Blog homeI have been running this blog for a couple of years now but I first started industry blogging in 2003 with a short lived blog called Travel Website Builder.
Over this time on this blog I have published 424 posts (and you have contributed 1733 comments – thank you).
But it is time to move on. I am now going to be writing and other things over at Tnooz.
You can access all my posts from this node: http://www.tnooz.com/author/abainbridge/
You can subscribe to just my posts via RSS: http://feeds.tnooz.com/tnoozabainbridge
Alongside Tnooz I am going to spend more time building up Small Fish Big Ocean – our travel ecommerce forums for small tour operators and niche travel agents. Maybe will launch a blog over there – unsure – because my main concern is that I am spreading myself a little thin [Remember I am not a journalist but running a business too!]
I am also working on a couple of travel ecommerce ebooks and remain active on Twitter @alexbainbridge !
For the moment I will keep this blog’s RSS active until all has settled down.
Possibly I may move existing RSS subscribers over to my Tnooz RSS feed via a bit of RSS magic but if you don’t want to miss the good stuff in the meantime please add the Tnooz RSS feed.
Or if I don’t get on with the concept of having an editor maybe I will be back here in a shot! 
Yeah, I have always been a little independent!
What have I learnt?
I have learnt so much about social media from blogging. I have a long list of topics that I could bore everyone with one final time about my blogging strategy and approach. But maybe I will leave that for another time!
One thing I have learnt that is worth sharing….
I started blogging because the small tour operator / activity sector were not getting any mainstream coverage in the travel industry press. There was nowhere to pitch stories about our platform, TourCMS, and nowhere to advertise. I thought, hey, lets start a blog and I can mention it every so often. That will work.
Reality is that actually its ethically frowned upon to pimp your own stuff all the time – so I have only done so on very very rare occasions. Turns out that actually blogging makes the situation worse – other travel industry journalists who may have covered TourCMS actually haven’t – purely because I haven’t pitched stories at them as I know them personally and if they covered the stories readers may consider it has been covered for all the wrong reasons.
Anyways, hope to catch you all over on Tnooz where I won’t be mentioning TourCMS either (proving I learn from my mistakes!)
Thank you
Alex
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On behalf of the Tnooz co-founding team, we are extremely pleased you have become one our global nodes.
We feel the B2B travel media sector is at a crossroads as it attempts to discover its role and process.
Tnooz hopes to spearhead a period of innovation in the media and a return to providing valuable and unique content – having you and our other nodes onboard is an intrinsic part of that strategy.
Cheers!
Thanks Kevin
Will take me a while to work out what on earth you mean a this is full of corporate speak!
Alex
Good luck with Tnooz Alex. It’s been an excellent blog and will be missed, but I hope Tnooz works out well for you.
Good luck being a node Alex, don’t tone down the opinions.
Good luck Alex – many thanks for all the useful, interesting and thought provoking blogs. I found about TourCMS through this blog (not through a mention either – I was interested so I investigated further) and recommended people to talk to you guys on two seperate occasions. Not sure if they went ahead or not, but still…. I only did so as I enjoyed the blog. We’re happy with our system or I would have contacted you about that too!
Good luck Alex! Looking forward to all your great travel chat at Tnooz!
Best of luck Alex, and to team Tnooz, looking forward to more of the engaging discussions that we’ve enjoyed here
Good luck Alex!
Best of luck over at Tnooz!