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09:15

The bed’s too big without you

In English

The 20 innovations that will change the world of hospitality, through the analysis of attentive observer Larry Mogelonsky. When will they arrive? How can we be ready?

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Keynote + Talk:
Larry Mogelnosky (LMA)
Carlo Fontana (Hoxell)
Giovanna Manzi (BestWestern)
Giancarlo Carniani

Resist/exist: restaurants vs social eating

Le ragioni degli altri. E’ un confronto tra due ragioni diverse, da una parte i portatori d’interessi collettivi degli operatori dell’universo della ristorazione [in questo caso rappresentati da Confesercenti], dall’altra parte chi rivendica il diritto a “esistere“, innovare, fare impresa e micro impresa.  Tra Sharing Economy, Shadow Economy, regole e regolamenti, buon senso e tanto.. Read more »

In Italian

Hotel Technology: from telephones to virtual reality

The online reputation of our hotel can be improved by offline strategies. To meet the expectations of the new generation of travellers – the millennials – it is essential to invest in new technologies. Together we will discover the opportunities – even low budget options – to transform our hotel into a “millennial-ready” establishment. Keynote.. Read more »

Loyalty as the primary lever for lead generation: technology&content marketing at the service of ROI

Uno dei punti su cui più spesso il marketing turistico “ha battuto la testa” è probabilmente figlio di due errori di fondo: il primo è stato quello di concentrarsi solo sul primo miglio, sul primo cliente, sulla prima prenotazione senza considerare la parola fedeltà. Il secondo è legato alla ricerca della disintermediazione di un mondo,.. Read more »

A rational handbook for the non-hotelier

Aprire un B&B, Affittacamere, Appartamento Vacanze in Italia è una scelta molto interessante, ma spesso chi si avvicina a questa realtà non ha le necessarie competenze tecniche e di marketing corrette e trova poca sponda nelle Istituzioni Locali, spesso avare di informazioni.  La scelta migliore sul da farsi, come sfruttare al meglio il proprio immobile.. Read more »

Tell the world with email marketing (and forget about anti-spam filters)

L’email è relazione, corrispondenza, un canale aperto e personale con l’utente/iscritto, utente che ci ha già scelto, ed è pronto ad ascoltarci.  Come non sprecare l’occasione e diventare rilevanti, curando e segmentando la lista dei contatti, la frequenza di invio, i contenuti, accompagnando l’utente nel suo viaggio verso l’acquisto e oltre, nei territori della fidelizzazione.. Read more »

10:10

So lonely

In Italian

Felicità, Carlin Petrini intervistato da Marcello Masi.

Il Direttore del TG2 intervista il fondatore di SlowFood, la persona posizionata dal Guardian tra le 50 che potrebbero salvare il pianeta.

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Intervista
Marcello Masi [Direttore TG2]

Guest
Carlin Petrini [Fondatore SlowFood]

    

Best Western: the value of an international brand

Positioning, visibility, business acquisition and brand loyalty: the four pillars used by Best Western to meet the new market challenges, illustrated through the brand’s activities on the global market, with concrete suggestions and real opportunities for hotels. Keynote Speaker Sara Digiesi – CMO Best Western ItaliaRead more »

Email marketing for those who don’t have time to write: Alessandra Farabegoli

Che ruolo può avere l’email marketing nel piano di comunicazione di chi, in mezzo alle mille cose da fare ogni giorno, fatica a trovare il tempo per scrivere regolarmente una newsletter?  Idee, spunti, automatismi e trucchi per mettere a frutto un asset prezioso, la nostra mailing list. Alessandra torna da noi con una Cassetta degli Attrezzi.. Read more »

Living the tale: storytelling as planning in hospitality

Storytelling can also be used to transform a destination into a setting within which clients experience fantastic stories: we will find out how to use the “journey of the hero” to redesign our product by taking into account the natural overlap between travel and stories. Keynote Speaker Mafe de Baggis – Co-founder Pleens Filippo Pretolani.. Read more »

In Italian

Jollyticket.com: Travel, Italian-style. Win Online with Instant Win!

