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How to Use Social Media to Improve Your 2019 Events

Smart Meetings

Will 2019 be the year you leverage social media to make your events safer, more compelling and downright fun? A January 2018 report from WeAreSocial and Hootsuite explains just how important social media is in the average internet consumer’s life. Risk Management. What better way to reach them if a crisis arises?

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How has Social Media Changed the Tourism Industry?

Solimar International

But the explosion of social media platforms between 2006 and 2010 connected individuals around the world like never before, paving the way for another industry upheaval under social media marketing. Read on to learn the history of how social media changed the tourism industry. Let’s rewind to 2004.

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Tourism’s Top 10 Most Unique Destination Websites

Solimar International

Understanding what makes a travel destination website successful is crucial for anyone interested in reaching more potential travelers online. Sparking travel inspiration is a tough task, so we have compiled a list of the top 10 destination websites that inspire us and motivate us to imagine creative ways to entice travel plans.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

I joined the social media platform Mastodon a year ago. Given recent turbulent social media trends, I’m glad I took the plunge. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.) It was the first major social media platform where the majority of posts were public and searchable. (In

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Top Tourism Marketing Posts of 2018

Crowdriff

At CrowdRiff, we’re proud of the wealth of tourism marketing knowledge that we shared on our blog and in our resource centre in 2018, but are keen to reflect on what our readers enjoyed the most. 2018 was a big year for me too. In 2018, we introduced CrowdRiff’s Media Hub to help our customers streamline that process.

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Poaching: How You Can Prevent It

Smart Meetings

Unauthorized access, use and selling of data : A poacher may obtain attendee information by unauthorized use of a website or database, or they may purchase data from an unauthorized seller. Related : 6 Steps to Protect Your Social Media Data. In 2018, this number dropped to 63 percent—still a huge problem.

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5 Key Takeaways From ESTO 2018

Crowdriff

Braving the Arizona sun in mid-summer might raise a few eyebrows, but for those that attended ESTO 2018 the destination and venue could not have been more perfect. from ESTO 2018: 1) There’s a New Visual Format in Town. Shout out to whomever is handling @USTravelESTO ’s social. This is what social is about. Well played!