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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

Whether it's at an airport, on a train or in a car, you're mobile and your digital life is mobile too. They've made great use of Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and more and have always led with a very human and very customer-centric approach. Just this week, Apple announced that it sold 37 million iPhones and 15.4

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Lessons Learned From the Traveling iPhone

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Reyhan Dhuny via Flickr, CC 2.0. So heavy of heart, frantic of furrowed brow, and voluminously vexed, I made my way to the hotel shuttle that was waiting to cart me to a Hilton-full of traveling Orgonians (that’s not a typo, that’s how they pronounce “Oregonians,&# ask Mo Sherifdeen ). That’s right.

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I reported them to the ACCC – remember “free&# mobile phone fiasco and resultant fines? 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. Engage your customers directly via social media and mobile initiatives, and Web 2.0

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50 Great Apps for Your iPad

Dave Fleet

Great way to save multi-task while travelling. BBC News – Great mobile interface for catching up on the latest news. Darkslide – Another iPhone app; good for uploading photos to Flickr and browsing your friends’ latest photos. Great when you’re travelling in a new city. Social Networking.

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Shanan & Kate’s Excellent QR Code Adventure

Waxing UnLyrical

Okay, our adventure wasn’t as thrilling as traveling the Circuits of Time in a phone booth with George Carlin, but it was educational none-the-less. Image: Optiscanapp via Flickr, CC 2.0. Many of the groups were providing QR codes with links to non-mobile sites. Here is what we found out: 1. thumbs up.*.

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Amit Kumar via Flickr, CC 3.0. For example, Kasturi and Sons Ltd, publisher of The Hindu , has recently launched iPad and mobile apps for its general and financial newspapers. reading and traveling. Yes, the rupee is 62 against the U.S. dollar (as of December 1, 2013). 2,938 crore (~$473.8M) by the end of 2014.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

According to Jeremy Williams , social media director for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (and my boss when I do travel writing for IOTD), blog posts with photos get more traffic than blog posts without. Photos: Having just bashed photos as nonessential, I will still say that they’re powerful and important.

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