Travel Tidbits—Houston’s New Star-Studded Tourist Campaign and Good News for Frequent Flyers

Would you be more willing to vacation in Houston, Texas if Beyonce Knowles told you how wonderful the area was? How about if former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara recommended places to eat and shop? Would that encourage you to book a trip faster? Execs with the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau sure hope so. The group recently recruited some of Houston’s most famous residents for its new multi-million dollar ad campaign and they are hoping the celebrity slant pays off in Texas-sized proportions. Gone are the traditional touristy slogans (the bureau recently pulled the plug … Continue reading

Cookie-Scented Ad Campaign Crumbles

You’re familiar with the “Got Milk?” campaign, right? Well, here’s a story about an ingenious twist on the campaign that just got dunked for reasons that made me shake my head (see if your head wags after you read why). The new marketing campaign to promote milk included outfitting five San Francisco bus shelters with cookie-scented cardboard strips at a cost of about $30 per shelter. Basically, scented oils were sandwiched between cardboard cards emblazoned with “Got Milk?” and affixed to shelter walls, in hopes that the smell of just-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies would spark cravings for milk. The creator … Continue reading