A link to this interesting set of photos on Flickr titled ‘Locals and Tourists’ has cropped up in a few places now so you may well have already taken a look; if you haven’t it’s worth a glance. The images are maps of cities around the world that show the location of all photos currently available in public Flickr and Picasa search APIs.
Read More >>Posts Tagged ‘Make Travel Fair’
The Backdoor – Make Travel Fair’s Travel Writer Competition
Most of us readily to acknowledge – sometimes perhaps a little too quietly – the impact we make on host destinations when we travel. The most conscientious of us do our best to minimise our impact or make it a positive one, but there’s no question that, by traveling, we are part of something that creates change….
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Brazil / Cambodia / Estonia / Indonesia / Laos / Montenegro / Portugal / Thailand / WHL Group news / media
Ten More #whltravel Tweeps Tweeting
Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, here are another 10 pictures of twitter users from the WHL Group.
Read More >>OPINION: Mining our Internet Social Circles
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…
Read More >>whl.travel’s Growing Presence in Europe and the Middle East
whl.travel moves from strength to strength in the two regions, with local coverage spanning 60 live destinations in 31 countries whl.travel is a global online travel-booking network that began as a pilot project of the International Finance Corporation, or IFC (a member of the World Bank Group), helping unique, locally owned travel product gain access…
Read More >>Countdown to the Fringe RT Network Event – Interview with Stephen Chapman of Make Travel Fair
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…
Read More >>Fringe Responsible Travel Network Event @ WTM 2009
By Paul Tavner . Monday November 9 marks the beginning of the 2009 World Travel Market, one of the travel industry’s most important annual events. While many people from around the world will be descending throughout the week on London’s ExCeL centre to meet, greet and do business, an increasing number will also be making…
Read More >>whl.travel Shortlisted for Travelmole Web Award
On 24 June in London, the winners of the 2009 Travelmole Web Awards were announced. Although both whl.travel and its partner Make Travel Fair were shortlisted, neither took home top honours. We remain no less committed to the work we are doing and look forward to perhaps working with the winners, all of whom we…
Read More >>Free Responsible Tourism Webinar Gives Mic to Travel Publishers
On Thursday 18 June at 13:00 GMT, the second session of a free webinar (Web-based seminar) series about responsible tourism welcomed travel publishers to the stage. Four speakers representing Bradt Guides, Footprint Travel Guides, Lonely Planet Publications and Wanderlust magazine were scheduled to share how responsible tourism is increasingly important to them and their organisations, but…
Read More >>Remember, It’s Only Chinatown
Chinatown is often the area for budget accommodation and an intriguing cultural experience in its own right. But remember that it doesn’t represent the entire city. . Most people are familiar with a Chinatown, often the location of cheap eats and sleeps and hives of activity day and night. I recently returned to Kuala Lumpur…
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