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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. Engage your customers directly via social media and mobile initiatives, and Web 2.0 I will take full advantage of Social Marketing and enhance the social media strategy for my hotel in 2010.

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Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport Launches Interactive Game Powered By Instagram Photos

Convince & Convert

Hints such as airline, flight duration, and local time can assist in identifying the location, but also deduct time from the clock. The top 50 scores have a chance to win two free airline tickets to a destination of their choice. Once the user begins the game, they’re prompted with a series of location-based Instagram images.

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Touring the World: Preparing for a Long Trip

The Realtime Report

You can book tours through the social media pages of tourism boards. You can even register before arriving at the airport on web pages dedicated to this purpose so that airlines can be on the lookout if something happens while traveling. Never Ask Strangers for Information.

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Real-Life Instagram Project Filters In Unique View of London

Convince & Convert

The only difference from the rural vista is that a cluster of people in a city suddenly stopping to snap a photo tends to turn more heads and generate attention quickly – much like the ripple effect marketers try to achieve when generating social media content, or launching a new campaign.

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Mongrel Media: When Corporate Comms hijacks Traditional and Social Media

Laurel Papworth

Mongrel Media: Traditional vs Corporate vs Social Media. I’m betting on the mongrel Corporate taking over Heritage AND Social channels. Traditional media is meant to be impartial but currently is using sponsored “columns” written by banks to bolster up the likes of Australian Financial Review.

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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

Akamai Marketing

The campaign, a road tour, dubbed the “Spirit of Aloha” includes Hawaiian travel and tourism executives, 3 dancers & 2 musicians on loan from the Polynesian Cultural Center as well as Maui’s Camile Velasco of American Idol fame. The entire program generated much interest in tourism circles. What’s your social currency?

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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. Links are all on the above article.)