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This is an excellent use of new media by a travel company. MyTravel.com is one of the UK's biggest online holiday retail sites and is after your help to pimp up its image.
MyTravel is inviting the general public to create their own holiday commercial. If it's good enough they'll use it in their next national online advertising campaign.
The video is hilarious - well worth a watch.
The Tour de France pushes off from central London in a few weeks. I always take an interest in the Tour, in fact it influenced my holiday choice last year - I pedalled (most of the way) from Bordeaux to Nice. This year I'm keen to recreate the two opening stages of the race, in London and south-east England. Once again it's possible to follow the precise route via a Google Earth mash-up, so no excuses for taking any short cuts.
I posted a story last year looking at what I speculated might be the next Google Earth (the story got an unbelievable 7,500 hits). This article outlines some other viewpoints, including a merger of Second Life / Google Earth type technology.
Speaking of Second Life, STA travel claims to be the first travel company to have a base there. It outlines some of the very best places to 'visit' in Second Life, including museums and even Mayan temple ruins.
I can only tell you about the next link if you give me a special handshake. That's because it's a link to the Masonic Traveller, a blog on travel just for masons. A real holy grail of travel sites. Now I'm not sure if this is strictly a travel site, or just a journey through the concept of masonry. Certainly a journey like no other, anyway...
And finally, next time you're in Burlingame, California, be sure to visit the World's Largest Pez Dispenser at the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia. It's truly enormous. Presumably it also distributes the world's largest Pez? Lumme....does anyone else know of any completely random museums?
We recently held a general meeting of members of our global agency network, Tourism Trademark, in Paris. Everything is steaming along and we are extending the network's reach and impact all the time. One initiative, an exclusive deal with NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, will see members of Tourism Trademark offer international work experience placements to students, thus completing and complementing the training of tomorrow's tourism professionals.
We are also continually extending the network's reach - we now have affiliate agencies in countries as far and wide as Argentina, Mexico, China, USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. Visit www.tourismtrademark.com for more detail.
If you speak Spanish, you might be interested to read the blog written by the head of our Spanish agency, Chris Pomeroy. Chris writes 'La Maleta Medio Vacia', which translates as 'The Half-Empty Suitcase'. It's an informative, and often lyrical, look at the travel industry.
Further to yesterday's post, in which I discussed whether airline advertising could be construed as sexist, here's a story that brings to mind one of my favourite Jimmy Carr jokes:
"Someone came up to me last week and complained about a joke, quite a big-boned girl. She said: "I think you're fattist." I said: "No, I think you're fattest"."
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