The other weekend I was asked to be a panelist at the LA Times Travel and Adventure Show in a seminar about online booking tips and tricks.
This was the first travel panel I ever participated in and I was extremely nervous. Luckily, I had the best moderator (Jen Leo of the LA Times and awesome travel guru) along with Johnny Jet aka John DiScala) and George Hobica of AirFare Watchdog, two men who have the airfare booking and general travel booking business down pat. I learned so much from all of them.
I hope I was able to part some wisdom on the attendees myself. If nothing, then I did make them laugh with a few of my stories and when I spilled ice all over my lap. Clumsiness is always a crowd pleaser.
The only bummer was that the internet was not working in our room. So people were spouting out websites left and right and we couldn't even show them on the big projector slide for the attendees. Then again, I think maybe that helped moved the seminar along quicker. We only had an hour so it was very much rapid-fire with the tips and tricks. If we had the internet, we might have gotten stuck surfing the web.
Anyways, here are some snaps. The whole convention was pretty cool as far as conventions go.
I mean, it could have been a Library Convention which I have actually once attended. There were reps from cities, countries, airlines, and hotels. And of course, people hawking travel gear. I almost lingered at the Qantas table, but it would have broke my heart as I am dying to go back to Australia.
And I got to hear Phil Keoghan, host of Amazing Race, speak for a little bit. He needs to amp up that Kiwi accent, it makes him a little more adventurous sounding.
