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. Local cuisine?

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2012

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. Watch a video explaining the campaign here:

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2012, Facebook became the first social media network to ever surpass one billion monthly users. Travel and Vacation Industries will Rebound. 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.

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Bare Feet Studios

JANUARY 1, 2012

This is the second time I have worked for MVB and they are so willing to get out there and do what it takes to keep Maui Nui a top travel destination! Be sure to read this summary over at Media Post and listen to my interview on the This Week in Travel. Plus, I have been hired to run this program again for LVB in 2012!

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ProBlogger

APRIL 2, 2012

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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Bare Feet Studios

MAY 31, 2012

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.)

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Audiense

AUGUST 4, 2017

There is a growing trend of music tourism whereby festival goers choose to travel abroad to attend such events also contributing to the annual turnover. Surprisingly, even though ticket prices for Tomorrowland have increased by 12% since 2012 the event managed to sell out in 40 minutes flat!

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