A New Home

TravelCommons has moved to a new home – BoardingArea, a new portal for business travel blogs and podcasts from the people behind FlyerTalk, WebFlyer, and InsideFlyer. The move won’t change the tone or content of the podcast, nor have I signed away content ownership. For better or worse, it’s all still mine.

Instead, it’s an opportunity to increase inbound traffic and gain more subscribers by raising the profile of TravelCommons. TravelCommons has gotten completely lost in the morass that the iTunes podcast directory has become. Searching on “business travel” returns 150 results — a potpourri of language training, leisure travel and shopping podcasts, with only a handful that are really about business travel. BoardingArea answers that failing, providing a single site with 8 high-quality business travel blogs and 1 podcast. We’ll see how it goes, but I’m looking forward to expanding the audience for the conversations we’ve been having since May 2005.

I’m still shaking down the site with the BoardingArea team, so be a bit patient with me. However, as always, I appreciate any suggestions and feedback that you have — either leave a comment to this post or email me directly at comments@travelcommons.com. As as Bartles and Jaymes always said, thank you for your support.