DECEMBER 10, 2012|TRAVEL & TOURISM
2013 Trends - Friend-Sourced Travel
What's the Trend?
New and old friends change the travel experience by curating where to go, and offering more local authentic experiences. Your friends are the new travel agent and tour guides, as a host of new services online and offline enable any traveler to get recommendations for unique experiences from friends. Beyond recommendations, this is also enabling far more authentic travel experiences as people stay on couches, dine with locals and take tours given by city residents.Who should care?
Anyone working in the travel and hospitality industry as well as tourism professionals will be affected by this trend and the behaviour shifts it will be causing should pay attention to this trend and the group of new sites online that are working to capitalize on it.Get the Full Report of 15 Trends To Watch In 2013 >>
This trend was featured in my full "15 Marketing Trends In 2013 That Will Change Your Business" report. To see the full report for free online and learn about the ebook action guide for tips on using this trend in your own marketing strategy, visit www.rohitbhargava.com/15trends.Book Rohit To Speak
Want to bring these ideas to your next event?
Rohit turns the thinking behind posts like this one into keynotes for audiences around the world, from Fortune 500 leadership teams to global industry conferences.
Learn More About Speaking
How It All Started
A Short Backstory Of This Blog
This is a blog about non-obvious ideas. Originally launched on the Typepad platform in 2005 as the Influential Marketing blog, the stories at first focused mainly on digital marketing while Rohit worked at Ogilvy Advertising. In 2015 Rohit officially rebranded to the Non-Obvious Insights Blog and published his WSJ bestseller Non-Obvious. For the past twenty one years, this blog has coined new terms, introduced future marketing practices and inspired the next generation of non-obvious thinkers and marketers.
