When I was in London on July 6, 2005, the city was celebrating. After a long bidding campaign to host the 2012 summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee had declared it the winner. On the subway, everyone was buzzing and smiling until an old bearded man got on board and started nay-saying. He made an impression on me, so I decided to look into the expectations surrounding this year’s most recent mega-event, the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

What needs to happen in the local travel knowledge website space… The internet is all about social these days, it has been for sometime, and as more of us become more active on the major social networking sites it’s becoming increasingly apparent that although our number of ‘friends’, ‘followers’ or ‘connections’ can be huge, the…

As part of the run up to next week’s Fringe Responsible Travel Network event, we’re talking with veteran attendees. I caught up with Stephen Chapman, founder of Make Travel Fair (a media sponsor of the event along with whl.travel), to get his take on past events and to see what he’s looking forward to on…