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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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Travel Brands That Are Doing Social Right: How we utilized Social Media to Drive Visitation to the OBX

Ignite Social Media

Our travel & tourism client, Visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina (OBX) came to us looking for a partner who could leverage social media to drive visitation to the destination during the off-season. 17% increase in site traffic Y-o-Y. 19% increase in overall intent to visit actions Y-o-Y. ·

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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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The Erstwhile Culture Of Travel

Forbes Social Media

This article analyses the effects of technology on travel culture today to include medical tourism and everyday life events as now marketed as "experiences" through online travel sites and apps.

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How Instagram Has Taken Over Tourism Marketing

Pixlee

But in a digital world where social media connects travelers and homebodies alike, would-be adventurers no longer have to depend on a travel agent’s recommendation for an exciting new trip. But today, you can’t form an effective tourism marketing plan without it. Geo-Tag Tourism. Engagement. Instagram boasts a 2.3%

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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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Touring the World: Preparing for a Long Trip

The Realtime Report

Whether for work or pleasure, all kinds of travel are booming now more than ever due to technological advancements and the globalization trend, making going abroad easier than ever before. Many people have a desire to travel the world after they graduate from university. Make a Travel Itinerary. Avoid them altogether, instead.

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