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Last week TripAdvisor announced the launch of its Business Travel Centre which focuses on providing rankings and reviews specifically for business travellers – including a Business Popularity Index for ranking the hotels. This move illustrates the importance of pyscho-graphics in user-generated content.

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Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has not been met with very many positive reviews from critics and experts. However, I think that it has the potential to provide a comprehensive search experience beyond many levels especially in it’s almost portal like Bing Travel engine.

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It is my opinion that the Australian and New Zealand backpacking industries are about to experience a downturn in traveller numbers that is unprecedented and unsustainable against such a large number of service providers. In this case only those with the best possible products will survive and thrive.

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I am very late in Internet world reporting this campaign – it has even made it onto a mention on Rove! There has been an outcry in Australia over the backpacker in the wet t-shirt dancing at the World Shed in Cairns which has gleaned lots of media attention – plus the dog and [...]

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Air New Zealand launches it’s own social network called Get Amongst it. Is this a good Internet strategy and is it going to be successful?

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Since we realses the beta version of Travel Generation we have been receiving a decent amount of media converage – here is a snippet.

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Although it has been a few weeks since we released the new look and feel for Travel Generation I have yet to sort of declare it open season as we iron out a few bugs and have the super elite beta testers go to work on it. However, for most now they would have seen the massive overhaul we have done to the Travel Generation website and most obviously the blog and the home page.

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I just became the mayor of Hot Rock Backpackers Hostel Rotorua on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/d7Zkte

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