News and Events

We attended CIMTIG's inaugural Travel Vision event yesterday with speakers from the British Travel Awards (who survey 15,000 consumers each year) and GfK Ascent (official collators of travel industry stats collating more than 19 million consumer choices).

Debbie Hindle and I will be at ITB this year. We'll be blogging and tweeting (@bgbcomms) from the show so watch this space for news and views.

Travel trade media don't offer sufficient opinions and analysis of key issues according to a debate which has been running on the Travelrants website run by blogger Darren Cronian.

Jo Johnson our Deputy MD spoke to high end hoteliers and restaurateurs in Scotland this week at Silver Spoon, an event in Edinburgh organised by Scotland on Sunday journalist Richard Bath.

It's mind blowing. According to statistics collected by the online gods at econsultancy ((http://tinyurl.com/yetgcru)) there are now 350 million active users on Facebook globally. That's a 40% increase compared to the 250 million who were merrily chatting away just six months ago