It’s a Wrap: TBEX Europe in Girona, Spain

Ah, just saw Karon’s note about conference content. I’ll jump in.

I think the spectacular parties were pretty hard to match in terms of conference content and did appear to have received the lion’s share of planning. I LOVED them. The networking opportunities were excellent.

Re: sessions, I felt, and others I talked to did also, that the sessions were sometimes great and sometimes inconsistent, too few, and perhaps too general or beginning level; more concrete, specific information would have been helpful and I only got that at a session or two. Perhaps more workshop style sessions would be helpful to people and even a poll beforehand so you know the skill level of the people coming.

A major area for improvement is in writing workshops. May I suggest that next time an entire track be devoted to writing, because very few blogs exist (well) without good writing. There seems to be some debate on the importance of good writing but I for one think it’s paramount to great content – even if the writing is in short, bite-sized titles and teasers. The best sessions I went were all based on visual content; the writing bit needs to catch up. Another area of training might be in cultural awareness – there was some pretty shocking behavior on the part of one or two peeps on the after tours who seemed pretty unaware of how not to be that obnoxious tourist. That’s a trait that should not be encouraged in travel blogging.

One last thing. There should be morning as well as afternoon sessions which basically repeat, at least in one afternoon or the other. It was such a bummer to miss so many great sessions!

Two cents.
Anjani

and the castle party…http://www.pointsandtravel.com/remember-how-i-told-you-i-was-invited-to-a-party-at-a-castle-in-spain/

I wanted to say a huge thank you to all the organisers – TBEX and Costa Brava tourism. The event was very well organised and I enjoyed the sessions – learned a lot, the timings were very good and we had plenty of time to get to know each other.

I have not included a lot of information about the conference on my post, as it is not relevant to my readers – a brief mention was enough 🙂

Once again, thank you all and look forward to the next TBEX Europe event

Would be great if you could include my podcats interview with Jaume Marin about Costa Brava http://www.mybloggingjourney.com/incostabrava-podcast-interview-jaume-marin/ Thanks

Happy surprise to find my most recent post on the list! Thanks. Definitely more coming soon 😉 Happy to read everyone’s experience. Hugs, Mariana/ @travelthirst

Here’s a little something about Catalonia – not TBEX as such, more observances from roaming the streets of Girona and the region during the conference – http://www.sophiesworld.net/catalonia-new-european-state/ – and another one I wrote just before the conference, about Girona – http://www.sophiesworld.net/stairs-of-girona-catalonia-spai/

I wrote about Girona and the Castle Party so far, with many more posts to come about all of the great places we went post conference. http://spanishsabores.com/2012/10/25/why-attend-a-travel-blogging-conference-tbex-castle-party/ and http://spanishsabores.com/2012/10/19/getting-to-know-girona/