travel

As the Summer holidays draw to a close and mind turn to work, many people entertain the idea of working in some of the fabulous places they’ve visited on their travels.

Can you have it all? A beautiful landscape, a rural idyll and a cutting edge role in digital marketing?

Experience the international side of Social Media Week. Enter the SMW Travel Award Programme for grants to see SMW overseas.

The global team are looking for one participant, one speaker and one event partner to send to one of our spectacular SMW Host cities. Fancy bopping over to Berlin, living it up in London or moving and shaking in Mumbai? Well now you can with SMW's help.

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Woah there. Run that past me again? Yup, you read it right. Travel and listings publisher, Time Out, announced a staggering 6,000% increase in the number of downloads of their travel apps after going free.

"In June, Time Out has made the decision to make all travel apps free for the foreseeable future – a move which saw the average weekly download per app jump from 140 downloads a week to over 8000, a rise of a staggering 6000%"

Watching the crowds at Heathrow and St Pancras waiting for planes and trains respectively got me thinking about the way brands communicate when there’s something wrong. In each case, the news was filled with disgruntled passengers bad mouthing their chosen travel companies, frequently because of the lack of information that they had been given.