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Is Space Tourism an Unnecessary Splurge?

Mindful Marketing

With already over 600 tickets sold to individuals that reportedly include Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio, Virgin Galactic appears to be leading the space tourism race. Swiss bank UBS has estimated that space tourism could be a $3 billion industry by 2029. Maybe space tourism is doing and can do more earthly-good than many realize.

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#MeasurePR Memory (August 2018): Travel and Tourism Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

The sky’s the limit when it comes to creativity in the travel and tourism industry! Back in August 2018, we had three incredible industry guests, who shared how they uniquely measure PR and marketing. Measuring impact. What changes have you seen in the PR travel & tourism industry, and its measurement?

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Lockdown letter: brainstorming second order COVID-19 effects

Stephen Waddington

End of the nine to five week - flexible working schedules will help address physical spacing and act as a counter measure to overcrowded commutes. Celebration of Britain - with international travel limited there’s likely to be a rapid resurgence in British art, culture and tourism. The latter is a huge opportunity.

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Wuhan coronavirus: Trends and considerations for communicating during public health threats

Shift Communications

As the World Health Organization just declared the virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the high-profile speculation and coverage of the virus’ evolution bring back memories of past major global health issues like the SARS outbreak in 2003 and H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009.

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Bad PR Measurement Gets a Smackdown

Waxing UnLyrical

for the last few days, speaking on measurement at the 2011 Oregon Governor's Conference on Tourism. when I'd be speaking on measurement. So I asked my good friend and measurement guru Sean Williams to guest-moderate the chat. 55 minutes of near universal agreement that there’s too much crappy measurement out there , and.

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PR Is As PR Does

Waxing UnLyrical

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

A word of caution, though; if your business’ internal systems and/or processes are broken, there’s no amount of social media activity that can fix that, as Jen Zingsheim and Mark Story point out on last week’s Media Bullseye Radio Roundtable. (It’s Social media is a great way to start doing this. pts Settings.