--- title: "Travel Tips: From the Airport to the Hotel" id: "14413" type: "post" slug: "travel-tips-from-the-airport-to-the-hotel" published_at: "2012-11-13T23:11:24+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T19:21:35+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2012/11/13/travel-tips-from-the-airport-to-the-hotel/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2012/11/13/travel-tips-from-the-airport-to-the-hotel.md" excerpt: "Make things easier on attendees by offering up travel tips on making it to the hotel easily. Also: Instagram’s increasing importance for branding." taxonomy_category: - "Meetings / Events" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "event planning" - "Meetings" - "Transportation" - "Travel Tips" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "Director" - "Manager" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Travel Tips: From the Airport to the Hotel Not everyone’s a travel pro. You may know all the tips and tricks to getting around your meeting venue — but your attendees might not. And that’s OK, because you’re there to help, right? One way to help accommodate them, and more, in today’s Social Media Roundup: ### Cut the Stress > How to be savvier with public transportation. Good for you, your hotel guests, mtg participants. [#hsmai (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/hsmai?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [#ESPATweets (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESPATweets?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [http://t.co/ElX2ABv4 (opens in a new tab)](http://t.co/ElX2ABv4) > > — FocusForum (@FocusForum) [November 13, 2012 (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/FocusForum/status/268454443241074688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) **The most annoying part** of any conference trip? The trip between the airport and the hotel. But all is not lost, thanks to a number of transit options — from free bus rides out of Boston’s Logan Airport, to cheap rental cars, to apps such as [GroundLink (opens in a new tab)](http://www.groundlink.com/) , which allow you to schedule your ride from the airport days in advance. [USA Today has more details. (opens in a new tab)](http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2012/11/12/how-to-be-savvier-with-public-transportation/1700593/?csp=Travel) How could your association offer up this information (or other travel tips) to help cut the stress level for your attendees? *(ht [@FocusForum (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/FocusForum/status/268454443241074688) )* ### Don’t Underestimate Instagram https://twitter.com/shellyalcorn/status/268433648410312704 **As we recently noted,** Instagram’s just-launched profile pages [are a big deal (opens in a new tab)](http://associationsnow.com/2012/11/lunchtime-links-a-campaign-emails-postmortem/) . But maybe you weren’t sold by the pages themselves, [or how useful they really are for event managers (opens in a new tab)](http://associationsnow.com/2012/11/social-media-roundup-learning-from-getting-burned/) . Maybe [MediaPost’s pitch will win you over (opens in a new tab)](http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/186859/the-image-economy-cometh-why-instagrams-new-prof.html#axzz2C8m4kGHT) . The opportunity, Samuel Rosen writes, is that it really allows for a service that was once decentralized over many platforms to now become a centralized home point itself — complete with 100 million members. “With the launch of profiles, and with the assumption that [CEO Kevin] Systrom’s ultimate vision far transcends the mere time-based and randomly selected photos that profiles currently display, the likelihood of native, brand-driven Instagram engagement becomes very real,” Rosen explains. “Instagram, in other words, becomes its own full-blown engagement platform — one worthy of a robust strategy, with its own complexities and necessary sensitivities to terms of service and nuanced rules of netiquette.” *(ht [@shellyalcorn (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/shellyalcorn/status/268433648410312704) )* Anything cool you’ve seen online lately? Let us know in the comments. [Ernie Smith](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/) Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now. [More articles by this author](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/) Tags: [#event planning](https://associationsnow.com/tag/event-planning/) [#Meetings](https://associationsnow.com/tag/meetings/) [#Transportation](https://associationsnow.com/tag/transportation/) [#Travel Tips](https://associationsnow.com/tag/travel-tips/) **Stay Informed** [Subscribe to our free newsletter](https://associationsnow.com/newsletter/) , *Associations Now Daily News*, to find out what’s happening in the association world every business day. ## You Might Like - [PodcastAssociations Now Presents: Beyond the Contract: Building Stronger Destination PartnershipsSeptember 24, 2026](https://associationsnow.com/2026/09/24/associations-now-presents-beyond-the-contract-building-stronger-destination-partnerships/) - [VideoMelvin Tennant, CAE, President & CEO of Meet Minneapolis, Welcomes You to Great Ideas 2026September 2, 2026](https://associationsnow.com/2026/09/02/melvin-tennant-cae-president-ceo-of-meet-minneapolis-welcomes-you-to-great-ideas-2026/) - [VideoASAE TV Daily Recap: Final Day at the 2026 ASAE Annual Meeting & ExpositionAugust 24, 2026](https://associationsnow.com/2026/08/24/asae-tv-daily-recap-final-day-at-the-2026-asae-annual-meeting-exposition/) - [VideoTerin Bates, MBA, CAE, CX-PRO, Shares Her Experience at the 2026 ASAE Annual Meeting & ExpositionAugust 18, 2026](https://associationsnow.com/2026/08/18/terin-bates-mba-cae-cx-pro-shares-her-experience-at-the-2026-asae-annual-meeting-exposition/) ## Comments **Comments are for ASAE members.** [Learn more about comments on this site.](https://associationsnow.com/comments/) [Log in](https://associationsnow.com/login?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fassociationsnow.com%2F2012%2F11%2F13%2Ftravel-tips-from-the-airport-to-the-hotel%2F%23comments) to your member account or [join ASAE](https://my.asaecenter.org/select-a-membership-type/) !