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A Surprising Addition to the Blogosphere

May 18th, 2006 · No Comments · News

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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The Perfect Storm

May 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments · News

I can’t put in words how amazed I am every morning to not hear that the lawsuit against Maine blogger Lance Dutson has been dropped. The WKP Advertising and the State of Maine by association are playing a game of chicken they cannot possibly win. At this point, WKP might as well quit and change their name forever. The search results to this story will haunt them forever and there is no amount of money that will change that.

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The Growth of Stealth Tourism

May 4th, 2006 · No Comments · Destination Marketing

An interesting press release landed in my reader today about a company in France offering what is referred to as ‘Stealth Tourism’. Basically this is seeing France from the place of an insider. The concept is not really new, but still worth considering. I question the ‘reality’ of the France they hope to reveal. Sounds more like a strange Gallic Potemkin Village type experience. How about an insider’s tour of the Muslim ghettoes with some car burning thrown in? I digress…

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