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You may have heard it, or you’ll soon hear about it: Twitter is going mainstream and is one of THE online place to be for discussing and easily exchange with other people.
For us travel-oriented people, this is also a good place to get in the loop as well as showcase our posts, discoveries.
If you want [...]
I often have some small Madagascar-based tour operators asking for advice on how to “have their own website” without having to pay between 2 millions to 10 millions MGA
Well, I usually answer that you don’ t necessarily have to setup your own website if your goal is only to publish some institutional informations (your contacts, [...]
I am actually wondering if tourism in Madagascar will be affected by the current financial turmoil.
In times of general crisis, it is expected that most potential tourists will adopt the “staycation strategy” (which is staying at home on holiday in a bid to save money),
On the other hand, knowing that most of DMO like the Office [...]
Looking at search terms that visitors of blog use, I found out that you need to dig deeper in order to find relevant information. Although the old theme I used on this blog is good, I needed a more structured theme where I can highlight some topics …
More columns, a feature to emphasize on the [...]
Yet another advocacy for engaging your tourism business into Web 2 (and social networks particularly for this post). Here are (yet another) interesting facts from the New Media Review published by the European Travel Commission.
“Worldwide growth among selected social networking sites, June 2008 (total worldwide audience, age 15+ – home and work locations:
TOTAL INTERNET/TOTAL AUDIENCE: [...]
This post is one of a long series of post that deals with initiatives implemented by other countries/destinations to boost their tourism. The first post was about Philadelfia’s initiative. Why does this matter? Well, the idea is to bring to Malagasy operators some actual case studies that will help us conceive our own programs.
This post [...]
Après les félicitations, revenons à des suggestions d’améliorations pour cet annuaire.
En fait, je n’arrive toujours pas à comprendre pourquoi les personnes qui prennent l’initiative d’éditer un annuaire de cet envergure ne prennent jamais la peine d’en faire une version en-ligne?
J’essaie d’en trouver des raisons:
a- on sous-estime l’efficacité de la présence en-ligne. Ils ont peut-être raison [...]
Interestingly, Madagascar-based hotels are more sensitive to the argument that being part of a community might actually boost their business.
Indeed, if we consider other operators (tour operators for example), we can see that there is a tendancy to act alone (even though the TOP and ONTM has their own website but it’s not as interactive [...]
How come I’ m writing in English on my blog? There are lots of reason, but that’s not the point for this post, so let’s just say that most interesting travel bloggers write in english… And I want to bring the experiences of these people on this blog so that it’ ll be used by [...]
SVP, publiez des informations correctes et à jour concernant vos coordonnées … ou ne les publiez pas
Je me suis amusé à envoyer une invitation par e-mail aux membres de l ‘association TOP: association des tours opérateurs de Madagascar afin que ceux-ci apportent leur contribution, en tant que professionels des métiers de tourisme sur ce blog. L ‘expérience est intéressante:
- sur toutes les adresses e-mail, un seul répondait automatiquement (par robot interposé) [...]
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