Double blogging for Travolution

Travolution is heading off to the ITT Conference in Gran Canaria today.

ITT has asked the TW Group, the umbrella brand for Travolution, Travel Weekly and Gazetteers.com, to create a "media pod" for the event, including a blog, so our usual live blogging will take place on a dedicated site, ITTConference07.Blogspot.com.

Add it to your RSS readers for regular updates.

Incidentally, our first ever live blogging took place almost a year to the day, at the ITT Conference in Oman.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

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Week ahead at World Travel Market

Coverage on the blog over the next few days will be intermittent (Monday), thorough (Tuesday and Wednesday) and back to intermittent (Thursday).

Yes, it can only be World Travel Market!

The Travolution team will be at the ExCel centre in East London from Monday 6 to Thursday 9 November, alongside our new TW Group brothers and sisters, Travel Weekly and Gazetteers.

You can find us at stand # 1700 in the South Hall.

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week we will, of course, be hosting our two-conference, Travolution@WTM.

Freelance journalist Tricia Holly Davis will be running the blog direct from the conference, so watch out for updates at the end of each session on both days.

[Conference agenda: Day One, Day Two. Delegate List. Book a place]

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

Travel Weekly magazine and blog

Some of you may have already seen that Travel Weekly has relaunched today.

It has a rather striking new look and is in a smaller format. Alongside a new magazine and website, Travolution has been helping out with getting Travel Weekly's first blog off the ground.

Take a look...

Some other housekeeping news: Travolution has today become part of a new division here at Reed Business Information, known as TW Group.

Joining Travolution in the group will be Travel Weekly and travel agent online information service Gazetteers Plus.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

1,000 and counting

In July we revealed how travel agent information provider Gazetteers Plus was introducing “user-generated content” to its trade website.

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It appears the enthusiasm by agents for penning a review of a destination or resort has been rather good, with over 1,000 submitted in just three weeks.

Of course we have to declare an interest here – Gazetteers Plus is part of Travolution parent company Reed Business Information – but the initiative shows that Web 2.0 tools such as user-generated content are equally popular within the trade as well as with consumers.

What is interesting here is that Gazetteers Plus is not used exclusively by one particular travel provider – around 60% of all UK travel agents use the service – and therefore agents are happily sharing knowledge between rival agencies.

You can almost feel the love spreading through the trade…

Kevin May, editor, Travolution