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How has Social Media Changed the Tourism Industry?

Solimar International

The tourism industry looked very different merely 10 years ago. At that time, widespread internet usage had already wildly changed the landscape of the industry, increasing customer autonomy from the days of travel agency appointments and packages. Read on to learn the history of how social media changed the tourism industry.

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Building a Successful Social Media Marketing Campaign

Solimar International

Social media plays a massive role in traveler decision. Learn what makes a successful social media marketing campaign. Emerging around 15 years ago, social media platforms have dramatically changed communication and marketing, including the way we both plan and share our travel experiences.

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3 Steps to Encourage Customer Advocacy of your Tourism Experience Online

Tourism eSchool

3 Steps to Encourage Customer Advocacy of your Tourism Experience Online. Did you know that word of mouth marketing is one of lowest cost AND most effective forms of advertising for your tourism business or destination? Develop your tourism experience (from Destination New South Wales). By Rebecca White.

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10 Ways to Build Trust With Customers Online

Tourism eSchool

Because trust is what your customers need before they will click the “buy now” button on your website and visit your tourism experience. Trust that your tourism experience will be what they expected. Can customers easily find the information they need and/or book online? Trust that their money will be well spent.

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Quick Trips: How to Score Spontaneous Bookings

Dana Communications

The golden rule of traveling was always to book early, and the earlier the better. This generation likes to explore new places and are well versed in how to use tech to feed their travel-hungry appetites. Bump up your website and your on-line presence on popular travel sites: Expedia, Hotels.com, priceline.com, HotelTonight, etc.

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Bridging the Gap Between the C-Suite and the Destination’s Facebook Page: How a Strategic Content Plan Can Keep Marketing Efforts Consistent

Advanced Travel and Tourism

This holds particularly true for the travel and tourism industry, where successful destination marketing requires collaboration between various teams. Here we’ll delve into the ways a content plan can captivate communication between social media marketing, digital ads, the CEO, PR department, and the sales team.

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

Experts from around the world share what impacts global travel California may be the ultimate playground, but the reasons people come from all over the world—or don’t in the numbers they did pre-pandemic in some cases—vary by region. What flights were in place, were expensive, partly because of Chinese travelers bidding up demand.

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