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Paul Smith, a journalist for the Guardian, really believes in the power of Twitter and wants to prove the world he can do something out of the ordinary with it. That is why he is starting a quest that will take him as far as Twitter takes him, with the ideal final destination [...]
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Valentine’s Day is approaching, and for those of you who still haven’t decided where (and with whom??) to spend it, here’s a series of inspiration sources to draw from.
For those of you who are based or heading to the US, our friends at Tripwolf prepared a list of the best places of the [...]
It is a real travelful week in London! Today we visited Destinations, a great fair held and organized at Earl’s Court by The Times. We spent the whole afternoon getting inspired by the hundreds of colorful and amazing proposals catered by anyone from national tourism bureaus (Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, to name a few), to travel [...]
So where are all the backpackers going? As reported by The Lost Girls, the Hostelling International recently released their bookings data, and we discovered that the top 10 favorite backpackers destinations are:
France
USA
England & Wales
Italy
Spain
Argentina
Norway
The Netherlands
Switzerland
Belgium
Especially in these time of recession, hostels and budget accomodation came back and bookings hit a 14% in the last months [...]
Welcome to the TripShake Traveler Series!
Starting today, we’ll start a weekly appointment with travel stories from all over the world.We already have a few in our archives, like our CMO’s recent trip to Israel, which you’ll see published later today – so stay tuned!
But most of all, we want to hear from you. Did you [...]
Our friends at Dopplr released their much-awaited Annual Report from 2008. We aren’t sure if we updated our whole trip history, but, here they are:
Giorgio
Antonio
It’s far below our average – Giorgio has been whining for 2 hours since he saw the report about the fact he hasn’t been anywhere from January to May -, but [...]
Our CMO Giorgio Montersino loves adventure, and loves the Middle East. He took the chance of a long weekend and went on a trip to Israel to take a close look to what is really happening there. He is sending frequent updates through the best service to cover news in real time: Twitter. In his [...]
The on-line edition of the Telegraph publishes this very interesting map depicting the way people travel all around the world: you can see how Europe plays the boldest role in the whole world, with hits in France, Italy and Spain. Eastern Europe is growing as a travel destination, whereas Africa still attracts fewer travelers. I [...]
Major brands get into the arena and start talkin’!
Best Western’s new blog, “You must be trippin‘”, is a great example of how a brand can make something useful and good for them at the same time. They started from a simple principles: let’s use what they know about our customers and what their problems are [...]
While planning trips, I always spend a lot of time and search of references of the places I’m going to on the internet, in travel guides, books, movies, magazine and alike. I am a personal fan of Rough Guides, while Giorgio is a Lonely Planet user: whichever is your flavor, a travel guide still is [...]