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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

Akamai Marketing

Does anyone else think its interesting that Twitter, the hottest social media network today, is generating events? Ah, events. Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Everyone is doing it.

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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. Along the way, Spirit of Aloha gathered such interest, they started a blog , to keep everyone up to date.

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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. billion the city invested to welcome over 1.5

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Jack Welch supports events and their business uses.

Akamai Marketing

By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency? All Rights Reserved.

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Nine Brands We Can Learn from in Uncertain Times

Pixlee

Breckenridge Tourism Office . While travel and hospitality companies have been hit disproportionately hard lately, this local tourism bureau has begun sharing stories of local businesses giving back. Even once in-person events start to return and stores reopen, digital engagement will remain critical to consumer affinity. .

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Our speaker also teaches at the University of Washington and encourages CEO’s to embrace blogging and social media. Our speaker also teaches at the University of Washington and encourages CEO’s to embrace blogging and social media. Dan’s company gets it: the most recent blog post is featured on the home page.

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Tourism Tweetup: Connecting Locals & Visitors

Bare Feet Studios

It included the launch of a blog for the bureau, VisitMauiBlog.com. Not all of them will be able to join us tomorrow, but I wanted to create an easy way to see who we are and to invite our guests to tap us, and our blogs, to help tell the stories of visiting Maui! A Maui Blog. So Pupuka – Personal Blog. Photography.

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