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Gstaad Palace: Green, Luxuriant & Progressive Too

2012-03-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The view from Gstaad Palace, incomperable

One of the world’s exclusive eco-friendly hotels, the Gstaad Palace, has elected to use Global Hotel Exchange, a revolutionary new online booking platform that makes an ideal bed-fellow for one of Switzerland’s most inventive and luxurious places to stay. As this fabulous Swiss resort proclaims in their video at post’s end, “Gstaad Palace is far more than just a hotel.” Where forward thinking joins old world tradition, excellence resides.

Tags: five star, five-star hotels, G+, g+ pages, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, Google Plus, Gstaad, Gstaad Palace, Luxury Hotels, Palace Spa, Swiss hospitality, Swiss hotels, Switzerland hotels, Switzerland travel, World hotels

Selected London Hotel Images from Google Plus

2012-02-16 by Phil Butler

Hazlitt’s 6 Frith Street, Soho Square London

Reading the Google News ticker this morning we ran into some extraordinary images via hotel pages on G +, so we thought we would share. For the travel enthusiast, there is perhaps no imagery more effective than the views of and from a hotel. For the hotelier, imagery is certainly the Holy Grail of media. Let’s look at some extraordinary examples from random hotels.

Tags: 5 star hotels, Augustus Collection, G+, g+ London, Google Hotels, Google Plus, Grange City, Grange City Hotel, Grange Hotels, Hazlitt’s, hospitality wonders, hotels, Langham Hotels Collection, London, London 5 Star, london hotels, Mandarin Oriental, marketing, Rochester Hotel London, SAVOY, technology, World hotels

Bulgaria Poised to Launch a Launch?

2011-11-22 by Phil Butler

Bulgaria's Ministry of Tourism is out to lunch

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism ramps up their outreach to the UK and the world. Announced at WTM 2011 London, just how far has Bulgaria’s tourism move come?

Tags: ad campaigns, ad channels, Anelia Genova, Bulgaria at WTM, Bulgaria tourism, Bulgaria travel, Bulgarian Lev, G+, Google Plus, Ivo Marinov, Sophia, Traycho Traykov, WTM

TripAdvisor’s Fake Reviews Sickness Goes Critical

2011-09-02 by Phil Butler

TripAdvisor Joker

TripAdvisor, the leading online travel reviews site in the world, is now under investigation by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over concerns reviews from travelers may be illegitimate. A formal investigation has reportedly been launched on the heels of complaints TripAdvisor’s reviews problems have reached monumental levels.

Tags: Advertising Standards Authority, Amazon, Craigslist, David Streitfeld, Digital Point, Expedia, fake reviews, forums, G+, Google Plus, Google Travel, hotel reviews, Kwikchex, online reviews, online travel, restaurant reviews, SEO, Tnooz, TripAdvisor, trusted reviews

Terra Firma, Friends, and Travels Shared Through Google +

2011-07-25 by Phil Butler

Traveling with Google +

If there is one thing concrete that we can say binds all of us, it is good old Terra firma herself. In a very real way, the Earth beneath all our feet, like our own humanity, can teach us a lot about one another. Maybe this is one reason travel is so fantastically popular – as human beings we a

Tags: Brian Solis, Engaged, Facebook, Gina Trapani, Google, Google founders, Google Plus, Google Travel, Google's engagement, Lifehacker, Mark Zuckerberg, Picasa, Robert Scoble, Sergey Brin, social meda travel, social networks, social travel, the social network, travel pics, travel tools

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