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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

Akamai Marketing

The campaign, a road tour, dubbed the “Spirit of Aloha” includes Hawaiian travel and tourism executives, 3 dancers & 2 musicians on loan from the Polynesian Cultural Center as well as Maui’s Camile Velasco of American Idol fame. The entire program generated much interest in tourism circles. The result?

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Airbnb Social Media Strategy: Sharing Stories, Building Community

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By blending collaborative consumption with experiential tourism and replacing impersonal hotel stays with a sense of community. Founded in 2008, Airbnb struggled to build trust in its unique business model initially. But how did they hit the marketing bullseye with their social handles? The company also recorded a whopping $2.2

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

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Festivals make your marketing dollars go farther. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter? Internet spend increased over 18% from 06 to 07.

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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

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Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Here’s the great thing: by their very nature, Twitter-peeps share something in common, making it a very powerful marketing tool. Everyone is doing it. Ah, events.

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LIVE: podcamp+wordcamp Hawaii 2008

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Tagged as: flickr , gohawaii , hawaii convention center , new media , podcamp , road runner , Social Media , unconference , ustream , viddler { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Rush L October 24, 2008 at 12:04 pm Jus was seein how “campers&# are doin! Read more about what’s going on here under the chat window below.

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Free Idea: Podcaster-in-Residence Saves Hawaii Tourism?

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Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > Social Media , Strategy > Free Idea: Podcaster-in-Residence Saves Hawaii Tourism?

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

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I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. All Rights Reserved.