A few weeks ago during the harvest season, I took the trip up to a South Florida strawberry farm; The Girls U-Pick Strawberry Farm in Delray Beach, FL. At first glance, you wouldn’t expect the Girls U-Pick to have the location that it does. Nestled into a typical strip mall, once inside, one is pleasantly surprised. The farm contains hundreds of rows of strawberry plants for picking. Done in an innovative hydroponic method of planting, [...]
Have some free time and $599 floating around? Jet Blue has launched an All-You-Can-Jet-Pass where purchasers can enjoy unlimited travel from September 8th to October 8th to any city that Jet Blue flies to. Jet Blue flies to 57 cities and has over 600 daily flights – including some tropical destinations like Puerto Rico, Cancun, Aruba, Jamaica and the Bahamas! It will be interesting to see who buys the pass and where they use it [...]
Dave Carroll was traveling on a United Airlines flight when he noticed bag handlers in Chicago throwing his Taylor guitar. Upon retrieving his luggage, he noticed the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. After months of arguments and playing the blame game, Carroll told United Air since they would not compensate him, he would retaliate and make a music video about the experience and post it on YouTube. United Airlines reponse: Go Ahead. Result: The video [...]
Paris: the city of light, and also the city of an empty pocketbook. This world class city in western Europe is full of things to do, but many times at a high expense. In my junior year of college, I studied abroad in Paris. Being a student, I quickly learned how to get by on little cash and still have a lot of fun. Here are Travel Marketer’s personal favorite FREE things to do in [...]
Last week, I attended the PhoCusWright Blogger’s Summit Workshop held at the ITB conference in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was entitled “The Top Social Media Trends for Travel & Tourism” and featured a panel of 5 major bloggers. Each member of the panel was asked to provide his 3-5 top Social Media Trends for 2009: Darren Cronian Mobile Twitter: companies are going to have to become more social and interact with the consumer Travel companies [...]
Twitter, the social networking and micro-blogging service, seems to be sweeping the nation. Twitter allows users to send and view others updates (called tweets) which are 140 characters in length. Like Facebook, Twitter originally started for others to be updated on the happenings of their friend’s daily lives. The main difference between Twitter and Facebook is that Twitter encourages a dialogue, allowing opportunities to be built with people which would not have otherwise occurred. It [...]
Happy Fat Tuesday! This past weekend I visited one of my favorite U.S. cities, New Orleans, for the start of the Mardi Gras celebrations. If you want to celebrate and are unable to make the trip to the Big Easy, the internet has some great ways to make it feel like you are there. Throw on some party beads and watch the parades!Click here for a live webcam of various shots of New Orleans, as [...]
In the current economic downturn, the travel industry has taken a hard hit. The challenge of getting people to spend their hard-earned money on leisure travel is rising by the day. Convincing people to travel has now come down the strategic marketing plans set forth by industry leaders. To me, airline marketing has always been interesting to observe. Each company takes their own individual approach to grab the consumer and convince them that they need [...]
As way of an introduction, I will tell you a little bit about the purpose of this blog and the origins of it. Starting at a young age, I was exposed to different cultures and creative outlets. My father is from Brazil, my mother American, and I spent my first few years of my life living in South America before moving back to the states. I have always loved traveling and exploring the world and [...]
