Milkwood House self catering now available this Summer!

Owing to a sudden last minute cancellation of an extended booking throughout the Summer, Milkwood House has just become available for the rest of July and August 2011. So if you’re looking for a last minute self catering holiday in Wales, there’s now a rare chance to stay in one of the top self catering [...]

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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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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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10 Tourism Websites Designed Free using Moonfruit

I’m asked a lot about web design particularly from new tourism businesses just starting out in Wales.  Depending on the size of your business and your budget, I would nearly always suggest that you out-source the build of a website to a professional web design company.  Personally, I use and highly recommend a company called Twist [...]

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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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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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Every poet is a thief

OK, I admit it, I have stolen this little bit of inspiration to promote our modern ‘twist’ on tourism consultancy, but this is surely one of the coolest pieces of viral marketing on record.  Not exactly tourism marketing but it only proves that Dylan was right, maybe  ”every poet is a thief” after all.  If you can [...]

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