I have been RACKING my brain over this – How do you become accessible to emerging tourist markets? —->Brazil, China, and India? Â That’s just the powerhouse economies, and we shouldn’t forget
RoomKey.com, OTA’s, Online Distribution, Google, and the changing landscape of online travel
And here comes RoomKey… filling an empty space that the OTA’s have bungled. Here’s an article on Room Key, the hotel brand search engine. Upshot (summary via TNOOZ): Choice Hotels International, Hilton
The Evolving Check-In
Where people are isn’t as important as why they are there. The next stage is communing around the places, and understanding that the individual person is simply a node in a much vaster network.
Filter Ethics, Hidden Streams, & the eroding open internet
Filter ethics. This is the most important thing regarding Facebook & other online communities that very few people are talking about. Â I note here (June 2010) that hidden streams destroy any legitimacy
PRIVACY IS OVER. It’s a semantic issue. People really mean “civil liberties”, whether they know it or not.
Hotels, arguably, are among the most sensitive organizations in the world when it comes to respecting all levels of it’s guest’s / patron’s privacy. It’s not our responsibility, however, to be blamed for the growing pains involved with the greatest shift in human communication’s history. Unfortunately, until we resolve these issues…. everyone will grimly fantasize about being important enough to be stalked. It’s not that I am that cynical, it’s just that I know we may not be *that* interesting.