Snow in Barcelona

Snow in Barcelona; yes your read it well. Barcelona weather in March turned crazy. It brought Catalonia to a standstill as trains and flights were canceled last week. There were people complaining and others enjoying the snow as snow fall is really rare in Barcelona. We saw traditional snow battle games, people building snowmen and eventually young people improvising a cession of Street Curling in the streets of Barcelona! That one was amazing! Check the video out!

Semana Santa 2010

Spain arguably hold the most elaborate processions for Semana Santa (literally Holy Week) anywhere in the world. One lives the procesion of Semana Santa in Seville and Málaga with a lot of intensity. Semana Santa in Seville is for its tradition and splendor a great interest of International Tourism. For this reason cities where the best processions take place are packed weeks if not months in advance. Hotelius.com (the spanish hotel specialist launched in 2003) has selected the best places throughout Spain and the cheapest hotels for Semana Semana 2010. There is still time to book your hotel for holy week and this website has the lowest rates. Happy holy week!

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Projects 2.0

A few months ago I launched among other initiatives, like this and this, something so simple as a discussion group called Turismo 2.0, so cheap as a Google Group, and asked some fellow bloggers like Alberto Galloso, Andreu Llabrés, Edu William, Isaac Vidal, Javier García Cuenca, Jimmy Pons, Joan Gou, Jorge Gobbi, José A.García, Juan J. Sobejano, Juan Llantada, Nando Llorella, Ruymán García to become part of the group, becoming administrators and promoting the discussion from their blogs as well as by posting content.

We understand that not everybody reads blogs, but everybody has email. Our surprise was that after three months, the number of members of the group is around 400 subscribers, and increasing by 10 new members everyday. Discussions are way more interesting than the ones that take placeat the blogs, as travel proffesionals create their own subjects and discussions. My experience is that since Turismo 2.0 was launched, my blog got even more traffic, but the real point is that we, all together have now more readers, and a greater reach of the content.

Web 2.0 and Travel 2.0

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What's Travel 2.0 ? First we should understand what is Web 2.0

Blog on travel: Decrypting the online travel industry

A few days ago Blog on Travel was launched. It is a multi author blog about the online travel industry. It is focused on Online Travel Agencies and Hotels. It is oriented on new technologies like Search Engine Optimization, AJAX and such. Blog on travel: Online travel industry decrypted

RSS Marketing for Hotels

I've been reading many Blogs about RSS Marketing and just realized about the oportunities for hotels that RSS feeds may provide. However nobody but Clearstays.com is currently doing something with real proven success. They offer their services to the hotels with different options:

• A basic service where a hotel registers for free and post its promotions directly at Clearstays.
• Premium Services are based on Private Label Blogs and RSS feeds for hotels, that actually have some expertise in RSS Marketing, and Clearstays includes the hotel's promotions among the others posted at their site.

I consider it very smart and effective, in fact the already got 9 million page views a day.

HOTUSA Hotels Positions Itself As The Second Hotel Consortium in Europe And The Sixth At World Level

With over 1,755 associated establishments and some 149,000 rooms, the leading Spanish independent hotels chain is currently the European leader and 5th at world level HOTUSA HOTELS consolidate its position as leader in the European independent hotel sector following the publication of the ranking, which is drawn up every year by the prestigious American journal, HOTELS MAGAZINE. Consequently, according to the information released (relating to the 2004 financial year), the Spanish chain, with 1,439 associates and an offer of over 118,000 rooms, would be in first position in terms of Spain, followed by Keytel, and would occupy second position in Europe and sixth in the world. Read more