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From sports journalist to corporate maverick, Gene Quinn reveals his extraordinary life through three photographs and a souvenir. Our first Memory Maker in the new Photographs & Memories series, Gene recalls his exploits on Patagonia's Penguin Island, exploring glaciers and trekking trails to the tip of the Americas in multiple journeys spread over more than a decade.Best known as the co-founder of Tnooz (now PhocusWire), Gene's illustrious career has included roles at the Chicago Tribune, Viacom, Phocuswright and Confluence Partners. In this intimate look at his life, he pays homage to friend and travel industry mentor Philip Wolf, shares tales of trout fishing, building a school in Malawi and how he lost three toenails. His admiration of astronauts and nautical explorers is befitting for a man who believes when it comes to travel, “Don't pick one favourite place. Pick one you don't know and go learn.” Our Memory Makers choose three photographs and a treasured souvenir of places or people from their travels. The four represent moments of particular importance to them, whether personally or professionally. They take us on a journey, reflecting on the significance of a specific moment in time, the sentiment of the period, and what was going on in the world around us. Produced by Travel Market Life, a Haynes MarComs series. Hosted and sponsored by Atomize. For more episodes and details of the series Photographs & Memories, visit https://www.travelmarket.life/photos-and-memories
Why travel is such an important tool for ‘World Peace’ – really!How travel will look like post COVID? How to make it sustainable without creating more ‘tourist ghettos’?How will airline and hotel loyalty programs emerge from COVID?Why Qatar Airways seems to be such an extraordinary airline?and much more! You may watch this episode on Youtube – The Judgment Call Podcast Episode #34 – Henry Harteveldt -Analysis of the airline and hotel industry. Henry Harteveldt is often called “the voice of the travel industry”. Henry regularly appears on broadcast media, including Bloomberg, CNN, and CNBC. Top-tier print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, The New York Times, USA Today, Travel Weekly and Tnooz. Henry has been an travel industry analyst for more than 14 years, focusing extensively on the airline, lodging/hospitality and cruise sectors. He has published more than 125 research reports during his work at Atmosphere Research. You may reach Henry via LinkedIn.
Niching down is a great strategy for UX professionals, and travel tech is no exception. Today our guest is Jenny Shen — an independent UI/UX designer, travel tech specialist, and digital nomad. You'll learn about different types of travel tools, common UX challenges, how travel companies create quality content, and how to get started in this prosperous industry. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes Philip Morgan's free positioning course RealtimeBoard — brainstorming and mindmapping tool Mini-lives: how to see the world without taking a day of vacation — an article by David Kadavy Jenny's mentorship program Episode 46: How to Find Your Mentor with Greg Gilbert Airbnb, Booking.com, Trivago — examples of travel sites Google Flights, KiweeTravel, Momondo — examples of flight search engines Hack Horizion — travel tech hackathon where Jenny participated Phocuswright, Skift, Tnooz, Amadeus, SITA — travel tech media Travel Tech Con, Travel Tech Conference Russia, Phocuswright Conference, Web in Travel — travel tech conferences Jenny's website Mention "UI Breakfast Podcast" when you sign up for Jenny's UX mentorship program to get 10% off Follow Jenny on LinkedIn Follow Jenny on Twitter: @jennyshen Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Tiny Reminder. Are your projects on hold and you invoices unpaid? This tool will play bad cop with your clients — so you don't have to. Sign up today for our Forever Free plan at tinyreminder.com. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.
