Posted on August 28, 2009 by swedentourism
Sweden is becoming more and more unknown among foreigners, accordning to a recently published report by The Swedish Institute. “The reason for this is that the choice of countries being investigated changed compared to previous years” says Olle Wästberg, SI Director-General. “The other reason is that the competition has become tougher as a result of globalization.” [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2009 by swedentourism
Recession times are investment times, an old friend said to me a while ago. It seems to be true, at least within tourism. Huge amounts are invested in tourism these days and there´s more to come.
As an industry, tourism is different from other markets. Tourism requires more cooperation between
suppliers to put together packages to a total [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by swedentourism
Every now and then I´m surprised how the blog stats suddenly goes up dramatically. I´d like to think it´s because I´ve written about something interesting, but it´s also nice with a helping hand. Thanks to the Blogburst network I´m happy to announce that the posting on “Know your clients – social tourism marketing” recently was [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by swedentourism
How about having all the best travel related top stories continously updated and easily accessible wherever you are? Now you can. The site Alltop.com is a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet, containing high-quality information with unusual breaking news, stories, and rumors from sites you´re already visiting as well as reviewed and evaluated niche-sites covering [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008 by swedentourism
Todays tough business climate makes it even more important to be able to sell. Most industrys have seen an increase in competition, where the globalization has affected companies of all sizes and tourism is no exception. Thousands of articles has been written about how to “behave” for being successful in selling. Not this one.
From my [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by swedentourism
The Swedish tourism industry is highly fragmented, mostly consisting of small entrepreneurial-style businesses you don´t find in the national tourism-promoting websites, directories or trade fairs. There are only a few incoming agencies and destination management companies – who naturally focuses on international wellknown attractions like, for example, Stockholm and its archipelago, Gotland Island & the [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by swedentourism
