of our strengths and suggest some areas of improvement.
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Hello! All you travelers and tourism people did you know that there is a new “top level domain” called .travel? Ha ha, what a joke. Back sometime last year we began getting communication through one of our trade memberships (American Bus Association) about pre-qualifying for the upcoming registration of the soon to be available .travel domain. The whole affair has been one big f*^&*%*$ joke. First you have to jump through lame hoops with some lady at the Bus assoc who vets your potential domain names to see if you are eligible. Criteria? I won’t even begin to bore you with the lameness that is ABA and their so-called pre-qualification criteria.
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Pete Pantuso writes:
If you would have told me last year that as President and CEO of the American Bus Association, I would be writing a blog, I would have stared at you blankly and thought you were a bit mad. But here I am writing my very first blog on behalf of ABA.
Wow, this is very cool, in a geeky, tourism marketing, Web 2.0 kinda way.
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