Forecast for November - A Perfect Storm
The theme for this PhoCusWright 2008 is “The Perfect Storm: Search, Shop, Buy.” The potential for discussion around this theme is intriguing because I think there is a lot of opportunity to show how online travel is blurring the entire process and how some opportunities are clearly being lost because of a lack of consolidation between these distinct travel purchase steps. In my opinion there are actually four distinct steps in the travel planning process: Dream - This is a visionary step where the traveler dreams about where they might want to go based on their unique travel style and lifestyle... Read more »
I have spent the last two weeks downloading, uploading, re-downloading, and re-uploading thousands of archive emails to and from two different mail servers in a futile attempt to keep four years worth of corporate email in searchable archive using Gmail. Since we (Sentias) decided not to continue managing our own Linux/Qmail corporate email server and to use Gmail instead, we have been struggling with the issue of how we move over 6 GB of stored emails to Gmail. I’m sure I am not the only person who has had to deal with this, which is why I decided to share an excellent application that... Read more »
Well you know the rest. I don’t usually write about travel and tourism marketing because I leave that to my fellow bloggers who specialize in that sphere, but I couldn’t help but comment on this marketing campaign from Travelocity subsid, Zuji.com. The concept is that they will produce and market everyday goods and sell them at ridiculously low prices so that people can save up for a holiday and, I suppose, book the holiday online with Zuji.com. I don’t consider myself a genious by any stretch of the imagine, but I don’t get it. In my experience people will not apply... Read more »


