Developing Your Industry Authority
Remaining engaged and continuously growing within your professional field can be a challenge. While there are moments of excitement and discovery here and there, a …
Technology
Television Advertising Rethought
Advertising dispersed within television shows is nothing new, but as advertisers, traditional TV networks, and streaming media services struggle to define how new mediums will …
Technology in My Lifetime
Moore’s Law is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. Coined about 1970, it’s held …
End of the Guidebook 2?
Earlier in 2013 I wrote “The End of the Guidebook?”, inspired by the BBC’s sale of Lonely Planet (LP) and some other stories I read …
Smartphonitis
Anyone who’s been outside of their cave in the last couple of years has noticed it. A creeping change, shift in social behavior, perhaps even …
Mobile Phones may be the World’s Great Equalizer
While more than two billion people live on less than $2US/day and many are likely to not escape extreme poverty during their lifetime, a form …
The End of the Guidebook?
It’s hard to imagine life without the Internet. What’s more intriguing is how quickly much of the world has not only come to depend on …
Technological Travel Distraction
In October 1999, around the time I moved to Thailand, I met a very peculiar Dutch man who was already a long time resident of …
The Digitization of Travel: Part 12 – Final Thoughts
Sometimes I think it’s incredible that any of us continue working in the travel industry. Despite it being exciting, extremely high-touch, and of course we …
The Digitization of Travel: Part 11 – Trends
Almost everyone interviewed for this report felt the next big thing in travel is the continuing rise of smart-phones and tablets. From being able to …