Topic: Tourism

Koh Samui Hotel Reservation – Get One At The Fasting Growing Tourist Destination

Koh Samui Hotel Reservation – Get One At The Fasting Growing Tourist DestinationBlessed with long beaches, attractive coral reefs, exotic coconut tree farms and majestic Buddhist status, Koh Samui is one of the fastest ...READ»

The Top 10 Eco-Friendly Hotels

The greenest vacation is a day hike in your backyard. But if you need to get a little further away from home, there are plenty of responsible--dare we say, trendy--resorts to choose from. Online travel community TripAdvisor ...READ»

Go Ahead Stick Your Head in the Sand, Just Don't Do it in Haiti

As globalization bridges the gap between the developed and the developing world, countries and cultures that were once off-limits are now as close as a mouse click away. Not only is it possible to look up information about the ...READ»

China tour operator, Huangshan Mountain, Suzhou Gardens, Guilin Li River, Yangtze River, Xi'an Ancient City Tour

As a leading China travel agency and tour operator, China Fact Tours offers flexibly tailored and prefessional travel service including individual, family and group tour packages, budget and luxury tour packages, private and ...READ»

Turning Everything Into Tourism

Today's Wall Street Journal has a page B1 article, "New Company Aims to Send Tourists to Space", highlighting the entry of rocket scientist Jim Benson into the space tourism field and competing with the likes of Sir Richard Branson ...READ»

Explore India at your Ease...

From a small beginning in 1998, “Explore India Hotels & Resorts P Ltd.” has grown from strength to strength to become a premiere organization in the country, unmatched for its quality of highly personalized service. Our ...READ»

Rebuilding the Big Uneasy

As New Orleans continues to dry out, efforts are underway to reopen the central business district and tourist quarter as soon as possible. The steps send a multiple message: Life goes on, business as usual -- and tourists, please ...READ»

Tourism 2023 Imagines the Future of Vacations

It's 2023. Climate change, oil shortages, and population growth have become pressing issues. What will the tourism industry look--and more importantly, will there even be a tourism industry? That's the question that Tourism 2023, an ...READ»

Why “Leaders” Can’t Fully Empower Employees

“Leaders” can’t fully empower employees as long as we continue to associate leadership with position, whether senior executive or “team leader”. Organizations desperately need to empower employees more fully in order to ...READ»

The Future of Travel

Where will we be going, and how will we be getting there?READ»

Marketing Lessons from the Olympics in Athens

Less than a month before the Games open, stories already fill the press about troubles in the Greek city: unfinished construction projects, potential traffic jams, and fear of terror attacks. Now the Greek government has another ...READ»

Another Small Step for Man: Spaceport America Breaks Ground

Tomorrow, America's first port for leisure space flight begins construction, with Virgin Galactic as its anchor tenant.READ»

The Future of Travel

The author William Gibson once said “the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” In the case of travel this is certainly true. The travel industry has experienced dramatic change post September 11, but it is ...READ»

Technology: Destination Moon

Travel technology is taking one small leap for mankind in this moon walk anniversary year. It is, after all, forty years this July 20 that the Armstrong and Aldrin set down on the moon. It is also the year that the private ...READ»

Fast Talk: Summer Amusements

It's family vacation time, and in an era of backseat DVD players and jaded youth, we asked the operators of five lower-key attractions how they've adapted to compete in the Spielbergian, conglomerate-driven entertainment universe.READ»

Work/Life: When bright, talented young things can endanger your business

Last post I talked about a young tour company director hell bent on enforcing the P(olicy)-word, even at the risk of sending despondent customers away, so they could tell ten others how sad they were. To his credit, he ...READ»

7 Offbeat Eco Trips

You’ve slept in a yurt in Big Sur, cruised the Galapagos and roared with the grizzlies in Denali. Ready for some new eco-travel ideas? Here, seven unexpected trips worth a look.READ»

• The Green Traveler: Seven Offbeat Eco Trips
• Voluntourism: 14 Vacations for the Socially Conscious

Malmö - lots of brilliant initiatives!

Malmö really is a great city, with lots to do. Check out www.malmotown.com - the official tourism site of Malmö, SwedenREAD»

Work/Life: Policy is a dirty word

Customer evangelism tip: if you want to bring your customers closer to you, don't use the p-word, at least not to their face. Don't say "Our policy is …" because they don't want to hear about your freaking policy. They want to ...READ»

Why the Future Keeps Catching Us Out

Why is it that some innovations score a home run, whereas others leave the field almost as soon as they walk on? Two culprits are timing and the irrational behavior of human beings.READ»

60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible

SpaceShipOne took the $10 million Ansari X Prize for shuttling into suborbital space twice in two weeks. But it was Peter Diamandis, aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created the competition. Now, Diamandis, 42, has moved onto smaller things -- a new prize for nanotechnology. He spoke to Fast Company about his uncharted worlds.READ»

Fifth International Conference on Tourism

Business travel is expected to drop 5.6% this year, according to the U.S. Travel Association. Academics who study travel (sweet gig, right?) will convene in Greece to discuss the decline. There are only about 100 of them, so their ...READ»

Kimberly Williamson

Executive Director, New Orleans Downtown Development DistrictREAD»

Harold E. Doley, Jr.

Founder and Chairman, Doley Securities, Inc.READ»

Brand Marketing: Guinness

How do you refresh a 243-year-old brand? By brewing a modern experience that combines the power of history with the allure of contemporary design. Guinness Storehouse, in Dublin, reimagines how a brand can perform for customers, employees, and the community.READ»