I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago on an announcement by Lonely Planet of plans for an offline store at Sydney Airport. I was critical of the focus, time and energy being spent on something other than online. Since that post I have had a number of emails sent to me with some recent Lonely Planet online activity. I have also been doing some reading of my in preparation for next week's eyefortravel Asia Pacific. One of the speakers for the event is Andy Conroy, Global Online Director, Lonely Planet. Here are the series of announcements that I have discovered:- Launching a channel on Youtube;
- Launching a mobile site in Australia;
- Joining up with Expedia and Hostelworld for joint accommodation sales; and
- Launching an API to provide direct connectivity to reviews and content.
UPDATE - unfortunately looks like Andy is no longer able to attend eyefortravel. Will have to save my questions for another occasion.
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Andy will not be making it to the conference next week. It's a great shame as I too was looking forward to talkign to him about these topics, but he has been called away for duty he just cannot get out of.
Tom Ellum
EyeforTravel
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