ICT innovation, digital culture, user-centred relationship marketing: these are the values that have guided jollyticket.com in redesigning its B2C e-commerce platform dedicated to the purchase of travel experiences. Nicoletta Polliotto presents the protagonists of this technological adventure and launches the renovated, all-Italian online travel agency, confirming the success of its revolutionary instant win system. The.. Read more »

Breathe, you’re in Mugello!

When concerted communication becomes the score for a virtuoso tourism body. How a conductor – the Tourist Office of the Mugello Union of Comunes – directs the various instruments of the tourism orchestra so that they all play the same tune. An integrated communications plan is like the score which for several years has guided.. Read more »

Social Customer Service: how to win customers thru excellent service

Competition based on tariffs is increasingly fierce and customer experiences move at the speed of light thru social networks. In such a complex scenario, if you wnat to stand out you have to invest on the quality of customer service, taking advantage of social networks virality. Social Customer Service is the tool that enables you.. Read more »

10:50

Message in a Bottle

In English [with simultaneous translation]

Destinations Marketing seen through its procedures and the successful model that is BrandUSA. We discuss the future of destinations with reference to well-established models like VisitLondon.

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Keynote + Talk:
Carroll Rheem (Brand USA)
Joanna Darwin (VisitLondon)
Roberta Milano

Parity Rate, who?

BTO 2014 hosted an extremely popular slot called “A very calm debate on the Parity Rate” [see it here]: Accor, Starhotels, UNA Hotels and the Director General of Federalberghi Alessandro Nucara, with introduction, moderation and conclusions by Robi Veltroni. One of the fundamental questions discussed during the session was: in the absence of the parity.. Read more »

Periscope: the closest thing to teleportation

Periscope ci mostra il mondo in tempo reale, ma come funziona esattamente?  Come può essere usata per promuovere una destinazione?  Essendo ancora relativamente poco utilizzata, soprattutto in Italia, presenteremo alcuni case study, i nostri primi esperimenti e ci confronteremo sulle potenzialità del mezzo. Slot a cura di ALLTHINGSTuscany, il Social Media Team della Destinazione Toscana – Un progetto di Fondazione Sistema Toscana.. Read more »

In Italian

GoodBarber

Mobile innovation for tourism. The web plays an essential role in the search for the perfect holiday destination. But what happens when you get to your destination and the internet connection is not always available? GoodBarber is a DIY platform which allows you to create rapidly and simply a fantastic mobile application for iOS and.. Read more »

Creating an online bookings portal is worthwhile. We’ll convince you of this by sharing

Does it still make sense to launch a bookings portal in a market dominated by the OTAs? We will analyse some success stories, showing you how it is possible to profit from a portal, by uniting tourism operators, choosing the correct sales policies and investing in the local area and the tourist travel experience. We.. Read more »

11:50

Voices inside my head

In English [with simultaneous translation]

The voices we have inside, above and through our heads, the voices of our mobile phones. We take a look at the remarkable research of Criteo and attempt to analyse, understand and discuss it.

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Keynote + Talk:
Daniele Beccari (Criteo)
Ghassan Teffaha (Amadeus)
Lorenzo Lanati (Tripadvisor)
Philip Wolf 

14:20

TripAdvisor. The World of

50 minuti dedicati all’universo TripAdvisor.  I nuovi trend individuati dalle loro ricerche (mobile, connected travelers, rilevanza crescente della destinazione, viaggi internazionali e altro), i nuovi studi sulla rilevanza della reputazione, sulla connessione tra hotel engagement e hotel performance (anche in termini di roi), e infine le azioni che influiscono positivamente sull’engagement. Keynote SpeakerGianluca Laterza – Territory.. Read more »

DMOs. The show must go on

5 reasons why the DMOs we know are useless organisations. 10 reasons why the functions of DMOs are more important than ever. In the past 10 years, new technologies and the economic crisis have overturned the marketing of tourist destinations. The services traditionally provided by DMOs are now offered more effectively by the market: the.. Read more »

