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

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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

I also received tweets from some tourism organisations. Lucky winners will not only experience the destination first hand, they will get to blog about it plus become a guest blogger for Tourism Queensland’s own blog later this year. The content will later be added to Tourism Queensland’s new blog. A working holiday of sorts.

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Summary of New Media Artist-in-Residence Program

Bare Feet Studios

Plus, I have been hired to run this program again for LVB in 2012! Lots more ideas are percolating of course, but for now, I share my gratitude for a wonderful year in 2011 – in so many respects, and am very excited about the big possibilities in 2012 – the year of the Dragon !

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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. As founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Social Media Club (SMCHI) , I am giddy happy that four of our members are finalists in the overall awards.