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Winners and Losers of the Crete Hospitality Games

2018-12-12 by Phil Butler

Perivolia outside Chania

Whoever came up with the idiomatic expression “The devil’s in the details,” must have made a bad hotel choice or two in their lives. Since retiring from the travel public relations and marketing game, I notice an uptick in sloppy marketing efforts that are almost completely reliant on Google ads, OTAs, and the big tour operators. For hoteliers here in Greece, the lost opportunity costs of such reliance will eventually tell. It is with this eventuality in mind that I present the following.

Tags: Aquila Atlantis Hotel, Crete resorts, Crete travel, Delena Mountain Resort, Dessole Dolphin Bay Resort, Expedia, Galaxy Hotel Iraklio, Google Maps, Google PageSpeed, Google SERPs, Greece resorts, hotel marketing, Kineticdesign, marketing, mobile websites, Nelios, Nelios Marketing, OTA's, TripAdvisor, websites

Google Maps Helps You Roll-on Thanksgiving Travel

2018-11-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Google News Lab

The folks at Google are trying to solve for “X” again with a Google Maps feature called “Mapping Thanksgiving.”

Tags: Google, Google Maps, google news, Google Travel, Polygraph, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving airport, Thanksgiving trends

Google Earth Collaborates to Show Us Earth Timelapse

2013-05-09 by Phil Butler

Time Timelapse Project

For the geographer or climatologist among you out there, Google has helped develop a fascinating time-lapse view of our planet. Just released today, the stunning perspective via Google Earth, and in collaboration with Time, NASA, and the USGS, offers the most comprehensive view of our planet over time ever.

Tags: climate change, Earth, geography, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, urbanization

Google Maps Adds Ski Resort Data

2013-02-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Just last week, Google added yet another new upgrade to its mapping platform, announcing that the app now carries data for 38 of the most popular ski resorts across Canada and the United States.

Tags: Google Maps, Google Maps Ski Resorts, Ski data, Ski information, Ski Resort data, ski resorts

Google Hotel Finder Adds “Search by Travel Time”

2012-01-23 by Aleksandr Shatskih

google hotel finder

Google Hotel Finder has finally rolled out some of its much-anticipated ‘innovation’, in the form of a new search parameter than allows us to search for hotels by travel time from key attractions and destinations

Tags: filter hotels by travel time, Google, Google hotel finder, Google Maps, Google Travel, hotel finder, hotels, Hotels by Travel Time, ITA, online hotels, Search by Travel Time, search hotels by travel time, travel time

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