The Travel PR blog – The author Neil Maclean has over 17 years experience as The Sunday Times travel writer and now runs his own consultancy advising travel businesses on their new media communications. The site is powered by Wordpress and has a crisp design, and along with the often amusing posts and reflections on the industry it makes for enjoyable reading.

Travel Stuff – Not clear who authors this blog it specialises in ecommerce with a focus on the travel industry. Posts are made fairly regularly and are usually links to recent news or articles, with a short comment.

The BOOT – The Business of Online Travel – Near daily posts by Tim Hughes, an experienced former travel executive comments on the online travel business. Agree with his recent post regarding the missed opportunity for Lonely Planet to have become a leading travel community site.

Continuing on from my previous post, more links to blogs covering marketing, online and offline in the travel & tourism sectors.

Hotel Blog – Frequently updated blog by Guillaume Thevenot covering online marketing for hotels and all things travel. Started in January 2006, his postings are supplemented with plenty of images/rich media and display a great passion for the subject. He’s currently running a series of posts covering 20 travel and hospitality blogs, each including a short Q and A with the blog authors themselves. Plenty of coverage and thoughts about online and offline advertising examples.

I’ll keep this first post brief and the initial aims for the blog quite open. I plan to use it as a place to post observations, analysis and links about design and digital marketing in the travel and tourism industry. I expect the nature of the posts to be a real mix, given the size of the sector itself. According to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport approximately 127,000 businesses in the United Kingdom are involved in the tourism industry.

Here are a couple of website links that discuss online marketing in travel and tourism.

The Travolution Blog – A regularly updated blog to supplement the bi-monthly publication, Travolution. Obviously concentrating on the travel sector, with a recent concentration of posts regards airline carriers and holiday operators the lion share of the posts are by Kevin May, the magazine’s editor (The blog posts when an online version of their magazine is available to view – the October edition is now available).

The RADAR Blog – Updated by a French blogger in Quebec to discuss internet strategy for tourism businesses. Started earlier in 2006 Mathieu provides insights and tips for those wishing to promote their tourism business online. Enjoyed his post about the changing role of sales people.

Please send on any other links that you may have.