Pick Foot Tourist & Tourism Technology Awards. July2006

Tuesday 1 August 2006 by Edward.

Pink Foot Awards for my favourite postings in July.

BEFORE the visit post: 1trip3.com
DURING the visit post: Disney Mobile
AFTER the visit post: Trip Tracker
Favourite tourist tool/idea: GPS on a stick

31July2006 Tourism eBrochures complement traditional print media

30July2006 Picasa Album Update

30July2006 Malta tourism benefits from website

29July2006 USB WebCam with telescope

29July2006 RFID use in leisure and sports ranks high

28July2006 Travel writers can use USB dictionary stick

28July2006 ShowMe Cyprus

27July2006 Dial ** for Skype VoIP long distance bargains

26July2006 Google Maps Mobile for tourists

26July2006 LocalWeekender shares ‘off-the-beaten-path’ places

25July2006 Earthclimber shows rock climbing spots with Google Earth

24July2006 Automatically ‘recharge’ your RFID pass/ticket

24July2006 Waterproof shake flashlight … look, no batteries

23July2006 Gadget: rugged wrist-strapped digital camera

23July2006 GeoWeb2006 begins 26 July

22July2006 1Trip3.com and Home&Abroad use contrasting approaches to trip planning

22July2006 Alaska’s Grizzly WildCam provides a rich tourist experience

21July2006 Datastorm user group tracks RV-ers locations with MapPoint

20July2006 Melaka, Malaysia, uses Google Earth for tourists

20July2006 Gadget: Birdsong Identifier

19July2006 Indiana has easy-to-use interactive travel guide

19July2006 Gadget: GPS on a stick

18July2006 Wikipedia inspires Dutch cyclists to create own route planner

17July2006 UNWTO and Microsoft to create “Windows on Africa” portal

16July2006 Disney: Do you know where your children are?

15July2006 Fix photos, audio, drawings, and more, to a geographic point

14July2006 Survey: mobile phones are most valued high tech tool

13July2006 Visual Box Office “revolutionizes” event ticket purchases

13July2006 Trip Planner vs Trip Tracker

13July2006 Schmap freeware serves up online Destination Guides

12July2006 Nova Scotia Tourist Guide is now in PDF format

11July2006 New book: Progress in Tourism Marketing

10July2006 GeoWeb 2006 Conference, Vancouver 24-28July2006

10July2006 Belinker: see where your friends are while touring

09July2006 Schmap!!

09July2006 Scientific Tourist experience

08July2006 Are you an “experimental traveller”? Do the quiz

07July2006 Web 2.0 travel industry tools help tourism

06July2006 “Live Map” broadcasts global webcams on Google Earth

06July2006 Track Tour de France cyclists in Google Earth

05July2006 Sheraton Hotels & Resorts share guests’ stories– online — front and centre!

05July2006 Book a taxi online with Where2Guv

04July2006 Bookstore Tourism Blog

03July2006 Create a travel journal with TripTracker

02July2006 The Queen Mary installs BPL for its tourists’ internet access

01July2006 Oregon wineries partner to create a Google-based tourist Map

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