Linking social media applications

In response to a number of clients requesting how to link common social media applications together, thought I’d write this post to explain how to achieve this.  It is not too difficult these days as all the major applications have built user friendly apps to facilitate this, so it should be quite straightforward.  It enhances [...]

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The best tourism Facebook pages?

Trying to create a list of some great Facebook pages used in the tourism industry as a training resource for small buisnesses in Welsh tourism.  If anyone knows of any examples that might help, inspire, demonstrate, that would be great.  Thanks again – Andrew

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Tourism Associations: An Approach to Social Media

Introduction The numerous Tourism Associations that I have been training in England and Wales have all recognised the need to keep abreast of contemporary marketing developments in tourism.  Destinations and businesses that remain at the cutting edge of marketing are undoubtedly amongst the most successful in the industry. Social media and its application in tourism [...]

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Anyone know where the best travel and tourism blogs are?

The search is on.   I’m looking for examples, good examples which I hope you can help me with.  In the various social media workshops that I deliver up and down the country it’s sometimes disappointing to learn how many tourism businesses that I come across that have never seen a blog, never had one, [...]

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10 Reasons to use Social Media When Launching a Hotel

The so-called web 2.0 world is confusing, here’s some ideas on maximizing this technology when opening a new property: http://www.hotelinteractive.com/article.aspx?articleid=14028

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SEO tips for tourism businesses

In response to loads of questions I receive about SEO, here’s some tips which I hope are of use.  Some are mine, others are from real experts, and some have been picked up from an excellent publication published by the World Tourism Organisation and European Travel Commission called a Handbook for E-marketing of Tourism Destinations. [...]

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Social media tourism training in the Forest of Dean

I am currently undertaking some social media training with my TruTourism consultancy hat on some tourism operators in the Forest of Dean and doing a little experiment to demonstrate the ‘live’ power of Twitter. Anyone got any views on how tourism businesses should use Twitter, or whether Twitter should be used as a marketing channel [...]

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Blogging for tourism PR?

I was asked by travel journalist Karen Bryan about the power of blogging and whether or not traditional PR agencies understand it?  Here’s the response.. Interesting indeed, and in my experience I think the area of online PR is certainly misunderstood by small traditional PR agencies, (yet they claim they can do it for their [...]

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TruPlaces TV

TruPlaces has just launched TruTube our new YouTube channel to show video tours (albeit amatuer, very amatuer!) of some of our places to stay in Gower.  You can now view a video snapshot of the inside of some of our self catering cottages in Gower Holiday Village. Hope this helps. TruPlaces TV

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Tourism workshops, the follow up.

Anyone who has attended the series of workshops that TruTourism has staged throughout Wales and parts of England recently, a big thank you.  I hope you enjoyed them.  Probably the most interest was created in the workshops tackling the application of social media in tourism, and how businesses can apply these techniques to promote their small business. [...]

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