Posted in Travel Trends, Where I'd Rather Be on May 2nd, 2011
At Joobili we love travel more than Andre Agassi loves shaving his chest hair. We also love travel more than he loves tennis, but he hates tennis, which is strange because as we all know tennis begins with love.
Tennis begins with love, but travel begins with Joobili. There’s no point in jetting off somewhere only [...]
Posted in Travel Trends, Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2011
English people like to laugh at the arrogance of Americans when it comes to sport. This is because in the US people like to pretend their teams are ‘world champions’, in spite of the fact the rest of the world either do not play their ’sports’ (i.e. American ‘football’) or aren’t invited to take part [...]
Posted in Travel Trends, Where I'd Rather Be on Feb 4th, 2011
It’s time to go crazy! Snip the ends off business men’s ties, make a giant papier-mâché head of your least favourite politician, parade through the streets in skimpy clothing, drown yourself in endless mugs of beer… in short, enter that weird time-space anomaly that is the pre-lent Carnival Season.
Catholics across Europe (and some cheeky protestants [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Travel Trends on Dec 22nd, 2010
The ladies and gents at Festival Awards are celebrating the European summer music festival hotness by bestowing a number of awards onto the best fests taking place on our strange shaped continent. The shortlist has been announced and votes will be tallied until Jan 12 when the winner is proclaimed. In the meantime, we suggest [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on May 2nd, 2010
Let’s be honest, Iceland had a lot of hate thrown it’s way in recent weeks. If you were one of the unfortunate travelers stranded by the ash cloud I can’t blame you for siding with this ranting Scotsman. Even before Eyjafjallajokull (good luck pronouncing that one), the collapse of Iceland’s economy placed the small island nation at [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Nov 10th, 2009
The best part of today’s World Travel Market adventure actually had nothing to do with the WTM. It was the Travel Blog Camp I attended tonight hosted by Darren Cronian of Travel Rants fame. I was one of the lucky few who attended the inaugural event last year and it was one of my [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Oct 26th, 2009
Last week was spent in Riga at the eBusiness Academy hosted by the European Travel Commission. All of that is just a fancy title for a gathering of e-marketing folks from European national tourism organizations to share some knowledge, enjoy some drinks, and experience Riga. (in that order- promise).
I was invited as a guest speaker [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Travel Trends on Apr 23rd, 2009
I’m back in Budapest now and finally have a minute to share my “illuminations” from the Travolution Summit in London. Clearly I need to take some lessons from Ginny and Mark on writing SEO friendly titles for my blog. Before launching into my highlights I owe a big thanks to Kevin May and his team [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Mar 15th, 2009
I’m just catching up from a very busy week in Berlin where I attended the travel industry’s biggest trade show. My quick highlights were 1) meeting people in-person that I’ve met virtually through blogging and twitter 2) hearing a few interesting seminars on the future of online travel 3) introducing Joobili to loads of European [...]
Posted in Travel Trends on Mar 3rd, 2009
Over the weekend I attended the Central Europe Travel Show held right here in Budapest. It was quaint compared to WTM London and ITB Berlin, but still worth a visit. I gave the regional tourism offices a little intro to Joobili and met with some Hungarian event promoters who plan to upload their events. The [...]
