As you know, this year’s ITB and Blogger Summit took place in Berlin, and we were there! Last year we were incognito, but this year dodo.com was proudly represented with our stunning blue dodo shirts. Among all the black and navy blue suits, there was no chance of losing each other, and it was impossible to go unnoticed in the crowd.
Our main focus this year was on the blogger summit and technology exhibitors. We had several interesting conversations about the development of the community market and dodo.com itself. Among others we talked to Keven May, editor of travolution, who also writes for TravelWeekly and gazetteers.com. He is a great journalist and blogger! (Yes, you can be both.) You can see him and Claudia in the picture below.
We also talked to the Canadian travel & tourism technology consultant Stephen Joyce from rezgo.com. He is the publisher of the book Tips From the T-List, which gathers thoughts about e-tourism from many approved bloggers.
I would like to thank Claude Bernard from Les Explorers for the charming chat and, by the way, your English is great. I like the French accent a lot. We will hopefully accrue some more members from France now ;).
Apart from all the international bloggers, we also had a deep conversation about the community market with two German bloggers from tourismuszukunft.de: Florian Bauhuber and Jens Oellrich.
Apart from meeting several well-known bloggers, we also had the chance to see Angie (Mrs. Merkel, current Chancellor of Germany) and the famous and gorgeous actor George Clooney.
Alright, alright, so they are only wax figures! But still…. it was fun! Even more fun, though, was that we found the smallest playable foosball table—at least at the ITB. We love playing foosball. Well, not me in particular, but Axel, Daniel and most employees do.
The largest travel fair is coming up, and we will be there! If you see anyone with a shirt like the one in the picture below, it will be us. We certainly won’t miss THE PHOCUSWRIGHT BLOGGERS SUMMIT. You can find us at the blogger workshops this Wednesday, at the PhoCus Wright@ITB: Success in Travel E-Business on Thursday, and with any luck at the ITB as well.
If you would like to contact us at the ITB, just start up a chat with anyone you see wearing the dodo.com shirt. Or if you prefer, contact us in advance to make an appointment. You can click on the photo for a close-up!
