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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

HotelsMag has come up with 10 Internet Marketing Resolutions for 2010 including social media ones. HotelsMag Top 2010 Marketing Resolutions. Situation: Across the industry, in 2010, Direct Online Channel sales will exceed 62% of total online hotel bookings. Over 44% of Internet users are active in social media.

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How Instagram Has Taken Over Tourism Marketing

Pixlee

But in a digital world where social media connects travelers and homebodies alike, would-be adventurers no longer have to depend on a travel agent’s recommendation for an exciting new trip. After all, the social network was only founded in 2010, under a decade ago. Geo-Tag Tourism. The mountains of Cape Town.

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How People Made 2010 What It Was

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How People Made 2010 What It Was December 31st, 2010 Tweet Just a few more hours before we put our 2010 calendars away and start our New Year, eh? My, time flies. I turned 40. Bring it on!

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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. Who has time for this?

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

The quicker the response, the happier the complainer and the more impressed the social media listeners are. Give them a private way to stay in touch (so they can voice their concerns to their new friend on the inside as opposed to using social media). What’s your social currency? But not really.

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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. million soccer fans back in 2010.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories. It punches a hole in the theory that social media and content creation success has to be a huge time commitment. How are you integrating social media into other programs? said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River.