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Online Reviews

By Cari, on January 27th, 2008%

Online Reviews of Hotels and Restaurants Flourish in today’s New York Times certainly caught my attention, due in part to last semester’s consulting project.

Many of the reader-generated reviews of hotels, restaurants, destinations and other travel services on the Web may have started their lives as independent blogs by travel buffs. But they have consolidated into major online businesses, taking an ever-growing piece of the market from print guides.

While there’s no doubt that the resources, financial and otherwise, that come from the big corporations can help a site I can’t help but wonder if it causes the same problems that face the . . . → Keep Going: Online Reviews

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Tourism and Social Media

By Cari, on December 11th, 2007%

In the middle of the insanity that is consulting and exploring social media as it relates to tourism (says she who is the *very* late adopter when it comes to some of this), I found an interesting new-to-me blog: Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Actually, I lied. I didn’t find it. Google did. Or more precisely this post on TripAdvisor and from there I found the author’s Travel & Web 3.0: Overview. Interesting stuff there. One thing I’ve definitely taken away from this class is how much larger the reach of the internet and social media in the hospitality and tourism industry is.

I . . . → Keep Going: Tourism and Social Media

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