Preparing Realtors for 2026’s Market Breakout
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Preparing Realtors for 2026’s Market Breakout

Are You Ready for 2026? With home sales sagging to record lows this year, some Realtors might have trouble visualizing sales success for themselves. But like it is in any industry, where the mind goes, performance flows. It’s time to get ready. There’s so much pessimism saturating the real estate sector (e.g., Florida) that Realtors…

How to Beat AI Travel Companies
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How to Beat AI Travel Companies

How You Can Beat AI Travel Agencies I’m sure you know all about the AI automation trend, and the threat it poses to your agency – AI-powered flights, hotels, tours, itineraries, marketing and more. The rising numbers of AI travel agencies and AI travel marketplaces are plotting ways to replace human involvement with AI travel…

Reach Unique Niche Customers Across the Globe
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Reach Unique Niche Customers Across the Globe

Massive Global Market: Your International Content Strategy How nice would it be to relax and enjoy an amazing and massive flow of travel customers from across the globe, wowed by your brand and content, fully trusting that booking with you is a great decision sure to satisfy? Sometimes a wider audience is the solution to…

Should Alberta Separate From Canada?
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Should Alberta Separate From Canada?

Alberta Separation from Canada? The G7 meeting held in Kananaskis, Alberta this week, a perhaps too majestic setting in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. However, the photo op event makes it the perfect time for Americans, Brits, Australians, Germans, and Asian readers to get an authentic view of what’s going on here in Canada. Canada…

Optimize Your Trip and Tour Descriptions
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Optimize Your Trip and Tour Descriptions

  ✍  How To Optimize Your Travel/Tour Descriptions Hundreds of millions of travelers are online, mostly using Google, and they follow a finding path to destinations, hotels, trips, tours and more. Everything they see on their path to travel fulfillment, that stream of travel content is a description of a desired experience. The final destination…

Why the Travel Sector is the Best Industry to Work In
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Why the Travel Sector is the Best Industry to Work In

😎  Compelling Reasons Why You Should Choose the Travel Sector I’ve worked with clients in many sectors, but I’m most enthused about the travel sector.  I’ve found real estate and the sports equipment sectors stimulating too. But there’s just something about travel that puts it front and center. It’s not just about living the good…

Travel Tour Marketplaces
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Travel Tour Marketplaces

🚗Top Tour Marketplaces Online The tour industry has grown in leaps and bounds, as global travelers search eagerly on Google, Bing and tour company websites for interesting travel experiences. Travelers want something invigorating or interesting to do for a sense of personal meaning, and a feeling that they’re immersed in these wonderful places. It’s all…

Travel Business Owners Face a Challenging Travel Market

Travel Business Owners Face a Challenging Travel Market

Navigating Challenges and Threats Through the Next 5 Years Without good insights into demand, trends, challenges and threats, it might be hard for travel agency owners, DMO chiefs, and hotel managers to feel really confident about their travel marketing strategy — whether for 2025-2026 or the long view. With the stakes high, going down the…

Why Visibility is Everything in Business
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Why Visibility is Everything in Business

Visibility is Everything Whether you’re in the travel business or in real estate sales, being discovered and getting your message heard is paramount. And I’m reminded of what SparkToro’s well-known CEO and co-Founder, Rand Fishkin said recently — that discovery is the next big marketing objective, ahead of clicks.  Because as he puts it, being…

North America’s Best Cottage Escapes
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North America’s Best Cottage Escapes

🚗 The Great North American Cottage Escape: 15 Idyllic Summer Retreats for Families There’s a compelling magic in a summer spent in a rented cottage—where the rhythm of the days slows to the pace of lapping water, sizzling grills, and children’s laughter echoing through the trees. For families, it’s the sweet spot between adventure and…

Mindtrip.ai | AI Trip Planner
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Mindtrip.ai | AI Trip Planner

🤖  MindTrip.ai Personalized Travel Planner It’s 2025, full of amazing marketing and sales opportunity for travel companies.  A good deal of this big potential is evolving from new AI chatbot-powered trip itinerary planners. As you’ll see below, these amazing AI-powered software solutions can do a lot of work, in a fashion that is satisfying for travel…

Best Mountain Biking Vacations in the World
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Best Mountain Biking Vacations in the World

🚵🏽‍♂️  21 Unique Mountain Biking Vacation Destinations Mountain biking as a sport or thrilling adventure is evolving and resorts, DMOs, and tour companies are designing more sophisticated and satisfying experiences for MTBers. As new venues/trails are created around the world, and the diversity and number of riders increase yearly, the types of vacations mountain bikers…

Canada’s Beautiful Okanagan Valley
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Canada’s Beautiful Okanagan Valley

Visit Canada’s Beautiful Okanagan Region 🚲It was in 1985, that I rode my bicycle from Banff, Alberta to the Okanagan region of British Columbia, in Canada. That epic 300-mile trip through towering snow-capped mountain ranges, past raging glacier-fed rivers and giant red cedar and hemlock forests into a thrilling 50 mph ride down undulating mountain…

mathew turner photography
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Travel Agency Business Improvement

Your New Theme of Efficiency, Service and Performance Many travel companies are being forced to reorganize this year as politics reduces travel demand, and travel consumers become harder to reach. Travel has changed. It’s more competitive, revenue outlooks are weaker, and consumers have new expectations about travel companies.  You’ll need to improve the message you…

BNPL Travel | Buy Now Pay Later Services for Travel Industry
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BNPL Travel | Buy Now Pay Later Services for Travel Industry

