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Why Timeshare — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:37:19 -0000

These are all highly valid ideas for me to pursue in my own marketing efforts.

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willingtraveller — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:21:03 -0000

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remove Palladium Antivirus — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:06:59 -0000

Nice post there. Raised a few things I hadn't thought about before. Thx.

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BartonFink42 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:18:52 -0000

I agree with Cristie. Facebook is a great way to start. Also, other sites to consider, are sites specialized on hotels search and booking, like this one where I recently looked at the Ubud Hotels for a cheap room. I realized that this kind of sites are increasing in number and also improve their look and their efficiency. It's a great way to boost your hotel's business.

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Cristiemandal — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:53:11 -0000

I think the best way to start is Facebook, Flikr or any other social networks. Being known through these communities is the first and maybe the most iportant steps.

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Powerful_ang — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:14:39 -0000

Great Good Karma Trekking , i found the company providing the best trekking servise in Nepal , i would like to recommend this famous nepali Trekkking to all Nepal travellers from any parts of world

peac

Jay

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ziya — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:25:30 -0000

i like your site this is very helpful in tourism Tourism

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nabraj — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:53:24 -0000

We cordially welcome you to NEPAL which is Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya, Nepal is where the ice-cold of the mountains meets the steamy heat of the Indian plains. It's a land of yaks and yetis, stupas and Sherpas and some of the best trekking on earth. The Himalaya's most sophisticated urban cultures took shape here, in the three great minikingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley -- home to a world-class artistic and architectural heritage.
Our company NEPAL TREKKING is an adventure trekking and outdoors organization based in Nepal specialized in mountain climbing, ‘off-the-beaten’ track adventure holidays, overland tours, white water rafting, mountain biking, bungy jumping, ticketing and hotel booking. We have been operating tours and trekking comprehensively in Nepal and also running special tours to India, Tibet and Bhutan since two decades.
For more info
Plz visit our home page and doen’t hesitate to look our albums in the face book and be our friend to know this country.
www.nepalfctrekking.com

Thanks
Raj

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jose.gonzalez@tourismbc.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:23:01 -0000

Great post Chris! Just found read this now. Here's my take:

On our destination marketing organization (dmo) website, we have a blog set up - hellobc.com/blogs. It works well but it does need improvements. One specific improvement is displaying recent comments (as you suggested). I think if users see interaction within the site that may encourage participation. Also adding profile info on our bloggers would help in getting users to identify with our blog personalities and their posts.

One specific social media project that has been a huge success is our field reporter program. We hired field reporters and sent them to various parts of British Columbia (youtube.com/bcfieldreporter). It was a great way to create awareness for our province and it encouraged other community dmo's to participate i.e. either hiring their own or using our field reporter to cover their community.

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@Todd Lucier — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:50:51 -0000

6 Large, for something people can do themselves for like $20/yr. I guess customization is a good thing. I encourage most folks to start with a Free Wordpress Account to get started blogging. Content can easily enough be moved to a hosted wordpress blog for not much more than a few bucks and a customized theme, heck a hundred bucks can get you Thesis to play with.

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ourgeneration — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:29:06 -0000

Chris, just wanted to let you know that I actually made the transition myself(pat on the back) but thanks for the recommendation though. The new site is now on wp at http://www.ourgenerationtra...

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Stephen Joyce — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:34:22 -0000

Excellent post Chris. I'm surprised I didn't see this one earlier. A lot of what you discuss in your post revolves around the central idea of connecting and creating relationships with people. Making the site more interactive, inviting bloggers to interact, encourage sharing of media, all revolve around the central premise of engagement and interaction. This is especially true with tourism sites because tourism is all about experiences and what better way to promote an experience then through the sharing of stories, images, and video.

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virginislandstv — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:31:20 -0000

As someone just getting started in all this, I found your post to be simple, to the point and a lot less daunting than all the rest!! thanks!

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Kelly Stewart — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:06 -0000

Hi Chris

I really enjoyed your session in Wellington at the Marketing Now conference - now I am just trying to digest it all and work out where to from here.

You tips have been very helpful and timely given that we are in the middle of rebuilding our website. i do have many questions as i am tiotally new to this environment so i will keep in touch.

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San Diego Tim — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:15:58 -0000

Great blog post & great comments. Local San Diego tourism groups have been inviting me to share how I use Twitter & Blogs to promote my San Diego travel web site. I see there's still plenty more for me to do and share with others in order to take full advantage of social media.

My recommendation: Don't wait to implement your strategy or you will fall further behind the learning curve. Take steps each day to get ahead of the pack. Otherwise, you will have a very big hill to climb as social media continues to evolve and becomes and ever bigger part of promoting one's business.

