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Black Friday Traveling Companions 2012

2012-11-16 by Phil Butler

The i'm Titanium

Everyone is focused on Black Friday and holiday shopping now, so Argo decided to focus on traveling companions for your next weekend or holiday stayover. Here’s a list of some cool products and places to get them for the coming season. Buying gifts to take to the in-laws, or just in need of some travel friendly gadgets etc., there’s no sense passing up deals or coolness.

Tags: Black Friday, carry on, gifts, luggage, travel accessories, travel gifts, traveling

Oh My, Hotel O Paris

2012-11-12 by Phil Butler

Good morning, you just arrived at a great place to stay

Shining a spotlight once again on places to stay in ever charming Paris, my personal bag of memories opens up. If ever there were a perfect city to live in. Well, maybe just to visit, Paris is awfully crowded. I was reminded of Elegancia Hotels there this morning, in particular Hotel O, a designer boutique […]

Tags: Designer hotels, Elegancia Hotels, Paris deals, Paris hotels, Paris stays, Paris tourism

More buuteeq Innovation, Already

2012-11-09 by Phil Butler

buuteeq tells it like it is

buuteeq, the world’s first so called Digital Marketing System for Hotels, has just announced their most recent product enhancements. According to the startup, a new Design Concierge and buuteeq graphical facelift will greatly enhance hotelier on site conversions and ROI.

Tags: Canyon Villa, hotel marketing, hotel sites, hotel tools, Li-An Lodge, marketing online, online travel, ROI

WTM 2012 Discoveries: Online Travel Training

2012-11-07 by Phil Butler

The OTT Team

For years travel experts, news analysts, even marketing gurus have profession the necessity for travel pros to possess “digital savvy”, well one company is doing something about it. Look at OTT.

Tags: eLearning, GDS courses, site launch, tourism course, tourism training, travel education, travel training, WTM

Update: The Travel Attaché – Definitely Different

2012-11-05 by Phil Butler

Job 1 - Differentiate - my dogma, not theirs

A Middle Eastern travel specialization group, The Travel Attaché, has announced having launched their services from their Dubai headquarters. According to their press, this office is the first in a series that will come to the region soon.

Tags: adventure travel, Antarctica travel, exclusive travel, Luxury experience, luxury travel, travel agents

Editor’s Pics: The World’s Most Picturesque Places

2012-11-04 by Phil Butler

Iguaçu Falls

Everyone has in their mind’s eye, one heck of a lot of pretty destination pictures. White sandy beaches, panoramic mountain vistas, sunsets and sunrises galore, even a pretty girl strolling down a shopping street, these are but a few variations on a theme. Today we would like to add to your mental (maybe even Pinterest) […]

Tags: Bali, Bora Bora, Carpathians, Keukenhof Gardens, Machu Picchu, New Hampshire, Peru, photo ops, Slovakia, travel

All the OTA Commission Fuss “N” Stuff

2012-11-02 by Phil Butler

Dining at the Bosphorus Grill

This will be the shortest analysis post I have written out of many thousands. Many people wonder how come all the fuss over OTAs, commissions, and saving a buck where hotel bookings are concerned. The following little bits of info play into the “why” of online booking analysis.

Tags: Bosphorus views, Kempinski, meta search, OTA's, travel startups, Turkey Travel

Travel Tech Leftovers: rome2rio & More

2012-11-02 by Phil Butler

Trier to Istanbul

In leftover tech news for travel, several bits of merit come into view today. From Carlson Wagonlit’s $20 million acquisition of WorldMate to Stayz buying YesBookit, the digital space is lively this week.

Tags: Carlson Wagonlit, online travel, rome2rio, Stayz, tech moves, travel companies, travel tech, Virgin

Paris in November: Illusions, Humor, and Beautiful Stays

2012-10-31 by Phil Butler

Athene interiors

Paris is one of the handful of places in the world that needs nothing by way of introduction. However, events and wonderful places do change. To that end, we present a famous French humor-illusionist, Eric Antoine along with pretty little boutique places to stay for his shows.

Tags: Eric Antoine, Hotel Athenee, Hotel Le Péra, Hotel Opera Paris, Jacques Garcia, Keppler Hotel, Magic shows, Moulin Rouge, Paris attractions, Paris hotels, Paris shows

Flip.to Hopes to Create “Buzz” Machine for Hotels

2012-10-31 by Phil Butler

Cushy Hotel ROI for Seven

Not many companies have so effectively tackled the language barrier online, not even in travel. News from Flip.to last week tells of not only translating for guests, but interesting benefits for hoteliers too, namely conversions. Flip.to may just have figured a refined way to pay guests and hoteliers.