💵 Buy Now Pay Later a Growing Opportunity in Travel Market While many wealthy Canadian, European, and American travelers can easily pay for their vacations and trips, most others are stretched to make them happen. Not being able to buy a travel package right away, as expected, means they don’t.  And that results in making…

SEO Services Toronto | Expert Search Engine Optimization Company
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SEO Services Toronto | Expert Search Engine Optimization Company

SEO Services Toronto It’s a new business environment for many Toronto companies in diverse industries ranging from travel to manufacturing to software development. A US business cultural trend to exclude Canada is afoot, and a good way to counter that threat is to employ effective digital marketing. A comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages high-quality content…

US $1.2 Trillion Trade Deficit a Massive Problem
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US $1.2 Trillion Trade Deficit a Massive Problem

The US Gargantuan Trade Deficit with the World International Trade has been heralded as the greatest thing all the way back to the 1970s. The claim was based on the premise that nations would exchange goods and services they were able to make, and that countries wouldn’t be taken advantage of or run big deficits…

Trump Tariffs on Europe Bring Anger & Resignation
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Trump Tariffs on Europe Bring Anger & Resignation

Europe on the Brink of Economic Disaster After President Trump announced its sweeping tariffs on imports into the US, Europe has suffered paroxysms of fear and doubt about its continued existence. While the EU is justifiably unhappy about the new tariffs of 20% on the EU, they should recognize that it could be much worse….

Post Tariff Analysis | US Reindustrialization
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Post Tariff Analysis | US Reindustrialization

Trump’s Tariffs in Effect Yesterday, President Trump announced his promised, sweeping tariffs on foreign imports into the US, and the world looks very different. He lamented that this is the end of taking advantage of the US and it will be a boom economic period in the US. Today, investors dumped their favorite stocks of…

Liberation Day: President Trump’s Global Tariffs
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Liberation Day: President Trump’s Global Tariffs

Trump’s Liberation Day: Launching US Business The world isn’t so pleased with Donald Trump since taking office, but Americans are about to enjoy a very prosperous period. Today’s event announced 50% reciprocal tariffs on nations that tariff the US. The event was a huge success for him politically given he not only announced protective tariffs…

Reorganize your Travel Business for a Better Future
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Reorganize your Travel Business for a Better Future

It’s Time to Reorganize your Travel Business It’s a fact of business life that the consumer market changes. And we need to adjust. Travel agencies, hotels, airlines, DMOs, and tour companies are seeing valued long-time customers disappear while new ones become available. This current tourism slowdown comes as technology is changing travelers choice and they…

Alberta Canada Vacation

Alberta Canada Vacation

Visit Alberta’s Amazing Attractions This Summer Picture waking up in a natural paradise of mountain peaks, rugged mountain landscapes, wild elk and mountain sheep, pristine blue/green alpine lakes, to venture out on thrilling hiking trails that are on everyone’s bucket list. Picture modern hotels with comfortable spas, swimming pools, and mountain views. See yourself strolling…

Is Trump Trying to Crash the US Stock Market?
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Is Trump Trying to Crash the US Stock Market?

Is President Trump Trying to Crash the Stock Market? 🎢The themed wild roller coaster ride called Mr. Trump’s Wild Tariff Ride is providing lots of thrills and spills for the globe. I wonder if Disney or 6 Flags are designing a roller coaster in his honor, perhaps one that stops and goes backward? In the…

The 30 Best Travel Destinations in the World
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The 30 Best Travel Destinations in the World

30 Top Travel Destinations in the World Remember the old saying “the world is your oyster?” Well, it still is! For an adventuresome traveler, the globe offers up a seemingly endless supply of potential destinations. From the Mayan Riviera to the Italian Riviera, and the Canadian Rockies to the the Alps, there’s an adventure waiting…

International Opportunities for Canadian Companies
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International Opportunities for Canadian Companies

How Canadian Companies Can Get Past the US Tariffs If you’re a business owner in Ontario  and Quebec, the new tariffs from President Trump are a big problem. Update: Now that President Trump has announced the global tariffs, and that Canada will be spared if it meets the requirements of the USMCA deal. What was…

Canadians Changing Travel Plans and Outlook
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Canadians Changing Travel Plans and Outlook

Travelers Changing Vacation Preferences President Trump’s tariffs are only beginning to send negative ripples through the Canadian economy.  It’s still early but it looks like Canadians will increasingly alter their travel plans away from the US. Today, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford visited the US White House with the Canadian trade minister, Trump reiterated his…

Impact of Trump Tariffs on US Stock Market
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Impact of Trump Tariffs on US Stock Market

Trump Tariffs Spoiling Investor’s Party It wasn’t so long ago that stock market investors were salivating at the launch of the Trump pro-US era with its promise of low taxation, de-regulation, less government interference, US manufacturing support, lower interest rates, and maybe even lower inflation and interest rates. If it didn’t sound too good to…

Your Agency Dominance Begins with Costa Rica
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Your Agency Dominance Begins with Costa Rica

Connect with Financially Strong Costa Rica Travelers You might be selling trips to all over the world and doing okay. And you might have your favorite destinations to serve. However, what if expanding to new destinations and reaching new types of travelers is wiser?  Because when you tap into a better-quality prospect pool, you might…

30 Affordable Destinations You Might Enjoy More
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30 Affordable Destinations You Might Enjoy More

2025, The Year to Save Money on Travel! It’s 2025 and travelers have a lot of travel options on their travel menu including transportation, hotels, itineraries and tours to choose from. It’s time to find the perfect travel experience for your family or group. With the rise in the US dollar and the political strife…