Welcome to BusinessTravelRADIO  April 09, 2010

This week's BusinessTravelRADIO program
sponsored by South Fork Ranch.

Thomas Steinmetz, Publisher of eTurboNews

BTR on eTN! 

BusinessTravelRADIO is now distributed through online travel news giant, eTurboNews

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Sandy and Thomas, longtime colleagues and friends, talk about their newest joint endeavor that provides for the weekly worldwide distribution of BusinessTravelRADIO programming to eTurboNews’ 235,000+  subscribers comprised of travel industry professionals, travel writers, journalists and media organizations. They’ll also discuss the growing importance of search engine optimization, readers comments and feedback, social networking, Google News and keyword newsletters in the effective distribution of today’s travel news and information.

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We get the lowdown on and takeaways from Biannual US-Africa Business Summit in Washington, DC from the man who truly knows. There were nearly 1700  attendees and delegates from around the globe who took part in 90+ educational breakout sessions. Hillary Clinton spoke there, once again expressing the strong commitment of the US to investment in Africa. And then, there was the networking, too!

Mona Naffa, Founder,
Society of Tourism International-Middle East

One Stop Shop for all your travel needs to Jordan and surrounding countries.

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We take a fresh look at the Switzerland of the Middle East and ask more about the opportunities in Jordan.

Born and raised in California, Mona calls Jordan her home and has been marketing Jordan as a tourism and meetings destination for years. Her company has partnered with Expedia.com to offer even more travel and tour destinations to Amman. Mona talks about Business Travel to Jordan.

Fevzi Turkalp,
The Gadget Detective

Fevzi is a frequent guest on many radio programs where he is known as a tech guru.

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We talk with the Fevzi about some of the new technologies coming about for business travelers including laptops that are smaller, lighter and extremely powerful. On the menu today are self encrypting hard drives (FDE or full drive encryption) to automatically secure data on the fly and the light and lightning fast Sony Zed11 with a Core i7 quad processor, high end graphics processor and solid state drives with no moving parts that extend battery life like never before.