Airbnb Targets 10,000 Listings in Ski Resorts
The London Ski Show has generally seen fewer destinations and tour operators exhibiting in recent years, but one notable new arrival in 2014 was Airbnb – ‘travel’s most fascinating company’. Over 1 million listings worldwide The company was founded in the summer of 2008 and is now valued at around $10 billion – with...
What were the Top 10 Posts on Skipedia in 2014?
During 2014, we published 60 posts on Skipedia, covering brands as diverse as Lidl and HSBC, destinations from Flaine to Denmark and tour operators from Crystal to AliKats. But which were our most read blog posts? Here’s our top ten – in reverse order – from 2014: 10. Mountain Base hit a PR goldmine We reported...
23 Takeaways from Searchmetrics SEO Ranking Factors report
Searchmetrics recently released their annual SEO Ranking Factors & Rank Correlations white paper. You can download the entire document here, but if you’re pressed for time here, here’s 23 takeaways to get you thinking… Content High quality, relevant content is increasingly the focus of search Content is no longer an addition to, but is the...
Crystal Ski Deliver On Digital Promise
Back in September we reported on Crystal Ski’s plans to take digital customer service to a new level. Impressive and ambitious, but realistic? At the time, we were impressed, but dubious about how realistic some of their plans were. Crystal revealed that all 700 overseas employees would be equipped with iPads, each featuring bespoke...
YouGov reveals Snowboarders read the Financial Times and drive Audis
You may recently have read about the YouGov Profiler – launched at the Festival of Marketing last month. It is a database tool built from surveys of almost 200,000 people and shows you the habits, likes and characteristics of anyone who might like a certain person, brand or hobby. We took a look at the...
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a ski holiday.
If there was ever a single body for promoting the snowsports industry – an idea that gets discussed at every LISTEX – we think this would make a great ad… Photo courtesy Erna Low