Top Tour Marketplaces Online While traveling has traditionally been slightly passive and relaxing, there is a growing trend to pursue more engaged types of experiences. And some of the packaged experiences are truly amazing. You’ll see them in advertisements or when you visit the major tour marketplaces which I’ll introduce below including Toursbylocals, Viator, Collette…
Best SaaS Travel Management Software Platforms Your choice of travel management software is more important to your travel company than you might believe. It helps you manage your trip and tour package offerings, promote them better, make them more accessible to search engines, open you to an expansion of your tour and trip offerings, and…
Small Business Marketing Report The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) says its latest Small Business Optimism Index jumped 8.0 points to 101.7 last month, the highest level since June 2021. They report the percentage of owners expecting the economy to improve rose 41 points from October to a net 36%, the highest since June…
Hiring Smartly for a Digital Travel Marketing Role As a travel agency owner, DMO CEO, hotel owner, tour operator or SaaS travel software entrepreneur, you’re tasked with the challenge of hiring the right marketing people. Can a single person have real impact on a small travel company? That would depend on their skills, drive, and…
The Rise of Influencers in Travel Marketing Travel marketing companies have a challenge today. If they’re unable to draw enough qualified traffic and convert them to customers, then it could be the consumer market has changed. And keeping clients relevant, visible, and generating leads is becoming more difficult. With SMBs web traffic and social media…
The Power of Iconic Brand Symbols If you’re not up on branding or impressed that brands have any power, you might want to take another look at it. Because a brand is your biggest asset once you build it. Brands have many dimensions, promises, value points, and touchpoints with travel consumers. And your travel content…
Empowering your Tour Business The travel trend is certain. Tours are in big demand and tour companies are becoming much more profitable. Of course, we’re assuming tour company owners are marketing strongly and getting the reach, impact and engagement needed to build an audience that trusts their brand, people and services. On that note, I’m…
Best Travel Destinations for 2025 The 2024 travel season wasn’t so bad and now, in the midst of a changing travel market, we move forward to capitalize on the next travel market opportunities. These most popular and intensely rewarding destinations are important because they’re foremost in traveler’s travel vision. Revenge travel isn’t over, but the…
Top 65 Immersive and Awesome Travel Experiences Across the World to Enjoy in 2024 Looking for an exceptional travel experience, perhaps one specially designed for you? Satisfy your deepest travel cravings many ways on this planet, and why shouldn’t the best be served up just for you? Time to give your travel imagination some room…
Are You Ready to Move to A New City? What if you discovered that a move to a new city could really give your life a lift? Would you do it? Could you do it? If you’ve been struggling with this thought before, maybe you need to assess your actual state and figure out if…
Luxury Living & The Rise of Roof Top Swimming Pools Life in a high rise building is very different from ground level dwellings. And it’s not always easy for condo developers to sell new tower condos or get them leased. And construction is expensive so it might as well be worth it. Developers know they…
Investing and Global Diversification If you scan the 5 year forecast or 10 year forecast for US stock markets, you might conclude that US price and earnings growth doesn’t look as inspiring versus China, Vietnam, Brazil, Germany or other markets. But those investors thinking of investing internationally in Mexico, Japan, Australia, Viet Nam, Germany, Korea,…
US Economic Forecast Part 2 (Continued from Part 1) China’s manufacturing sector has been declining, particularly of late. The communist led country is suffering the worst economic forecast of the last 50 years. China’s in more trouble than anyone will admit even if they print more money to alleviate the losses. China’s propaganda mills are…
Most Desirable Luxury Gifts for Xmas I know you’ve been dying to know the top luxury gift ideas for Xmas because you’re going to treat someone special to an unusually valuable Xmas present. Can one gift make a lasting impression? Oh yes, when it’s something perfect, useful and prestigious, you’ll be remembered long after the…
Property Management – An Intelligent Strategy for Realtors While market health varies across US, Canada, UK and Australia, there is one certainty in the world of real estate — there are too many real estate agents and brokers. This situation is being resolved as we speak. As mentioned in the post on the future of…