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The Impact Of Social Media In The pTravel Marketing Industry
Approximately one‐fifth of leisure travellers worldwide turn to social travellers worldwide turn to social media platforms for inspiration within different categories of their travel planning including: H t l ( %) Hotels (23%) Vacation activities (22%) Attractions (21%) Restaurants (17%) Restaurants (17%)
Source : eMarketer 2013 (referencing research by Redshift Research. y
Read full article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2014/02/07/the‐impact‐of‐social‐media in the travel marketingmedia‐in‐the‐travel‐marketing‐industry
Wh t ill What we will cover
Enabling technologies for Social media channels
Developing a Digital Strategy Tips and resources ‐ how social media can be used to grow and develop your businessbusiness
Feel free to ask questions as Feel free to ask questions as we go
Enabling technologies ... and social g gmedia for Tourism Do you use what your
customers are using?customers are using?
Social media channels for travel businesses
Some questions to get us started: What channels do I choose or
use? E.g. Facebook, You Tube, g
LinkedIn group etc How much time do I need to
spend doing social media? How will I know it is effective? What to do if it is not working? Will you enable your customers Will you enable your customers
to be content creators? Is it important to moderate
and/or respond to posts and/or respond to posts, tweets etc?
7 Popular Social Networking li tiapplications
http://www.facebook.com – IMS, micro blogging
http://twitter.com ‐ short messages
http://www linkedin com Prof network
http://www.pinterest.com ‐ social pins of info
http://www.linkedin.com ‐ Prof. network
http://plus.google.com ‐ Googles version of Facebookand then some e.g. hangout
http://www.tumblr.com ‐ Blogs
http://instagram.com ‐ Photos Derived from eBizMBA
D l i g Digit l St t g Developing a Digital Strategy
Develop and implement a Develop and implement a digital strategy and seek “fit for purpose” tools that apply b i !to your business context!
Do you have a strategy?
Marketing and Sales are two different things!
h l Do you have a plan?
ATDW e‐kit resources ‐ ATDW e kit resources http://tourismekit.atdw.com.au
Ti d Tips and resources
Social aggregation Develop an online Develop an online personality
Dedicated Business Pages ge.g. Facebook business page LinkedIn business Page Twitter business account You Tube business channel You Tube business channel And don’t forget Skype as
an option Create once and publish everywhere
Th k f li t i gThank you for listening
Ian Whitehouse Mobile: +61 421 102 393 Email: [email protected]
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