These days, if somebody is in a strange city and looking for a place to eat, he may pull out his smart phone and call up an application like the one for Yelp to track down a specific cuisine. If somebody is lost, one can use an application from Mapquest or Google to locate where they need to be. General travel apps for finding restaurants and hotels prove popular, but if you manage the tourism for a specific destination you may wish to consider having an app developed to better showcase your region to visitors.
What started out as a small networking site for Harvard University students and later grew to the object of obsession of every college student in the country is now a primary source of communication for more than 300 million users. Facebook has had many changes since its dorm-room beginnings in 2004, but for the most [...]
I love football.
When I was a baby, my mom made me wear an Auburn University cheerleader outfit. At age 5, I could throw and catch a football with all the boys on the playground. In middle school, I knew every team in the SEC and which teams I hated most. After high school, I went [...]
An innkeeper at a popular Gainesville Bed and Breakfast recently confided how frequently he monitors the guest reviews on travel websites like TripAdvisor and Travelocity, despite the heart-pounding worry of finding a less than stellar evaluation of his business. Sites like these, which fall into a growing demographic of social networks catering to the travel [...]
VIRGINIA BEACH — CINIVA Systems, a leading Web design and development firm for the Hampton Roads area, has been invited to attend the invitation-only ThinkTravel ’09 event, sponsored by search engine giant Google.com, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. The one-day ThinkTravel ’09 seminar features sessions on topics of importance to the billion-dollar travel [...]
