bd4travel wins the Brand USA Marketing Innovation Award at this years Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit

The travel industry research authority Phocuswright Inc. has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit on the Phocuswright Conference in Los Angeles, California, held from November 11th to 13th. Each year, 32 innovators are selected from 80 applicants to demonstrate ground-breaking applications and solutions that are set to change the travel industry. The winners represent the best of this elite group.

The event is presented and sponsored by Brand USA, the destination marketin

Choosing Big Data over Bad Investments: Smart data for successful tourism projects

Vienna – The intelligent linking of financial and environmental data with tourism statistics is now creating the first truly reliable basis for making tourism investment decisions. This is made possible by a recently launched EU project at MODUL University Vienna. The project combines the university’s internationally recognized expertise in the field of big data with its long standing tradition in tourism research. Specifically, the international project automatically links economic and ecologic

Ruf Strategic Solutions Earns Testimonial From Nevada Commission on Tourism for Results With Lead Generation Program

Ruf Strategic Solutions Earns Testimonial From Nevada Commission on Tourism for Results With Lead Generation Program

RENO, NV — (Marketwire) — 10/18/11 — Ruf Strategic Solutions recently earned a marketing testimonial from The Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) for their results with lead tracking and database marketing program Navigator.See our new Navigator web-only offer:David Peterson, director of research for NCOT, said he would definitely recommend Navigator to anyone who wants to track their media spending. "Any destination marketing organization — whether it be state, city, county or territ