My final morning in Hollywood found me out on the terrace, yakking into my cellphone about business and the opportunities which presented themselves out here at this remarkable show. Last night I attended the final party of the show, AOL’s Moonlight Bash, where a swish nightclub was transformed into a […]

We had lunch in the brilliant blinding Hollywood sunshine, on the roof next to an empty glistening pool. I sat next to a couple who worked for Phocuswright, and the conversation got around to my trip on Saturday to Iran. She said that in 1978 she was an exchange student, […]

What is a conference without a few high-class parties? True to Phocuswright form, last night I made my way up to the 20th floor to a party thrown by Pamela Johnston, who runs PJ Public relations in New York City. The job of an effective PR company, of course, is […]

Twitter is definitely replacing the blog as the key application that people are interested in at the PhoCusWright show. During our session, the big screen showed a live feed of all of the twitter comments made during that session and during other sessions. It was real time feedback, comments made […]

WCities is a perfect travel website to adopt a mobile platform, as they focus on detailed destination guides to major US cities. Now I am listening to Fraser Campbell talk about how he provides content to many sites like Yahoo, AOL and others. We do the same thing at GoNOMAD […]

I’m sitting in a room at the Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, it’s a session on blogging, led by a woman from Singapore named Siew Hoon Yeoh who writes a blog there and who told us about the Burmese blogger who went to jail and other horror stories. There is a […]

The first three rows of the vast convention center stage is devoted to bloggers and media. They sit with their laptops pecking out messages on Twitter, commenting on the innovators who one after another got their ten minutes to pitch the crowd on the worthiness of their travel website. I […]