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What is your biggest travel pet peeve?
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What's the ONE thing you never travel without?
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Likewise Maren! Should be tons of fun.
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Woohoo! Great to see you again Lola!
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Plan on being there as I'm based in Stockholm.
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Smelly travelers annoy me. Please just shower. I get it, you are a rugged backpacker, you're saving money, you're a rule-breaker, whatever. Just use some soap and water. You smell.
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That is so very annoying. Good one!
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Sounds awesome! We wish to go, but don't know if we can yet. We've noted it in our calendar already though - it would be a blast to meet you all!
on Sunday
 

Maren Hogan, CMO at Galvanting Productions

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Um, everywhere. I'm producer of TBEX, and handle layout, advertising, marketing, and new media opportunities. I serve as the marketing and advertising arm of Galavanting Productions.
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Hug me mister!

I was recently in New York City for the TBEX ’10 conference. I greatly enjoyed my time and while the conference was bustling, I did find time to step outside for a moment alone during one of the sessions. I love to people watch, it’s fun and on this day, I was doing just that. [...]

Why do you go to conferences?

I’ve been thinking a little bit about conferences lately. It’s no secret that I love a good conference, unconference, meetup or tweetup. There’s just something about this social gal that enjoys meeting and greeting, dressing up, cruising the booths and drinking sponsored booze. But conferences are more than that. Having been part of organizing several [...]

Quit Yer Bellyachin’

There is not one person I talk to, male or female, young or old, who does not ask if 1) they can have my job or b) they can be my assistant So obviously, there is an overwhelming idea that this job is glamorous, fun, exciting, amazing, perfect and envy-inducing. I’ve got news for you [...]

My new about page

I used to have an about page that told you all about what I did. Well that was three years ago when I started this mother and lemme tell you, some things have got to change round here! So in the spirit of good change, here is what you need to know about me. Nothing. [...]

What travel means to me…

My love affair with travel began pretty early on. As a five year old traveling between my mother (who married an Air Force captain) and my dad (who stayed in sunny California, where I was born), I navigated airports and traveled treacherous Canadian roads to get to the nearest airport that offered non-stop flights to [...]

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TBEX Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark THIS November




You asked. We answered. While TBEX '09, TBEX '10 and TBEX '11 were all announced for N. American locations, Europe was being sorely neglected. Thanks to our presenting platinum sponsor MomondoContinue

Posted on August 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 14 Comments

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TBEX '11 Location Snaps



Avid TBEX-ers who've been paying attention might already know the location of TBEX '11 in Vancouver. But we wanted to give you a… Continue

Posted on August 17, 2010 at 2:32pm — 8 Comments

Maren @ Galavanting

TBEX Continues to Break Barriers with Research, Conferences

Excerpt from TBEX's latest press release..."In the wake of the 2nd Annual Travel Blogging Conference, titled TBEX, which recently took place in New York City on June 26 and 27, 2010. This Monday, pre-registration tickets went on sale for TBEX '11, and sold out within 18 hours. "
View the rest of this press release at http://pitch.pe/74299

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 3:56pm — 1 Comment

Maren @ Galavanting

So what does the travel blogging industry look like anyway?

It's a good question. There has been talk about whether this community of like minds (not the TBEX community per se but the community at large) or an actual profession or an emerging trend that will someday become an industry.

I know that I personally would like to know. As a marketing professional new to the industry, I not only deal with travel and public relations professionals, but community managers, hospitality professionals, marketing reps and lots more. Where does the "professi… Continue

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 2:58pm — 14 Comments

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Necco Wafers, Smoking in Airplanes and Ice Skating in Paris

My love affair with travel began pretty early on. As a five year old traveling between my mother (who married an Air Force captain) and my dad (who stayed in sunny California, where I was born), I navigated airports and traveled treacherous Canadian roads to get to the nearest airport that offered non-stop flights to Sacramento. I saw it all as an adventure, for the most part, and reveled in the one on one attention that comes from a 6 hour road trip with one's parent.

I was little. And annoyin… Continue

Posted on July 7, 2010 at 12:23pm — 1 Comment

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At 8:32pm on March 8, 2010, Donna Hull said…
Yikes, Maren, did I never respond to you about your Regent cruise question? Yes, I like Regent very much. Of course, I've sailed with them enough days to earn free internet time as well as free laundry. What's not to like about that?

Having said how much I like Regent, this year, I'm changing course and trying one of the new Seabourn ships. For me, it's more about having a balcony and being all-inclusive. I can find that on Regent, Seabourn and Silversea. I'm going to see just how far I can spread my cruising self around :-).
At 1:54pm on July 21, 2009, Gogo Inflight Internet said…
Hello Maren,
Sarah here with Gogo Inflight Interent! We are pleased to be sponsoring TBEX this weekend and look forward to meeting you in person!
Happy Travels! *-)-
Gogo Inflight Internet
At 5:19pm on July 20, 2009, Jessie Voigts said…
hi maren - thanks so much for all your work on TBEX. we're so excited to come! see you soon!
At 11:35am on July 17, 2009, Louise Brown said…
Hey Maren, I know you're probably busy organizing the conference, but I still wanted to invite you to a little meetup I'm organizing at noon in Wicker Park Sat., July 25.

We'll eat some delicious food, soak up the rays and listen to the bands for some general chilling out before the conference.

Please RSVP on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=106438472257

If you can't make it, please introduce yourself to me on Sunday!

Louise Brown
TravelPod.com Community Manager
At 5:41am on July 4, 2009, Nina Suwarno said…
Hello,
Just wanted to say thank you for creating this network and website. I've been looking for something like this and suddenly I found this only this week.

Nina
At 10:30am on June 26, 2009, kostas sidiropoulos said…
Have a nice weekend Maren.
At 2:37pm on June 15, 2009, Adrian Petersen said…
Seems your reply has got lost! Ciao...Adrian
At 2:02pm on June 6, 2009, SEO Secrets Travel & Tourism said…
Thanks for creating this network and the nice oppertunities for us to talk to new people!
At 9:41am on June 6, 2009, Adrian Petersen said…
Thank you for your friendship, I hope you got my previous comment? Ciao from Italy.

Adrian
At 1:06am on June 4, 2009, Craig Martin said…
I've been mainly offline for ages, but I'm back online (too much) for a bit.
 
 
 

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