Happy Hotelier

Cleaning up and publishing old stuff:

Real Travel is another community generated travel guide I discovered some time ago on the Internet. I checked out their part of The Netherlands to see that they have the usual disadvantage: Only a bit info about Amsterdam. Nothing else. I fear that they will not be able to compete […]

Found Happy Hotelier among Joe’s Blog list. Wow!
Blogistan @ JoeSentMe.com
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE TO FIND TRAVEL BLOGS
We’ve come a long way from the Rosetta Stone to the Internet blog. Whether blogs help us decipher the intricacies of travel, however, is an open question. Blogs are the ultimate expression of free speech for everyone. But […]

When, after a long flight, you are awaiting a bit groggily at the airport luggage check out for your luggage to appear, it can happen that your suitcase travels three times the carousel without you noticing it. At least that has happened to me. That won’t happen anymore when you apply the “Pop Top personalize […]

He looks a bit tired, but here is Rattan Chadha, the founder of CitizenM and former owner of the Mexx fashion company who opened the press conference.
Some quotes as a starter:

They started 4 years ago.
Rattan traveled more in his prior life than many in the audience of the well attended press conference will ever do […]

My High Five no 2 are for:

11 Bizarre Hotels That Will Knock Your Socks Off, most of them featured at my Unusual Hotels page or on the site Unusual Hotels of the World One minus in the post: I know that “Amsterdam” always draws visitore to your post, but this time the Dock Crane hotel […]

Wat’s new to Daamsie, is new to me as well: The Travel Subgroup at Reddit

After three conferences with dedicated sites, the initiators of Tips from the T-List decided to start a more permanent site.
The site and its lay out need urgent attention imo!

My main complaint is that the RSS feeds don’t work as they should: During a certain period of time they produced duplicate content. That has been taken […]

I have to get this post off my chest, be it for mere reference for myself, but also as preparation for the tagging of the many photos I took and uploaded already.
Here are the travel bloggers that were listed for the Berlin ITB Bloggers summit:

Ram Badrinathan • PHOCUSWRIGHT • (India)
Ram commented that only recently he […]

In an initiative to unite the power of bloggers around the world BlogCatalog has launched BlogCatalog - Blogging For Hope, an initiative to pay attention to human rights worldwide.
I second the initiative and would like to address three items myself:

I would like all Authorities to reconsider their post 9/11 madness with fingerprinting everyone and everybody […]

I am glad I don’t have to fly a lot and certainly not in an airplane bathroom, but the USA is world famous for its frivolous litigating and this is just another example in my opinion:
According to Associated Press, via MSNBC, a New York citizen is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million […]

Travel Blog author Darren Cronian has won the Travolution Award for best consumer travel blog with his Blog Travel Rants.
He was chosen from the following shortlist:

Travel Rants (Darren Cronian)
TravelMail Blog (various authors)
Viator Blog (various authors)
Select World Travel (Lee Harrison)

I believe winning from these great blogs will add extra to this award for Darren.
The Laudatio says:
“Darren […]

The opening Screen

Some time ago I came across Piclens from the company Cool Iris via a recommendation from Internet Guru Doc Searls. Doc has no search function on his Blog. A severe neglect! At first I couldn’t find his post back.
As an aside: He also recommended Flickrfan in a post Less T, More V […]

Thank You, Claude

After my previous post there was some more discussion on Twittter and in the meantime an unrelated Twitterer, The Carol of the Chines language Blog 太妃糖憂鬱狂歡節│Carol's Carnival mentioned the the possibility of Group Twittering via Group Tweet. That ticked us off.
In the meantime Elliot NG of the Uptake blog posted about the Travel […]

Until they launched their Ginger version I wasn’t much impressed by Netvibes. I like their new Ginger public page idea and the possibility to group feeds on one page. A bit unfortunate is that I see no possibility to make screen shots of public pages on Netvibes.
Following a Twitter conversation with Elliot NG of Uptake, […]

As a matter of fact I was experimenting with Netvibes and its Ginger version already. Just before noting Travel.Alltop I had made a public page on Netvibes by the name of Happy Hotelier’s Travel Readings, which was inspired by the way Edu Williams had formed his public Turismo (En) page.
Look for yourself if this is […]