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New on VTV Channel: The World Tweets, Should I?


Toronto, ON, October 26th, 2009 – VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, has launched a new video on VTV Channel featuring David Attardi, Director of E-Commerce for B.F. Saul Company’s Hotel Division. Social media is on every hotelier’s mind these days. In this episode, David shares his insights on the importance of supplementing “blocking and tackling” strategies with social activities on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and TripAdvisor.
 
Watch it now to learn:

  • Why hoteliers and marketers cannot ignore social media sites
  • How much effort hoteliers should spend on social media
  • How to inspire consumers to book your hotel
 
Tune in for Next Week’s Episode
Revenue Management vs. Marketing – What can these Functions Learn from Each Other?
Laurence Bernstein, Managing Director of The Bay Charles Consulting Company
 
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What is VTV Channel?
VTV Channel is a video blog where you will find short interviews with industry experts on the most important issues in online marketing, e-commerce, sales and distribution in the hotel industry. Each week, host John McAuliffe, Chief Marketing Officer of VFM Leonardo interviews an industry expert on a single topic related to online merchandising in order to help you extract more value from your hotel’s presence on the Internet. Go to VTV Channel »


About VFM Leonardo

VFM Leonardo is a technology leader in online visual content management and distribution systems. VFM Leonardo’s VScape® and VBrochure™ products leverage the distribution capabilities of the VNetwork™, the most universally accepted and largest online visual content distribution network for the global travel industry including all four global distribution systems (GDSs), Pegasus and travel-related channels including online travel agencies, travel research and supplier web sites, search portals and major travel intermediaries. VFM Leonardo offers the hotel industry the most effective digital asset management and online merchandising systems available today and efficiently delivers over 1,000,000 visual images (photos, virtual tours and videos) to more than 30,000 travel channels and websites in the VNetwork including Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan, Pegasus, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, Tripadvisor, Yahoo! Travel, Kayak, Google and many more for 90,000 hotels worldwide. For more information about VFM Leonardo, visit www.vfmleonardo.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/VFMLeonardo.

Contact:

VFM Leonardo Inc.
Julie Vieth
Communications Specialist
www.vfmleonardo.com
Toll free: 1-877-593-6634
Phone: 416-263-5446
Fax: 416-593-7572
[email protected]


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Also See: Fareportal, Inc. Joins VFM Leonardo’s VNetwork™; FAREPORTAL powered travel sites to source all rich media content and still images exclusively through VFM Leonardo / October 2009

New on VTV Channel: eBusiness for Hoteliers – Panacea or Pain? – The Role of Visual Content in Travel Shopping / October 2009

New on VTV Channel: Generational Marketing - Matures and Baby Boomers / October 2009

Amadeus Extends Relationship with VFM Leonardo; Amadeus to source and manage all hotel visual content using VFM Leonardo’s VScape® Digital Asset Management System / October 2009

New on VTV Channel: How to Leverage Content Online / October 2009

VFM Leonardo’s VScape® Digital Asset Management System Selected by SynXis to Manage and Distribute Hotel Visual Content for Over 10,000 Hotels; SynXis will integrate VScape within its RedX Distribution Management System for easy digital asset management and distribution / October 2009

New on VTV Channel: eBusiness for Hoteliers - How to Motivate the Content Sensitive Traveler / September 2009

VFM Leonardo Selected by White Lodging to Better Merchandise Hotels Online / September 2009

Travelport GDS and VFM Leonardo Extend their Relationship to Include Worldspan; New exclusive agreement will enable Worldspan users to access the same visual hotel content as Galileo users / September 2009

Understanding Online Travel Shoppers: How Smart Hoteliers are Engaging Today’s Travelers and Driving More Bookings / September 2009

New VTV Episode: The New Luxury – Merchandise, Don’t Sell / September 2009

Content: The Key to Hotel Bookings - Complimentary Webinar September 10th; Learn about the Five Pillars of Effective Travel eBusiness and how hotel content plays a significant role in driving bookings. / September 2009

New VTV Episode: VIDEO - Visual Content Decisions - What? How Much? Why? / September 2009

Content: The Key to Hotel Bookings? / John McAuliffe - VFM Leonardo / September 2009

New VTV Episode: How to Know Where the Fish Are / August 2009

Preferred Hotel Group Selects VFM Leonardo as Exclusive Provider of Visual Content Distribution Services; Member properties of Preferred Hotel Group’s brands to use VFM Leonardo’s VScape® and VBrochure™ products exclusively to 30,000+ electronic channels and travel websites in VNetwork™ / August 2009

StarCite Partners With VFM Leonardo to Enhance Online Meetings Marketplace With Rich Hotel Visual Content; VFM Leonardo to be Exclusive Provider of Rich Content Showcasing Hotel Properties to Corporate Buyers Within StarCite’s Online Marketplace / August 2009

VFM Leonardo Chosen as Exclusive Provider of Hotel Visual Content for Concur’s Corporate Travel Booking Solutions; Largest distributor of visual content for hotels worldwide expands relationship with Concur making their photos, virtual tours and video available to thousands of corporate customers / August 2009

New VTV Episode: Online vs. Offline Marketing / August 2009

WORLDHOTELS Selects VFM Leonardo as Exclusive Solution / August 2009

VFM Leonardo to Power Visual Content Management and Distribution for Rosewood Hotels & Resorts; Rosewood Hotels & Resorts adopts VScape® Digital Asset Management System to efficiently manage and deliver hotel visual content to online channels / August 2009

VFM Leonardo Selected to Exclusively Manage and Distribute Visual Content for La Quinta Inns & Suites; VFM Leonardo’s VScape® Digital Asset Management System adopted by limited service hotel chain to manage visual content and seamlessly distribute to electronic distribution channels. / August 2009

This Week on VFM Leonardo's VTV: "The New Luxury - Experience, Not Status" with Bonnie Knutson, Professor at the Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business / August 2009

This Week on VFM Leonardo’s VTV: Experiential Marketing - What It Is and Isn't; Educational video blog featuring weekly interviews with hotel and travel industry experts launches new episode: Experiential Marketing - What It Is and Isn't with Laurence Bernstein of the Bay Charles Consulting Company and host John McAuliffe, VFM Leonardo’s Chief Marketing Officer / August 2009

VFM Leonardo Expands VNetwork™ to Include Travel Deals & Sales Consumer Site Voyij.com; VFM Leonardo enables hoteliers to better merchandise their properties to travel shoppers on Voyij.com (recently launched by the creators of SideStep.com) by providing the site with hotel photos, virtual tours and videos / August 2009

VFM Leonardo Expands VNetwork™ to Include Gekko.com; The largest distributor of visual content for hotels worldwide expands distribution network to enable hotels to display their photos in front of more prospective guests online on unique hotel recommendation website, Gekko.com / August 2009

Pegasus Solutions and VFM Leonardo Form Strategic Partnership; Pegasus Chooses VFM Leonardo's VScape® Digital Asset Management System to Power All Visual Content for ODD and Content Hub / June 2009

Utell® Hotels & Resorts Signs Up Hundreds of New Members in 2009, Around the Globe, 471 Hotels from
65 Countries Have Selected Utell Since the Beginning of the Year / June 2009

Pegasus Solutions Teams with Rubicon to Launch New MarketVision Competitive Intelligence Reporting: Visit HITEC Booth #1054 or twitter.com/pegexec, Hotel Users Switch to MarketVision to Take Advantage of Pre-eminent Market Intelligence / June 2009
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