Tags: brand tools, Elegancia Hotels, Hotel ROI, Hotelier tools, ROI, social marketing, social media, WIHP Hotels

Poland Halloween Deemed Diabolical by Clergy

2012-10-30 by Phil Butler

Platinium Club & Restaurant

For Halloween fans in Poland tonight, your escapades will surely be dampened when you learn Catholic bishops there have condemned the spooky holiday. Clergymen claim Halloween is harmful because the celebration promotes what they term “diabolical behavior”.

Tags: Halloween, Poland Halloween, Warsaw clergy, Warsaw clubs, Warsaw travel

Ghastly European Halloween Destinations

2012-10-30 by Phil Butler

Bloody Sexy Halloween

Not all of Europe is so enamored with playing dress up on Halloween, but if you know the right places and people, you can get down on getting spooky on the old continent. Paris to Istanbul

Tags: Berlin Halloween, Europe Halloween, Halloween parties, Hungary Halloween, Madrid Halloween, Norway Halloween, Paris Halloween, Prague Halloween

Japan’s JTB Moves to Expand?

2012-10-29 by Phil Butler

JTB's Sunrise Tours on Facebook - Don't let the sun set guys, beef up SM

One of the world’s largest travel companies, JTB Group, has signed a deal with emerging tech company llusions Online to enhance the Japanese company’s World Travel eXchange system.

Tags: Asia travel, China, China travel, deals, group travel, Illusions Online, India outbound, India travel, Japan, Japan inbound, Japan travel

Nuance Revamps Sweden Presence

2012-10-29 by Phil Butler

Nuance duty free retail stores worldwide

News of emerging companies on the move tells of Nuance Group opening a new Göteborg Landvetter Airport store, a partnership with Swedish airports company Swedavia, and moves on a wider scale.

Tags: airport shopping, airports, duty free, Europe airports, GECOS, PAI Partners, Swedavia, Sweden travel

Europe’s Oldest Town Unearthed

2012-10-29 by Phil Butler

Provadia -Solnitsata

Archaeologists believe Europe’s oldest urban settlement has been discovered near the Bulgarian town of Provadia. Professor Vassil Nikolov heads a team that is excavating the so called Provadia – Solnitsata archaeological site, believed to date back as far as 4700 BCE.

Tags: ancient ruins, archaeology, Bulgaria ruins, Bulgaria treasures, Thracian, Vassil Nikolov

Expedia Runs Away With Lion Share of Q3 Profits Online

2012-10-28 by Phil Butler

Last Thursday Expedia Inc. announced their Q3 profits beating analyst projections. According to their release (PDF), the world’s biggest OTA’s hotel revenue propelled the unexpected winnings. Shares of Expedia too an appropriate jump, closing up more than 15 percent. According to Expedia hotel revenue increased some 20 plus percent on gross bookings of some $9 […]

Tags: online travel, OTA earnings, Q3 profits, revenue, travel profits

Online Travel Winners: Expedia’s People Shaped Travel

2012-10-28 by Phil Butler

Expedia logo

Of times we can all be privy to being overcritical of each other, but particularly of companies and corporations. Expedia has been a constructively criticized subject of roasting here at Argo Travel many times, but today we thought we would show off a bit of what the world’s biggest online travel agency does.

Tags: Expedia, people of travel, tourism video, travel, travel videos, video, video series

PORTA Hits Latvia November 1

2012-10-27 by Phil Butler

The PORTA festival 2012.

Coming to Riga, Latvia next month the 12th annual PORTA music festival is an event visitors will not want to miss. Artists from around the world are slated to perform.

Tags: Latvia tourism, music, music festivals, PORTA, Riga travel

ITB Berlin’s David Reutz Lays Out 2013 Potential

2012-10-26 by Phil Butler

David Ruetz at a press briefing in 2011 - courtesy ITB Berlin

News from ITB Berlin yesterday saw the head of the world’s leading travel trade show, David Ruetz, projecting to a crowd in Singapore about ITB Berlin 2013. At a press conference Reutz presented facts and figures on this year’s event as well.

Tags: Asia travel, conferences, ITB Berlin, Travel Trends

easyJet Wins London to Moscow Route

2012-10-25 by Phil Butler

EasyJet Aircraft

According to news from easyJet, the low cost airline will begin operating flights between London and Moscow starting early next year. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority having granted the license to EasyJet in preference to Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic, officials cite EasyJet fare benefits as the reason.

Tags: EasyJet, flights, Moscow flights, Russia fares, russia flights, UK flights

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