New project: How to promote tourist services?

[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi Torsten!

I feel honored that you appreciate any of my ideas! I also think that you are a real habitant of the ?land of ideas?. What makes me wonder is that in your area isn?t any support for SME?s or aren?t there any who will do a good job at a forum? However I think you have your imaginations in which way you want to give a support. I would like to learn more about your idea espcially because it seems to be an interesting projekt. If I?m able I liked to collaborate with you or i.e. to help you.
The Harz?s Magic appeal is really an interesting site. Although I had a surface look at it I agree to your opinion about their very well done job. What I also noticed is that, having a look at the links to some towns` website, most of the websites are written in German only and that the towns? websites hardly refer to any locations for overnight stay possibilities. Though there exists really marketing void like you mentioned.
As "Sachsen" is my father?s homeland I?m also interested to learn more about it, therefore for me it is most interesting to help you with your enterprise regarding the support of that area.
By the way, as Pat & Ken?s site have a reference to Clausthal Zellerfeld which has really lots of interesting locations and as they like footwalks (strolls) I miss a bit a discription of reaching the "Wartburg in Eisenach ". Although it might be "Th?ringen" it is near the Harz, isn?t it? Or was my look too surface in fact?

Torsten, I liked to hear from you again!

Michael

[Alan]

Hi,

I find it very difficult to complain in a foreign language - in my case French or German. In English - no problem. Many years ago I led a revolt at a hotel because the service was incredibly slow - one hour between courses. The food was hardly worth waiting for and the management agreed that they would pay for a meal at another restaurant. When it came to the final bill, I saw that 10% had been added for service. I crossed that out on the bill because I said we hadn't had any. But in France and Germany I lose my nerve. I fought hard to get a reduction in a French hotel because a menacing spring had come through the mattress during the night. We were granted one free breakfast - a magnificent 4 euros. Last year again in France (and don't get me wrong because there have been many occasions when the service has been delightful) we stayed in a hotel and discovered around a dozen dead flies in the bathroom. I pointed this out at reception and was told it would be attended to while we had our evening meal. It wasn't. As we left and I came to pay the bill, I made one more attempt to complain about the wretched flies and the receptionist blandly remarked that there had been a lot of flies that year.
Perhaps I ought to talk about experiences in Germany, Switzerland and Italy another time.

Alan
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[Torsten]

[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi Torsten!

What do you want me to add? I would say the way is prepared. So the start is a request only to find German tourist providers who can be made interested in using this possibility! Therefore it is a requestion for the advertise department. Or do you have the first clients yet? I think everything else is more or less a technical problem which to solve you have the capabilities! Your introduction is logical written and you have a link to this topic where every tourist provider can experience the way how an internet workshop could run. As you mentioned, there are opinions of proficient hotel guests, we have referred to some hotel introducing sites in order to look what could be done better or what is well done at particular sites. I think that is the beginning of such a workshop. If the project is started and the first user are present and also can agree with satisfaction the word of mouth advertisement will probably increase step by step.

Michael

[Torsten]

[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi Torsten!

I?m a bit ashamed to acknowledge that I?ve been rarely in Saxony and my experiences about the Wartburg and the saltmine in Merkers and the sole bath in Bad Salzungen I have from a wellness holiday I had in 2001!

But neverforless let me know more about your plans!

Michael

[Torsten]

Hello again my dear friends of online tourism marketing. It's been a while since we last talked about how to promote the tourist services of Central Germany.

My friend Mike who works at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been contacting various tourist organizations and facilities and he always mentions our website and this forum thread in particular.

One of the attractions in the Sangerhausen area is the so called Rosarium which is the largest rose collection in Europe. Interestingly enough, at this point there is only one website that provides some information about this unique place in English and it is run by Paul Barden. He is a rose enthusiast who received a grant from 'The Uncommon Rose', a US based rose catalog business.

So, the Sangerhausen Rosarium is now on our list of prospective candidates when it comes to creating website content.

There is a number of things we could do. For example, we could write an essay or short story that contains rose idioms such as everything is coming up roses. Why not include favourite songs that contained expressions with roses such as '... I never promised you a rose garden...
-- you probably know what song I'm talking about. At any rate, there is so much potential in this project and as soon as Mr. Niebergall introduces us to our first clients our efforts will pay off.

Any thoughts on this?
Have a rosy Sunday,
Torsten
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[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi Torsten!

If you think about a brainstorming first, here is my first point:

The name of a hard rock band: Guns ?n Roses

[Conchita]

There's a beautiful popular song about roses that goes back to World War I, Roses of Picardy. It was written by British officer Frederick E. Weatherley (music by Haydn Wood) in 1916.

[Alan]

Hi Torsten,

It's got to be Bill Shakespeare:

[Torsten]

Hi Conchita, Michael and Alan,

Many thanks for your interesting ideas. Yes, I think especially Shakespeare and roses make a good match. Incidentally, I wonder whether the word rosarium is commonly used in English. I know it is a Latin word but maybe rose collection or rosary are more appropriate to describe such a facility?
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[Conchita]

[Torsten]

Returning to our initial question, would you agree with me that the Sangerhausen Rosarium could be much better promoted through the web? I mean, there are so many things we (whoever that might be) could do such as

run a 'Rose Blog'

write essays about how Shakespeare used roses in his works

describe how roses are grown

compile a collection of stories, poems and books that deal with roses

tell potential visitors how the facility (the Rosarium) came into being

inform readers about the origin of the word Rosarium

show all the products that can be made of roses

organize a rose content (every user can send in photos and stories)

describe all the other sights in and around Sangerhausen

portray the people behind the Rosarium

and a lot more...

I'm asking this question because somebody simply has to start taking some of the steps outlined above. Why not share this beauty with people from all around the world? The Sangerhausen/Harz region has an excellent infrastructure but it seems to me that the people there don't want to open up to the world around them. I can't get rid of the impression that they are doing their best to hide behind their beautiful mountains in inside the walls of their ancient castles.
Any ideas?
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