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Travel Tips Fuel surcharges can camouflage the real cost of airline tickets, Michael Taylor discovers as he books a flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok to attend the Digital Innovation Asia Bloggers Match-up. When I search for an airline ticket to attend the Digital Innovation Asia Bloggers Match-up in Bangkok, Thailand, I do a flexible …
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Blogger Match-up Part Two Michael Taylor flies to Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in a blogger match-up organized by Digital Innovation Asia. He arrives well past midnight and heads straight for the Rembrandt Hotel. Travel bloggers and travel industry professionals from across the Asia Pacific have arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, for what organizers are calling the …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part One Michael Taylor is about to embark on another adventure. This time he is headed to Bangkok, Thailand, where he will attend the first Travel Bloggers Match-up. Coming Monday night: the Digital Innovation Asia Awards. What do Tourism New Zealand, Tourism Malaysia, and Tourism Indonesia have in common? Their websites have …
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Staff at Express Inn are friendly and helpful. Photo Credit: Accidental Travel Writer. Cebu Adventure Part Three Michael Taylor wins a round-trip ticket to Cebu on Cebu Pacific Air. He spends his first one and one-half nights at a budget hotel near the airport, where his room has an Internet connection that would shame most …
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If you think that traveling in the Third World is a boon to local economies, think again. According to estimates, only US$5 of the US$100 you spend on holiday in developing countries stays in the local economy. The rest heads overseas. Let's take those sybaritic spa treatments that we all love so much as an …
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A pro-active hotel concierge in Tokyo, Japan leverages social media website Facebook to help a guest find a shop where he can buy some cool Japanese style canvas shoes.
Scenic World in Jamison Valley in Blue Mountains Australia experienced a 300% rise in tourists from China leveraging Chinese social media platforms
Are Facebook friends really "friends"? What happens when two on line buddies meet face to face for the first - or Thanksgiving dinner, Balinese style.
A boutique hotel with private villas in West Bali had better Wi-Fi than most five star hotels. There was need need for passwords, no signing in, and no ads.
Is posting pictures of yourself at five star resorts or fancy restaurants on Facebook or Twitter a form of bragging - or smoasting - social medai boasting?