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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. In this exponential success, social media played a significant role. Let’s find out. or “Belong Anywhere.”

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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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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

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Our speaker also teaches at the University of Washington and encourages CEO’s to embrace blogging and social media. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. Most travel planning self-serve online. What more can I say?

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Cam Conversation: Business Travel to Hawaii, NextLevelHI, Facebook.

Bare Feet Studios

Links Mentioned: Aliza Sherman – “Social Media Talent Exchange&# (I love that idea!) We’d love to host more conferences here and it’s vital we know what it takes on your side of the pond to get here!

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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: Making Business Fun Again | Bare Feet Blog

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Along comes social media which is so conversational, creative, interactive, mostly free and bam! To add to the carnival-like atmosphere, JetBlue is helping its “Jetters” get organized, with a Facebook page where travelers can make plans to meet up, ask advice, post their personal dos and don’ts, or list their favorites spots.

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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

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Social media has earned a spot alongside our government planners and traditional news media. Hundreds of tweets were created every minute covering every imaginable aspect of the traveling tsunami from the Chile. The user-generated messages supported both of those organizations on a second by second basis.