New Venture – Tourism Marketing Consulting

Tomorrow is a coming out party for Tourism Marketing Consulting which is a project that Jen Leo and I have been working on for a few months. We are kicking off this joint venture with a free webinar called “Social Media 101“.

Jen and I met at the speaker’s dinner last year at the Travel Blog Exchange conference in Chicago. We hit it off immediately and soon after Gary Arndt and I asked her to join us starting the This Week in Travel podcast. Jen confessed recently that she thought she was being asked to be on one episode and did not realize that she was being asked to be a regular host. That is probably just as well as she might have said “no” as her job as the lead travel blogger with the LA Times was keeping her pretty busy.

Jen has much more experience in travel than I do and seems to know all the other travel editors and travel writers. I have a bit more social media experience since I was building internet communities full time starting in 1996. She is a blogger and I am a podcaster. I am afraid to ask, but since she lives in southern California she might even be a Dodgers fan. Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful partnership. I hope you can join us tomorrow.