The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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. Keith Jenkins (@velvetescape) August 4, 2012.

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Crowdsourcing Travel Blogger Tourism 170

ProBlogger

APRIL 2, 2012

As a blogger, I get pitched to a lot by companies and organizations asking me to endorse their products. 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. I also received tweets from some tourism organisations. Prize details.

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Tourism Blogger Training Class 55

Bare Feet Studios

JANUARY 1, 2012

It was my friend and Maui blogger Liza Pierce’s idea: let’s all write a blog post for January 1st! Plus, I have been hired to run this program again for LVB in 2012! UPDATE: Please help me also thank the wonderful team of bloggers we had on this inaugural run! Happy New Year!

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I started pondering what would happen if I held a training day for bloggers in Melbourne. Again, the idea paid off—we’ve now held two training days and there’s significant demand for more (we’re planning some exciting events for 2012). The idea paid off—it eventually evolved into my bestselling ebook.

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Tourism Training Conference eBook 42

Kikolani

APRIL 6, 2012

Bloggers: Win 1 of 10 Trips to The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia – From June 5 to June 10 this year, Tourism Queensland and Darren Rowse will bring ten of what he thinks are the most intriguing bloggers from around the globe to Queensland to meet me and experience the Great Barrier Reef as Queensland Blogger Correspondents.

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Mashup Resources RSS Tourism 113