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4 Steps to Create the Ultimate Promotion Plan For Your Eco-Tourism Company

Comments: 0July 31st, 2010 by

Creating a result-driven promotion plan for your luxury eco-tourism hotel, lodge, accommodation, or touring company can be highly effective if you have the right mindset and proper strategies to gain exposure and attract more visitors.

Before you can create an online promotion plan for your high-end eco-tourism company, it’s important to ask yourself the following fundamental questions:

1. What are my goals for the future of my luxury eco-tourism company?
2. What do I want to achieve through my online promotion efforts?
3. What do I want people to know or perceive about my brand?
4. What action do I want people to take as a result of my efforts?

Once you have a clear understanding of what you want your online promotion efforts to accomplish, it’s time to create a strategic plan. Some people find planning dull, overwhelming, or downright boring. I can assure you, the more you plan, the more you are clear about what you want and where you want to go, the easier your efforts will be, and you’ll achieve the results you want more easily and quickly.
Here are 4 steps to creating a promotion plan that delivers results for your eco-tourism company:
Step I: First, you have to know what you want to achieve. You must define success. If you have a strategic objective, use that as a guide. In addition, I suggest you sit down and interview yourself.

Some of these questions might include…  Read more...

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Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)

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Bharatbook.com is glad to announce a new report titled “Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)”.

The report, “Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)”, provides an insight into the Asian medical tourism market. The past, present and future potential of the five biggest Asian markets – India, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines – have been analyzed, and both statistics and trends regarding market size, tourist arrivals, infrastructure, accreditations, cost and success and risk factors have been thoroughly discussed in the report.

Asia represents the most potential medical tourism market in the world. In 2007, the region generated revenues worth US$ 3.4 Billion, accounting for nearly 12.7% of the global market. The report draw the fact that the ageing population, particularly in the developed world, is increasing rapidly, putting an extra demand on an already overburdened health infrastructure, thus creating huge opportunities in the Asian medical tourism market.

The report also acknowledges the fact that the five Asian markets covered have vast differences in terms of cost, infrastructure, human resources, patient perceptions, competencies and level of government support. Thus, it provides valuable information to clients looking to venture into these markets and helps them to devise strategies while going for an investment/partnership in these markets.

For the purpose of this report, the Asian medical tourism market has been defined as the aggregate of medical tourism markets in Thailand, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Philippines.

For further information kindly visit: http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=76596  Read more...

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6 RSS Steps to Syndicate Your Feed

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RSS or Really Simple Syndication is used to distribute news and content to websites and visitors. RSS Feeds are available in a light weight xml format and can be generated for a blog or a static website. RSS Feeds are chiefly used to syndicate content such as announcements, new articles, news updates, videos and job openings.

If you ever visit a popular blog, notice the variety of feed readers placed in strategic position to capture your attention. Their main aim is to encourage you to subscribe to the feed. When you click on the feed link, you are transported to a web page containing information to sign up for the feed.

Syndicate your website content to ensure that the latest information is always easily accessible to your visitors.

6 Simple Steps to Syndicate Your RSS Feed:

1. Apply Feed Reader Syndication. Some notable feed readers are Google Reader and MyYahoo!. All you have to do is, add a subscribe button on your blog and personalize it for the common types of readers available.

2. Include an Email Subscription Box. This is one of the quickest ways to get all the updates and latest information. Feedburner and Feedblitz provide email subscription capabilities and metrics. Visitors can simply enter their email address in the input box and subscribe to your blog’s RSS Feed. All the latest news and articles will be directed to the specified email.  Read more...

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Little-Known Missouri Catfish Fishing Spots and Techniques

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When fishing the waters of Missouri, catfish fishing will produce any number of the three largest freshwater catfish in the country – blues, channels, and flatheads. You’ll find them in all sizes and in several different locations in the state.


Unfortunately, because of a number of environmental concerns (start with soil erosion and add pollution, gravel mining, and reservoir construction) have affected the bullhead catfish population, so while you can find a few bullheads large enough to consider in some of the prairie streams, you should not overly concern yourself with this species in this state.


However, Missouri catfish fishing can be found in almost any area of the state, especially if you are searching for small channel cats. In fact, most people who desire a quite catfishing excursion don’t even have to leave town to find a good catch. Light tackle angling is extremely popular because there are a lot of urban lakes that are stocked with channel catfish that are sizeable enough for harvest several times a year.


Most individuals living in the state are within a bus trip, bike ride, or even walk of a great Missouri catfish fishing locale. Ponds provide some of the best locations to catch small channel cats, with several impoundments provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation, including Binder Lake (Jefferson County), Crane Lake (Iron County), Blue Springs Lake (near Kansas City), and many more.  Read more...

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Opportunities in Malaysian Tourism Industry (2007-2009)

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Bharatbook.com is glad to announce a new report titled “Opportunities in Malaysian Tourism Industry (2007-2009)”.

The Malaysian tourism industry continues to grow rapidly, thanks to increasing promotional activities, growing MICE industry and rising level of personal disposable income that are fuelling growth into the country’s tourism industry. Also, being a preferred medical tourism destination and politically stable, the country has become a more profitable tourism industry.

The report provides an in-depth analysis of the present and future prospects of the Malaysian tourism industry. It focuses on different tourism parameters, like inbound & outbound tourism, expenditure by inbound & outbound tourists, accommodation & transportation facilities and medical tourism. The report will help clients to evaluate the opportunities and factors critical to the success of tourism industry in Malaysia.

Key Findings

Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia are important sources of visitors for Malaysia. Beyond ASEAN, tourist arrivals from China and India will remain an important influence throughout the forecast period (2008-2012) as the majority of Chinese tend to weigh their spending towards consumer purchases as opposed to luxury hotel accommodation.

The promotion of Education Tourism will continue to be expanded to expedite the development of Malaysia as a preferred destination for international students. The projected foreign exchange earnings from this potential source of growth are estimated at RM 900 Million by 2010.

It is expected that expenditure by international tourists in Malaysia will increase at a CAGR of 6.63% during the forecasted period.  Read more...

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Agartala Travel Guide

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Agartala is the capital of the state of Tripura. It lies on the Haora River and is located 2 km from Bangladesh. It has several temples and palaces. The population of Agartala was 189,327 in 2001. The Capital Agartala was founded in AD 1838 by Maharaja Krishna kishore Manikya(1830-1849).

The Agartala Municipality was instituted in 1871 during the reign of Maharaja Chandra Manikya(1862-1896). The First British Political Agent, Mr. A.W.B. Power appointed for hill Tipprah in 1871, was offered the honour of being the Chairman of the Agartala Municipality. Agartala city consists of many Paras, which means “locality” in Bengali. Each neighbourhood or para is usually a municipal ward or division also.

The major areas of the city are Krishnanagar, Banamalipur, Dhaleshwar, Shibnagar, Ramnagar, Joynagar, Abhoynagar, Radhanagar, Arundhutinagar, Gol Bazaar and Gurkha Basti. Kunjaban, which is an independent town is also part of the Agartala urban area. These areas are further subdivided into residential blocks, such as Banamalipur is divided into North Banamalipur, Madhya Banamlipur, South Banamalipur, etc.

PLACE TO VISIT

College Tilla – Maharaja Bir Bikram College, Tripura University buildings, football ground, international cricket stadium, picturesque lush landscapes & serene natural lakes.

Ujjayanta Palace – Palace of the Tripura kings, now converted to state legislative assembly.

Jagannath temple – Hindu temple of Vaishnava school of thought.

Umamaheswar temple – Hindu temple of Shaiva & Shakta schools of thought.

HOW TO REACH  Read more...

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