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CRISIS, what crisis? You can now fill up with petrol for less than $50 and use your spare change to buy a ticket for No Vacancy in Sydney on March 19 for just $449 - a saving of $100 off the standard rate.
No Vacancy will be a great day featuring industry leaders, panels, case studies, presentations and strategic insights.
These high-profile speakers have already confirmed and plenty more are on the way:
- Rachel Argaman, CEO Toga Hospitality
- Paul Constantinou, Chairman, Quest Serviced Apartments
- Robbie Cooke, CEO, Wotif.com
- Adrian Currie, MD Australia NZ, Booking.com, Chairman of Agoda.com
- Dean Dransfield, MD, Dransfield Hotels & Resorts
- Alan Featherby, CEO, Rendezvous Hotels and Resorts International
- Paul Fischmann, CEO, Eight Hotels
- Sebastian Fontanarossa, Director of Strategic Marketing –Pacific, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts International Operations
- Gabi Kool, Managing Director, Voila Hotel Rewards
- Ronni Kahn, Founding Director, OzHarvest
- Nick McCaw, Director, Hotel SO
- Ken Minnikin, Director of Marketing, Stella Hospitality Group
- Maria Taylor, Vice President Distribution, Accor Asia Pacific
- Adrian Williams, General Manager, Formule 1
- Michael Walmsley, General Manager, Hitwise
- Jon Wild, Global Marketing DIrector, HotelClub.com
Over the past two years No Vacancy has established a strong reputation for dynamic programming and great networking - almost 240 delegates attended the 2008 event.
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Oops, missed TRAVELtech this year?
Don't worry, Australia's leading online travel distribution and tech event will return bigger and better in early September 2009.
Meanwhile here's a few images from the 2008 event to whet your appetite.
TRAVELtech is an annual conference that examines the latest online travel marketing and web-based innovations in an informative and entertaining manner.
It has a well-established reputation for delivering relevant, high-quality content and excellent networking - see a sample of TRAVELtech 2008 delegates.
If you have any questions, please call Martin Kelly on 61 2 9882-1575.
Please visit the TRAVELtech photo gallery to see some more images from the 2008 event.
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Newsflash - No News Is Bad News For Websites
By Martin Kelly, Editor, Travel Trends
THIS may sound petty but it’s really bugging me so I’ll just come right out with it. I cannot take companies seriously that don’t keep the ‘News’ section on their website updated. Why feature a news section if it’s full of old stuff? That’s not news. It’s a rotting smell telling everyone who goes to the site that the company in question – and there are lots of them – does not care about getting the simple things right.
A case in point is the Oaks Hotels and Resorts site, which I visited today. I was looking for an announcement the company made recently. What I found was the PR equivalent of a dinosaur’s grave yard. The most recent press release was more than two years old, dated 5 September, 2006. Yet the company is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (where I eventually discovered what I was looking for) and has more than 30 properties under management.
Cleary Oaks makes announcements all the time but hadn’t bothered to put them on its primary branding medium – which is what websites are these days. Ironically, the Oaks website appears to have been designed with the media in mind. Not only does it feature an ‘Oaks News’ page (highlighted on the menu bar), the site also has a ‘News and Media Releases’ page. The only correlation between the two is that they each feature old news – none of the information appears to be the same.
Companies can’t get away with this stuff any more. They cannot post words like “With a clear focus on the need to meet the expectations of guests and the performance required by investors, Oaks Hotels & Resorts are well placed to deliver successful outcomes on all future management undertakings” while ignoring Communication 101. At some point the brand and its message has to suffer. Travel Trends.biz: October 29, 2008
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