Uber’s Surge Pricing Needs Work This past weekend, there was a mild snowstorm in NYC. As it happened to be on a Saturday night during the festive holiday season, demand for transportation was extra high, and on-demand ride services like Uber jacked their prices up by as much as 7x. Users were outraged, the media…
Product eLearning has experienced huge growth in the travel and tourism sector in the last few years. In the UK alone there are over 300 free training courses available to travel agents. Organisations such as SeaWorld, Avis and British Airways have used eLearning as an advertising medium with transparent results and measurable ROI. However, eLearning didn’t just come out of the blue; we created it as a way to solve some problems specific to our problems in training within the travel industry.
Online travel site Expedia.au has partnered with 5 agencies to produce Australia’s largest gamification project called Tag Me if You Can. The project is an international scavenger hunt that invites players to follow Australian reality-TV star Nathan Joliffe‘s secret location through a series of videos and clues. If players are able to tag Joliffe’s location on a map…
Today in our Gamification Company Database we have three unique gamified applications to share with you today: TravelSmart Tracker – is a gamified experience focused around creating your own personalized travel infographic to show the health impacts of your traveling. Changers – is a solar company that sells a solar panel bundled with a device to monitor…
I’ve done a lot of traveling. Although I am often a picture-taking tourist hopping from one site to the next in rapid succession, one of my favorite things to do is hear the stories and learn about the local rhythms of wherever I am. There is no substitute for immersion, but it usually takes more than the one…
