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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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Social Media Contest: Send Your Facebook Profile On A Cape Town Holiday

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism launched a new Facebook travel app this week, designed to allow “virtual visits” to the city through a user’s Facebook profile. The campaign launched this past Monday (October 2) and will run until the end of December 2012.

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5 Reasons Facebook Should Continue to be Part of Your 2022 Marketing Strategy

SocMed Sean

In 2012, Facebook became the first social media network to ever surpass one billion monthly users. In fact, a new report by the World Travel & Tourism Council even predicts that travel will be even more popular this year than before the pandemic. Is Facebook still a good marketing platform?

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What brands and BTS can teach you about partnerships and social media marketing

Unmetric

With PSY’s Gangnam Style going viral in 2012, global interest in K-pop started rising steadily. As honorary tourism ambassadors of Seoul, they participated in the “Live Seoul Like I Do” campaign, where each artist of BTS shows their favorite parts of the city and centers them with a playlist. The rise of BTS. Visit Seoul.

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Win 1 of 10 Trips to The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia

ProBlogger

On the top of my list was something that I have a lot of experience with—something I promote at any opportunity and something that I’d always dreamed of showcasing on my blogs. The idea was simple—we run a competition to bring a group of bloggers to Australia to see the Great Barrier Reef and also do a little blogging training.

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Summary of New Media Artist-in-Residence Program

Bare Feet Studios

It is the last day of 2011 and I want to add an exclamation point of gratitude on each of my blogs – most of which suffer from neglect from me. It was my friend and Maui blogger Liza Pierce’s idea: let’s all write a blog post for January 1st! I am starting on this blog, as this is the easy one! (I

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Bare Feet Studios Final Three for Best Social Media Campaign

Bare Feet Studios

We are so thrilled to be one of the three finalists for the 2012 Annual Pacific Edge Magazine business awards: best social media campaign. It has gotten a tremendous response from the travel blogging community and been written up in numerous places. Links are all on the above article.)