In Italian

TERRE di PIERO – In the steps of the traveling master

BTO 2015 hosts the project “TERRE di PIERO – IN THE STEPS OF THE TRAVELING MASTER”, promoted by four regional tourism bodies [Tuscany, with Toscana Promozione, the Marche Region, Umbria and the Emilia Romagna APT]. What we aim to understand during this session is how the ecosystem of a tourist destination – operators, governance, collective.. Read more »

In Italian

The frequencies of hospitality for all: let’s tune in. The communication of complex systems

Communication is a complex thing, even more so if the interlocutors communicate in different ways, albeit using the same language. How can we tackle communication for all: is it a paradox or an achievable aim? The time has come to address the question and find solutions. Organised by the Committee for the Promotion and Support.. Read more »

In Italian

Design and tourism: how can they work together?

Design can make the difference by improving the performance and positioning of a tourist business in a crowded market where it is extremely difficult to stand out. But other elements are needed to sustain that difference: and Synchronicity between these is essential in order to maximise the efforts of the entrepreneur to understand these new.. Read more »

In Italian

Notes of digital coaching

The secret is not to chase after butterflies but to cultivate our garden: notes on digital coaching. E-mails, sponsored posts, WhatsApp notifications and tags are common in our everyday experience, but how many of them are really welcomed and relevant for us? The flourishing of numerous sharing tools has turned our interlocutors’ attention into a.. Read more »

Too much information

In English [with simultaneous translation]

Big data in tourism & metasearch travel behaviors of Europeans.

Everything you should know about travel habits and trends when planning a trip and searching for a hotel room through the metasearch. How these huge amount of travel information get produced and handled? Big data in Tourism can really tell everything needed?

Exclusive research by trivago for BTO 2015 to know more about Big Data in the metasearch world.

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Keynote + Interview:
Giulia Eremita e Sidney Burdick (Trivago)
Giancarlo Carniani

E-GAL: how is Green my valley. Special Guest Runtastic

Speaker d’eccezione, intervistata da Stefano Landi, sarà Beatrice Ferri, Marketing & PR Manager di Runtastic, la popolare APP dedicata agli sportivi, che vanta 150 milioni di download e 75 milioni di utenti.  Abbiamo voluto portare la testimonianza di Runtastic a BTO 2015 perché crediamo che il turismo attivo rappresenti uno dei filoni su cui si.. Read more »

In Italian

Marketing and profiling in the age of privacy

The presentation will discuss the new management models for digital marketing, with particular reference to profiling, big data and the rules to follow based on the “Privacy by Design” and “Privacy by Default” paradigms, and thence to the forthcoming European Privacy regulations. Keynote Speaker Monica Gobbato – LawyerRead more »

Best Western Hotels & Resorts: brands and the new business opportunities

The transformation of Best Western goes beyond a rebranding: it’s a renewed product positioning aimed at guest satisfaction, and it constitutes an opportunity for hotels to create successful structures in terms of quality, brand recognition and distribution, in order to grow in value in the long term. Keynote Speaker Giovanna Manzi – CEO Best Western.. Read more »

14:55

Truth hits everybody

In English [with simultaneous translation]

Instant Booking on a platform such as Tripadvisor threatens to change the usual procedures for online booking. Large companies such as Marriott welcomed it immediately, others, like booking.com, have taken a while to get used to it. Is the Tripadvisor model stronger than ever? There’s a world beyond reviews.

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Panel:
Thomas Landen (Revinate)
Helena Egan (Tripadvisor)
Yahya Fetchati (Bookassist)

Lazio4innovators; start up e turismo, smart sinchronicity

Una piattaforma innovativa che permette di pianificare il tuo viaggio partendo dal budget a disposizione. Un’altra che mette in network ecommercializza l’offerta turistica diincoming della regione. Ed ancora come si può trasformare in maniera rivoluzionaria l’offerta culturale utilizzando le opportunità delle tecnologie di ultimagenerazione;  Ne parleranno tre giovani imprese del Lazio, che hanno il core business.. Read more »

