Written by:
Maïthé Levasseur on
26 January 2010 [44 views]
Tags:
DMO,
hotels,
Internet-reservations,
Marketing,
virtual-communities,
web-2.0The Québec Tourism Intelligence Network is pleased to present some highly relevant thoughts about online marketing of hotels, written by special collaborator M. Starkov, consultant in Hospitality eBusiness Strategies.
Throughout our nearly 15 years of hotel Internet marketing experience, we have been consistently concerned about the increasing level of disparity between savvy Internet/Mobile marketers in hospitality [...]
Categorized as: Accommodation, Marketing, etourism and technology
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
9 December 2009 [136 views]
Tags:
environment,
natural-landscape,
region,
Sustainable tourismLike many places, Québec has also created a policy framework to increase energy production from renewable sources such as wind.(1) Wind farm construction presents numerous challenges, but from a tourism viewpoint, it has a direct visual impact on scenic landscapes and an indirect effect on industry due to potential economic losses. Opponents to wind farms [...]
Categorized as: Products and activities, Sustainable tourism
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
6 November 2009 [179 views]
Tags:
adventure,
eco-tourism,
Quebec,
region,
Sustainable tourism,
wildlife-observationWhale watching is still the fastest growing sector of general wildlife tourism worldwide and this is important for Québec, since marine tourism is a lucrative activity. According to a recent report, 13 million people went whale watching in 119 countries in 2008, compared to 9 million in 87 countries in 1998.(1) In the past 10 [...]
Categorized as: Products and activities, Trends
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
12 June 2009 [63 views]
Tags:
air-canada,
convention,
environment,
events,
Greenhouse-effect,
hotels,
Sustainable tourism,
train,
transat,
TransportationVisitors to and from Québec contribute to Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG), regardless of the mode of transport, distance traveled, or the activity undertaken during a stay. To date, no study assessed neither travelers’ nor the tourism sector’s contributions to GHG emissions, or attitudes or actions towards mitigation in Québec. This creates a knowledge gap about [...]
Categorized as: Issues, Sustainable tourism
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Written by:
Michael Nowlis on
9 June 2009 [787 views]
Tags:
airlines,
crisis,
cruises,
economy,
hotels,
United-StatesStormy Skies on the Horizon
The global economy has fallen off a cliff and no one is sure when it will hit bottom. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world’s advanced economies experienced an unprecedented 7.5% decline in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the fourth quarter of 2008. The IMF projects a similar [...]
Categorized as: Around the world, Issues
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
14 May 2009 [974 views]
Tags:
classifications,
eco-tourism,
environment,
governance,
Greenhouse-effect,
hotels,
Quebec,
tourism developmentThe need to develop tourism based on sustainability principles is a part of a general tourism policy framework since 2005 in Québec(1) and most tourism sub-sectors also have set broad objectives based on this basis, including the Ski-doo Federation (2). Although sustainability is well accepted across Québec’s tourism sector, in practice it is not a [...]
Categorized as: Around the world, Sustainable tourism
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
24 October 2008 [960 views]
The number of certified green hotels continues to grow, but the eco-efficiency measures implemented vary widely among establishments. For many hotels, a sustainability strategy includes working towards carbon neutrality, community involvement, supporting conservation initiatives and participating in a range of certification programs. However, not all hotels are green, and often even basic measures have not [...]
Categorized as: Accommodation
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
10 September 2008 [1,086 views]
Water has become one of the scarcest resources as its consumption has increased sixfold in the last century. At the present time, over 40% of the world’s population lives in water poverty (1-4). In Québec, water quality and resource ownership are of greater concern than water availability since many lakes have suffered from algal outbreaks [...]
Categorized as: Accommodation
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Written by:
Julianna Priskin on
21 April 2008 [1,668 views]
Improvements of environmental performance by the accommodation sector are not measured systematically and this makes it hard to estimate the extent of real change. In Canada it is certainly not uniform according to adherence to the programs detailed in Table 1. Although some hotels continue greening their performance, the sector is only at the beginning [...]
Categorized as: Accommodation
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Written by:
Rachel Dodds on
4 April 2008 [2,693 views]
Tags:
Around the world,
Greenhouse-effect,
hotels,
Issues,
purchase-behavior,
responsible-travel,
Sustainable tourism,
travel-behaviorRachel Dodds, Director, Sustaining Tourism, & Assistant Professor, Ryerson University and Marion Joppe, President, Tourism Environment, & University Research Chair in Tourism, University of Guelph are assessing the demand for sustainable tourism in this article.
Although there is no question that tourism needs to be sustainable, the actual demand for sustainable tourism is difficult to assess [...]
Categorized as: Sustainable tourism
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