- @SanDiegoTim

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Authentic Seacoast Resorts — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:23:40 -0000

Greetings from the Nova Scotia Authentic Seacoast in Atlantic Canada! We loved reading your post, Chris. Some really great ideas we're going to look adding into our social media mix. We have found Twitter to be a great tool for building relationships with potential guests, travel writers, locals, food & wine writers and people interested in coastal living and culture. We have even taken our first reservation on Twitter. We look forward to implementing some of your ideas to get our guests even more engaged in the community we're building online. You can visit us on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/AuthenticCoast

Thanks again for your advice. We look forward to continuing the discussion with you.

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Rich — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:14:36 -0000

great potential engagement ideas...

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jamie — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:02:41 -0000

Hi Chris: My advice to CVBs is pay close attention to the smaller outlets with authentic voice and conversational vibe. My site, www.travelsavvymom.com, may not have the traffic of TripAdvisor (but really, who does?), but my users book trips and hotel stays based on my advice all the time. Those people who find us with a search term that includes the words "family friendly", are usually ready to pull the trigger.

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JulieWilliams — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:56:51 -0000

Excellent timely insight for the current marketplace. Often research places to visit and get similar viewpoint from selling aspect if the website is static, slightly limited on visitor experience. Here's the amazing thing: I came across this post via a tweet ( @SebastianJ ) and before I visited Chris's blog I linked through to Sebastian's blog, to read that he's blogging from Sydney having read his tweet stream, this led me onto to go and 'see it for myself' and that's what interests me about travel-blogs real life/current experiences (live, interactive, visual, appeal)

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Patsy Terrell — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:12:42 -0000

What you say here is so true. I write about places I visit all the time and get questions from people about what they can see/do there. Sometimes that's about the community where I live, and sometimes places I travel to. Our community of Hutchinson Kansas just hosted a blogger fam tour - I had nothing to do with setting it up, but they invited me to participate even though I'm local. It had to have been pretty inexpensive compared to other things tourism folks do. And having people give you essentially word of mouth advertising on blogs, twitter, etc. is priceless. #hutch on twitter

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Deb — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:03:43 -0000

p.s. FAM is short for familiarization

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Deb — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:03:16 -0000

Chris,
I just returned from a FAM tour of Hutchinson KS. They invited 12 bloggers to come down, stay 3 days and see the sites, sounds, food, and fun. @beckymccray, @sheilas, @billgx, @toddvogts, @okiej, @debworks, @wichitacindy, @patsyterrell, @superdumb were the bloggers who made it.

We interviewed, tweeted, blogged, flickred and videoed the town for three days. It was amazing! You can follow some of it at #hutch on search.twitter.com

@codyks was one of the organizers and he set up one of the most amazing tours of a town I've been on. You can bet I'll be sharing our trip with lots of people!

Now the media people could have spent boucoup bucks on a national print ad for the month - in other words, do what they always do. They took a chance and stepped out there into the social media sphere. I believe they got their money's worth!

@debworks

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Sarah Page — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:12:09 -0000

Chris,
You just keep those good ideas coming. I'm in the tourism industry, and though your post is focused on tourism, you prove here that marketing is marketing is marketing. Good, solid marketing concepts can be applied to any industry ... with only a bit of tweaking sometimes.

Your thoughts on tidying up the web presence has been overlooked in the comments so far. Having a visually appealing website that is chock full of good content about a destination is crucial. Making it user-friendly is the next step.

I work with many small, rural chambers of commerce. The staff there wear many hats. Unfortunately, websites are not always a priority. They should be.

I'd like to suggest some great tourism folks for you to follow on Twitter. They know their stuff and consistently have great information to share. Here they are:
@anneh632 - the voice of @VisitChicago
@curtmoss - WebLink International
@oregonkat - voice behind @travelcoosbay
@travelcoosbay - Check out this link (http://allanjenkins.typepad.... Incredible use of social media to promote a destination.

Great post, as always, Chris!

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MickG — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:24:54 -0000

Thanks Chris for a GREAT post. Unfortunately I wasnt at the conference - but wished I had been there :-) It's great to see such a collection of experts in the online field, and nice too that NZ businesses/ organisations are embracing the potential that there is on the web.

Out of interest, and because you mentioned White Island, I'd like to let people know about their Twitter Page - http://twitter.com/whiteisl... -

Being in the Web Marketing Field here in NZ, I helped them recently get started in the right direction by setting them up a Twitter profile, a new blog page - http://whiteislanders.wordp... and also assisting them rework their website.

I'd like to add my own thoughts and ideas to the 'mix' by sharing my own 'stuff'....

- My Website
- My Blog
- My Twitter Page

Thanks again Chris. Have a safe trip back to the States.

Regards
Mick

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Nicola Burgess — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:43:48 -0000

Great post Chris. Thanks. I will be circulating your advice amongst our tourism industry and revamping our website. The Marketing Now! conference was fantastic and I'm completely inspired about the potential for our tourism sector. Next time you're here, I'll know you're here and let's hope you can visit White Island www.whiteisland.co.nz as it's something truly amazing.
Nicola Burgess
Tourism Eastern Bay of Plenty
Whakatane, New Zealand