Online Marketing

5 ways to optimize your listing on Google Places 5 ways to optimize your listing on Google Places

In our previous post, we discussed the importance of local search for in-destination tour operators. (more…)

Online Marketing

The power of digital & social media marketing The power of digital & social media marketing

Around last Christmas, WestJet had a special surprise in store for its passengers travelling from Hamilton and Toronto to Calgary. (more…)

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Tour Operators, have you gone local yet? Tour Operators, have you gone local yet?

“Local searches” are perhaps the most important search queries that any local business (including in-destination tour operators) should compete to win. (more…)

Fun at Work

The Grill after the Grilling The Grill after the Grilling

And what a grilling year 2013 was for all of us at Vacation Labs…. With the heat right up our behinds this year, we hardly even noticed how the year flew by. Some days we worked for 48 hours straight! (and...

Online Marketing

5 tips to make the most of your TripAdvisor listing 5 tips to make the most of your TripAdvisor listing

In our previous post, we discussed the importance of TripAdvisor listing for tour and activity operators. In this one, we will talk about techniques that will help you make the most of your listing. (more…)

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Are you listed on TripAdvisor yet? Are you listed on TripAdvisor yet?

You now have your New Year’s resolution! First things first - why should a tour or an activity operator be listed on TripAdvisor? Isn’t it meant for Hotels? (more…)

Travel Website

Top 10 questions travelers ask before booking a tour Top 10 questions travelers ask before booking a tour

What are the top 10 questions travelers ask before they book a tour with you? Most of you will be able to answer this in your sleep! So we are not going to tell you something that you already know....

Fun at Work

How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer

From being yet another engineer+MBA to a kickass developer. Ashwin has truly come a long way. (more…)

Technical

AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk” AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk”

We’ve been building Single Page Apps” (SPAs) with AngularJS over the last few months and have been blown away with what it enables us to achieve. Our front-end code was a stinking pile of jQuery DOM manipulation, ad-hoc data attributes,...