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Travel Brands that Are Doing Social Right

Ignite Social Media

Social media’s impact on the travel and tourism industry continues to grow stronger. In fact, some studies show that over 40% of travelers under 33 prioritize the ‘Instagrammability’. When it comes to reaching these users, here are our top travel brands on social. Travel and Leisure. The Outer Banks.

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Traveling to Improve Your Social Media Presence

Socialmedia.biz

Here’s how traveling can make you more visible on social media: New connections. As soon as you travel to a new destination, you can start networking straight away. Spend time talking to locals and fellow travelers. Not everyone gets to travel as much as they’d like to, if at all. Travel purchases. Travel purchases.

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How the Travel Industry is Recovering in 2021 with Influencers

Pixlee

Travel and tourism took a major hit in 2020. Over 2020, the travel industry lost approximately 1.3 A report published in May 2020 even estimated the loss of over 100 million jobs in the travel industry (as per the World Travel and Tourism Council). trillion dollars in export revenue. Reestablishing Trust.

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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. Local cuisine?

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I know that travel consumers booking via my hotel website i.e. direct customers are more loyal, bring more revenue and tend to travel more often. In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% a year ago to 30% of CRS bookings in Q3 2009 (eTRAK).

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46 Travel Tools to Optimize Your Next Vacation

Convince & Convert

As we bathe in the memory of friends, family and BBQ over this week’s Memorial Day holiday, our minds are now tuned up and ready to hit our favorite travel season – summer. Vacations do make people happy,” says Mr. Nawijn, tourism research lecturer at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. “But

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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. According to Cape Town Tourism, the social networking giant sees more than 300 million photos uploaded every day, many of them travel photos.

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