Patterns & Trends in Tourism Intelligence

In the 1970's I became fascinated by the patterns in the world of intelligence, where when random noise is replaced by man made patterns you can bet you are on to something.

The study of patterns went further, into sales and buying habits of consumers, and with a little research even into satisfaction of visitors to a country, or tourist attraction.

It seemed that wherever you turned the environment was made up of patterns. Back then the study of the behavior of crowds, swarms and groups of insects, birds, fish, animals and even humans had not been studied. It would take the arrival of super computers to achieve this.

In the early 1980's as a Consultant to Visnews, the global TV News organization I again became fascinated by patterns, this time in news feeds. Often small events that seem unconnected can develop into huge world class news by the chance interaction, or deft hand of politicians, PR Agencies, or the Intelligence Community. The random nature of news feeds had been replaced by identifiable patterns.

Back in those days there was no way of tracking anything other than the daily newspapers, and newspaper clippings became the untidy, messy and labor intensive result of trying to identify patterns in the news.

Today the patterns have not gone away, but where there were hundreds, there are now hundreds of millions, thanks to the Internet. But finally there is a convergence of computer science, biology and the media in the form of Artificial Intelligence, and complex Swarm Intelligence Algorithms. Finally we have the technology and ability to track the millions of news sources, collect, catalog and analyze the content, and portray the patterns as a constantly refreshing graphic. An intelligence video game of the media.

This is the Holy Grail of media monitoring, and the graphics on the screen allow even a busy politician to identify and track the media digital universe and how it interacts with their corporation, organization or sales. Today I am explaining how patterns in news can benefit Business Development Give me a call on (410) 820-0491