Browsing Archive: March, 2011
Posted by AudioConexus on Thursday, March 31, 2011,
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PATA reports that Japan Airlines (JAL) is set to decrease capacity of international routes by cutting flight frequency and opting to use smaller aircrafts from April 6-27, 2011. This decision was made in light of the travel demand decrease after the Tohoku Pacific Earthquake. According to a report in eTurbo News, JAL will reduce a total of 74 weekly flights on 11 international routes temporarily, and will downsize the aircraft used on two routes – Tokyo (Narita) and Guam as well as Tokyo (N... Continue reading ...
The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) reports optimism for the Mexico market.
The latest figures from the CTC for December 2010 showed a 27% year-on-year boost in visitor numbers. Working with Air Canada, the CTC is executing a spring campaign to encourage Mexican travellers to visit Canada with special deals and new direct flights from Mexico City to Montréal, QC, Toronto, ON, and Vancouver, BC. Additionally, add-on options include other Canadian destinations.
The CTC will be promoting Cana... Continue reading ...
If you're adding GPS trigger points to your tour or transportation route(s) there are four GPS trigger options to take into consideration: - Non-directional GPS triggers – audio tour commentary will trigger as your vehicle or vessel enters the GPS waypoint from any direction
- Directional GPS triggers – audio tour commentary will trigger based on the “direction” your vehicle or vessel is moving
- Interruptible GPS triggers – tour commentary will be interrupted by the next GPS waypoint
- Uninter...
Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States (U.S.). It is estimated that by 2012, Hispanics will account for nearly one out of five Americans; reaching 50 million. - Hispanics represent the fastest growing demographic in the U.S. today. In 1970, the Hispanic population in the U.S. was 9.6 million, or 4.7% of the total population. This population has now soared to over 45 million, or 15%.
- The Hispanic or Latino consumer market is broken down into persons ori...
TriggerPOINT, our Multilingual GPS Tour System offers sightseeing operators new opportunities for portability and expandability. Offered as both a hardwired GPS digital audio system and a portable wireless GPS tour system - our new TriggerPOINT system for wireless applications is being released with new features this Spring.
This system facilitates automated, wireless, GPS triggered, and simultaneous multilingual prerecorded commentary. It can also be used to deliver group tours by a live gui... Continue reading ...
United States 2010 The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that 60 million international visitors traveled to the United States in 2010, a nine percent increase over 2009. In 2010, the top inbound markets continued to be Canada and Mexico, both of which were up in arrivals, along with all top inbound overseas regional markets.
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Overseas Resident Visitation Surpasses 2000 Levels
In 2010, overseas resident visits (26 million) were up one percent compared to 2000, creating a ne... Continue reading ...
NUMBER OF %
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE ARRIVALS CHANGE Canada 18,693,718 11.3
Mexico 12,234,586 5.9
United Kingdom 3,564,996 -0.5 Japan 3,113,068 17.2 Germany 1,605,986 2.9 France 1,239,712 11.5 Brazil 1,048,808 35.1 South Korea 1,014,816 53.0 Australia 813,346 24.8 Italy 746,498 12.0 PRC (excl HK) 742,930 54.0 India 613,912 18.9 Spain 581,081 7.2 Netherlands 529,086 4.3 Colombia 432,616 18.5 Venezuela 419,727 ...
Posted by AudioConexus on Tuesday, March 15, 2011,
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Looking for more information or presentations from ITB Berlin 2011?
Here are some helpful resouces:
Use twitter? Follow these hashtags: #ITBBerlin and #itb11 Continue reading ...
Marketing efforts should begin with your brand. And a successful brand is authentic. It’s not what people think of you. It’s who you are. What people think of you simply measures how well you express your authentic self to the world. Once you understand your authentic nature, then you can design your marketing communications to reflect your brand message. This establishes a connection with your customers because what you say about yourself on the outside matches who you are on the inside.... Continue reading ...
Posted by AudioConexus on Friday, March 11, 2011,
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We had a fantastic time at ITB Berlin this year. It was great to see old friends and to make new ones - and it was fun speaking with people from Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Thank you to everyone who made this show a great conference to remember!
Here are some of our photos from ITB Berlin.
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Posted by AudioConexus on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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ITB Berlin kicked off today with more than 10,000 exhibitors expecting 100,000 guests.
During the first day we met several tourism organizations who are optimistic about growth in the tourism industry over the next 12 months. International arrivals in Europe this year is forecasted to rise by one to three per cent, while IPK International predicts a one to two per cent increase in travel within Europe.
Another interesting trend being talked about is social media. Social networks are not only i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Doug Humphreys on Tuesday, March 8, 2011,
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In the first quarter of 2011, two separate rules (one from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the other from the U.S. Justice Department) have become effective setting out requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as to how passenger vessels provide services to their customers with disabilities.
Although ADA compliance addresses many facets of mobility, visual, and communicative accessibility, hearing accessibility addresses the largest percentage of the population. “As... Continue reading ...
Posted by AudioConexus on Monday, March 7, 2011,
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Jonathan Stanley, our CEO, rocks at the Passenger Vessel Association conference in St. Louis. We couldn't resist putting this online. :-)
Everybody deserves a shot at a Rolling Stone cover. But since we've heard him sing - this is the only chance he'll ever get!
 A special thanks to Lynn Nield and Photogenic Inc. (an event photography company) who helped us retreive the image from the show. Continue reading ...
Your commications, PR, marketing campaigns, promotional literature, blog, and social media (to name a few) should communicate your business's personality (in a consistent way). To create a personality you really need to understand who you are and why you exist?
How would you describe who you are? And how is this reflected to the outside world?
In other words, does your inside match your outside? How would you describe your business? And does this description match the way people perceive yo... Continue reading ...
When you are creating GPS tours for more than one language, one of the considerations you will have is the length of time it takes to say the same thing in Spanish for example, for a literal translation of English.
This is an important consideration because every language is different, and based on literal translations of an English script, each language you produce will have a different audio segment time. Most of the time, foreign languages take more time to say the exact same thing in Engl... Continue reading ...
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