Travel industry news and analysis with Gene Quinn of Tnooz… Gene Quinn, Co-founder of Tnooz (a news website focused on news and analysis about travel technology – looking at marketing, systems, devices, distribution, social media, startups – (bio)), joins Pavan Bahl, John Matson and Peter Crysdale at the MouthMedia Network studio at Voyager HQ.The birth of Tnooz, 800 startup pitches, and mobile is the future Quinn reviews Tnooz as an eight-year old brand created in depth of a recession, to cover digital travel economy, resulting in a B-to-B media company. How the industry thinks of itself when covering itself. The digital travel economy, innovation through startups (which mean disruption), running more than 800 startup pitches, looking at systems. How he’s excited about mobile, and started a business three years before Facebook started. Mobile vs. mobile first, vs. mobile-centric, how a lot of companies have created incubators, and looking at global distribution companies like Amadeus. OTA’s, a new merchandising model, and addition to mobile A background in newspapers then cable TV, seeing media business blindsided by digital, adding chat online for digital presence of newspapers. How Quinn left publishing and went feet-first into digital, cut his teeth by making himself available to board of Phocuswright and Philip Wolf, along with alignments with Fred Lalonde and Kevin May. OTAs were one of the biggest changes ever in the travel business, from hotels to travel agent networks, changing the industry fundamentally and fast. The first wave in travel of new merchandising model for the industry, how meta search engines have been libraries of libraries, and mobile is the big next wave. Infatuation and addiction to mobile devices consumes the consumer, and consumers are technologically ahead of providers of travel services.Tours and activities, the currency of privacy, and a fishing bucket list How the tours and activities space is one that hasn’t been cracked yet, and a platform for tours easy to book, buy and experience could be huge, and part of a fundamental value shift, and the need for better queue management, and if removing travel hiccups can be white labeled by piece of technology. Privacy can be a form of currency. Off the Beaten Path personal questions cover rushing home for a birth, the imagination of flight vs. a first experience, and how the excitement remains to this day in taking off and landing, and a fishing bucket list. Mobile is Eating the World and Mobile Ate the World Lavi Industries [Episode 175]
Paying attention to your data is critical if you want to be a successful hotel marketer. The challenge is knowing which metrics to pay attention to and which ones are vanity metrics that can lead you to the wrong conclusion. In this episode, we look at 10 of the most important metrics and why they are important. The inspiration for this podcast came from this awesome blog written by our resident analytics guru, Melissa Kavanagh. Read the full blog here: http://www.fueltravel.com/blog/10-hotel-marketing-metrics-matter/ In The News: Business Travel App Stats (via @Tnooz) https://www.tnooz.com/article/business-travellers-on-apps-and-other-hotel-technology/ TripAdvisor revamps homepage with activity focus alongside hotels http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Technology/TripAdvisor-redesigns-website-to-induce-more-tour-bookings Related articles: http://www.fueltravel.com/blog/deconstructing-the-hotel-conversion-funnel/ http://www.fueltravel.com/blog/fuel-hotel-marketing-podcast-episode-7-how-to-get-more-hotel-bookings-and-influence-people/ Follow on Twitter: @fueltravel @stuartbutler @pdimaio @makavanagh
00:30 Pilar talks a bit about how online communities have helped her build relationships and how many businesses are now relying on communities to sell their products. 07:30 Sally describes what Tripbod is and how the company evolved. 12:25 The role of trust and building the Tripbod community. The Responsible Tourism Networking group. 21:00 How Tripbod has changed as a result of becoming part of TripAdvisor and how Sally's role has changed. Here is the article Sally wrote for Tnooz about her experience of selling Tripbod to Tripadvisor. www.tnooz.com/article/startup-biggest-travel-brands-planet/ 24:05 Two new products: find out more about Neighborhoods and TripAdvisor Travel Guides - check out this Madrid travel guide: www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel_Guide-g187514-Madrid.html 29:18 How is the travel industry changing. 32:55 How Sally's own way of working has evolved. 35:00 Becoming a Tripbod.
Regular hosts Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Kevin May of Tnooz.com
This week's guest is Gene Quinn co-founder of Tnooz.com joins regulars Jen Leo and Chris Christensen
This week's guest is Kevin May of TNooz.com This week's stories: Competitors Claim ITA Acquisition Would Give Google an Unfair Advantage in Travel Search Woman faces three months in jail for stealing hotel towels - USATODAY.com Escaped crocodile causes plane crash | News | Breaking Travel News Bed Bug Registry - Check Apartments and Hotels Across North America McDonald's getting into the wedding business This week's tips: Kevin: ask for an upgrade, Gen-Y Collective Jen: Mashable.com Chris: Avalon River Cruises
Guests are Greg Jourgenson of Bangkok Podcast and Kevin May of Tnooz.comThis Week's News * Violence in Bangkok @vaitor @legalnomads * High Court blocks strike by British Airways cabin crews * More Volcano News * Apple travel app in the future? * Google might buy ITA * Tnooz.com Picks of the Week o Chris - Tuscony augmented reality o Gary - legalnomads.com, iPad o Kevin - Social media in travel