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Social Media Contest: Send Your Facebook Profile On A Cape Town Holiday

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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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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

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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. million soccer fans back in 2010.

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Touring the World: Preparing for a Long Trip

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You can book tours through the social media pages of tourism boards. You can search online for accommodation deals near major tourist attractions in the city (using websites such as Groupon, for example) rather than splurging on expensive hotels.

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Entrepreneurs Giving Young Latino Business Owners Helping Hand

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Given its moniker, the LatinX Travel Club does certainly help facilitate and spotlight meaningful and memorable travel experiences among its members, but the club’s services extend far beyond the tourism realm as driven and scaled by Watson’s Ventyour, Inc. Hispanic adult obesity rate of 44.8

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