In Italian

The costs of distribution

The battle for online visibility is increasingly fierce, with ever-growing fronts to be guarded, and search forums multiplying in a thousand channels which are hard to keep track of. The major OTAs are becoming search engines for the sector. In 2016, will it cost more to use intermediaries, or is it better to disintermediate? Introduction,.. Read more »

Short Stories dalla Toscana

Short Stories dalla Toscana, SEI storie con SETTE/OTTO minuti a testa di narrazione dell’idea, della genesi e di come ha preso corpo e soprattutto quale rapporto con gli altri attori della Destinazione: è quest’ultimo punto che a noi interessa indagare. Introduzione, moderazione e conclusioniLara Fantoni Sara Nocentini  Le storie, in ordine sparso Comune di SienaSpeaker Assessore.. Read more »

In Italian

Dinner at the Museum

Il Social Eating arriva al museo.  Alla scoperta di un modo nuovo di vivere un bene culturale da parte della cittadinanza e dei turisti connettendo il meglio del mondo enogastronomico e culturale locale.  Il racconto di come i migliori chef stellati di Torino hanno cucinato all’interno di Palazzo Madama per una serie di eventi di.. Read more »

In Italian

Beyond disintermediation: OTAs at the service of hotels

La disintermediazione è un concetto antiquato, stantio e antieconomico, su cui vengono costruite strategie in pieno e palese conflitto con le OTA.  Esistono metodologie pensate per trasformare una guerra persa in partenza in una partnership vincente.  E remunerativa. Keynote SpeakerItalo Paltrinieri – Hotel senior Consultant & Revenue Advisor QNT Interactive Read more »

15:45

When the world is running down you make the best of what’s still around

In English

The Uber phenomenon has literally thrown the online world and the world of transport into turmoil with its quotations and a business model everyone is copying. We try and understand this phenomenon, through an interview by Philip Wolf.

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Interview:
Tomaso Rodriguez (Uber)
Philip Wolf

16:15

Future traveller tribes 2030. What will tomorrow’s travellers be like?

Gli oltre 1,8 miliardi di viaggiatori previsti per il 2030 sceglieranno destinazioni e tipologie di viaggio sulla base delle loro caratteristiche personali e delle aspettative che ripongono nell’esperienza che andranno a vivere.  Amadeus farà fare un salto nel futuro per conoscere come cambieranno i comportamenti, le abitudini e le tecnologie più utilizzate dai viaggiatori.  Ci.. Read more »

Scleromarketing, with Tiziana Tirelli and Luciano Ardoino

A round-up of advertising campaigns for tourist destinations, gems collected over the years by two of the web’s most loved/hated polemicists.A session to be taken extremely lightly, a promise of 50 highly entertaining minutes and nothing more. Or who knows, maybe Scleromarketing will leave the audience with something. Introduction, moderation and conclusionsRobert Piattelli – Co-founder.. Read more »

In Italian

DMR digital marketing for restaurants: e-commerce and mobile

Strategie, tattiche, strumenti e buone pratiche per ottenere più coperti e più ordinazioni per il tuo ristorante, nell’era degli smartphone. Direttamente dall’esperienza dei due autori del libro “Ingredienti di Digital Marketing per la Ristorazione”, Nicoletta Polliotto e Luca Bove. Per la Ristorazione alberghiera, il ristorante stand alone o la catena ristorativa. Per creare una nuova.. Read more »

17:05

How can you measure a blogger?

Con 152 milioni di blog su internet e uno nuovo creato ogni mezzo secondo solo il 16% delle organizzazioni che operano nel settore turistico sta già collaborando con questi storyteller.   La bolla potrebbe scoppiare, ma da sempre abbiamo bisogno di farci rapire e ispirare dal racconto e quindi con tutta probabilità la sua crescita sarà.. Read more »

Tourism photo emotions. Getting excited with 2.0 photos

“A volte c’è un’unica immagine la cui struttura compositiva ha un tale vigore e una tale ricchezza e il cui contenuto irradia a tal punto al di fuori di essa che questa singola immagine è in sé un’intera narrazione.” Henri Cartier Bresson, fotografo Keynote SpeakerAnton Sessa – Founder FassaCom e appassionato di fotografiaRead more »

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