Most holidaymaker choose their holiday destinations based on discussions with family and friends as well as influencers on social media platforms. That’s according to the travel professionals surveyed by World ... Read more
Social media influencers are inspiring one in five young travellers to head off on holiday – but their impact drops dramatically over the generations, new research shows. A poll carried ... Read more
In an hyperconnected digital world, social media sites offer massive chances and tools for destinations to engage with travellers and help them travel safely again.
Deals publisher and inspiration brand Holiday Pirates has shared some of its social media secrets with the Travel Forward Virtual audience. Nick Cooper, head of the UK, told the audience ... Read more
When it comes to communicating hygiene protocols and safety measures, it’s important to talk directly to your target audience. Social media gives you that opportunity, if you get it right ... Read more
Speakers Lizanne founded Eco Africa Digital so that she could live out her two passions – ecotourism and online marketing. Her team has helped numerous tourism businesses grow their online ... Read more
*by Dre Nascimento Understand how to think about attractive publications for the public in the tourism sector without being sensationalist during the coronavirus pandemic Since the middle of March, the ... Read more
Content is king on social media – and WTM London will be discovering why it reigns supreme and reveal the secrets to success. Across the three days of WTM London ... Read more
Blunt force trauma is a medical term which describes an injury caused when an object hits or strikes a body. These days, social media has pretty much the same effect. ... Read more
A survey of more than 100 travel brands has found more than 90% use Facebook as a marketing tool and similar number e-newsletters, with 20% saying they no longer issued ... Read more
The increasing importance of social media – particularly Instagram, the challenge of managing tourism in popular cities and social enterprise all formed topics on the Global Stage on Day One ... Read more
WE are delighted to be back at World Travel Market to deliver seven world-class seminars on the best use of social media in today’s travel and tourism industry. The pace ... Read more
England had its hottest summer ever this year, while the UK as a whole equalled previous highs set since records began in 1910. The heatwave lasted 46 days, from June ... Read more
The scandal around the use of data harvested on Facebook has caused many people to reassess their use of the social networking site and saw the rise of the #DeleteFacebook ... Read more
By Kathi Everden A golf challenge on the opening day, VIP evening preview, lunch time closures and public days … it was all very different when Arabian Travel Market kicked off ... Read more
One of the most common questions you’ll get at many blogging and influencer conferences these days from new content creators is “what advice would you give someone starting out today?”. ... Read more
For three years from 2014-17, I looked after a lot of social media accounts. It was the phase where travel companies knew they had to have social, but had no ... Read more
The concept of the “curate’s egg” was first used in the British satirical magazine Punch by George du Maurier in November 1895. The curate was too timid to complain of ... Read more
This year, the Faroe Islands won. Their victory highlighted, yet again, the importance of setting out on a project with a clear strategy. Because there are many ways to use ... Read more
How destinations market themselves as social media grows in importance will be a key topic at WTM London 2017, the leading global event for the travel industry. The issue will ... Read more
Among this summer’s slew of stories about overtourism, one took a slightly different angle. In an article titled 10 tourist destinations ruined by Instagram, the Independent reported how “the rise ... Read more
Tourism associated with gigs and music festivals like Glastonbury is now big business. UK Music’s Wish You Were Here study in 2016, revealed that music tourism generated £3.7 million in ... Read more
It’s easy as a blogger to find yourself chasing your own tail scrambling to keep up with the latest social media platform and focusing on your follower numbers. Amongst all ... Read more
Last week, a village in Switzerland got loads of press coverage for banning tourists from taking photos of its scenery and sharing them on social media. According to the local ... Read more
With the summer season approaching, this should be a cracking year for British holidays. Forecasts say the weakened pound and fragile economic confidence is likely to see more Britons taking ... Read more
It’s been a busy month for the major social networks, with a flurry of new features announced. But who is making the best new features? Facebook effects, Stories and location ... Read more
A lot, according to Visit Britain – and it’s going a long way to disrupting traditional research methods. Will talking to friends, family and colleagues replace other types of recommendation? ... Read more
Instagram is looking forward to 2017 by adding a host of bells and whistles to its increasingly strong dominance of social media channels. While Twitter’s social stock has shrunk, and ... Read more
World Travel Market London 2016, the leading global event for the travel industry, has lined up Facebook’s head of travel, the Instagrammer known as ‘the globe-trotting hunk’ as well as ... Read more
FIVE years ago, Travel Perspective was asked by an online travel agent to help re-write all of its destination content following a big algorithm change by Google. The change, the ... Read more
He’s been described as Instagram’s ‘hottest male traveller’, – and he’s coming to World Travel Market London 2016. Jeremy Jauncey, the founder of Beautiful Destinations, is said to be the ... Read more
How is your gold plated social media strategy shaping up ahead of tonight’s launch of The Olympic Games? Just putting the finishing touches to your schedule of posts to tie ... Read more
Social media has been a key part of this year’s Euro 2016 football championships. Twitter added new features just for the championship, including auto-generated emojis when you use the #EURO2016 ... Read more
I have been attending Arabian Travel Market in Dubai for years – either as an exhibitor, a visitor, or media and always thoroughly enjoyed it. This year though, I was ... Read more
A COUPLE of years ago, I started playing with an analytics tool called Sumall. It’s essentially a site that pulls together social media statistics from all platforms, makes sense of ... Read more
One of the most annoying quirks of Instagram is finally being addressed, bringing an end to a nightmare suffered by social media managers who have to look after multiple accounts. ... Read more
One of the many, many benefits of this technological age is that it has allowed destinations to put themselves on the map in a way that they wish to be ... Read more
“The rules of the game have changed and the consumer is in command.” That was the conclusion from Dr Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization, after today’s ... Read more
Luxury hotels are turning to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to get their properties financed, rather than banks and traditional investment routes, reveals the WTM Global Trends Report 2015, in association with ... Read more
This year’s social media programme at World Travel Market London 2015 takes place across three days and will feature senior executives from Facebook, Twitter and Tripadvisor as well as startups, ... Read more
A COUPLE of years ago, my wife and I made the big move out of London to Dorset to set up a cut flower business. The business plan was that ... Read more
There was a distinct moment when David Coulthard realized he had ‘cracked’ the challenge of encouraging his staff to adopt social media. The marketing manager of Salisbury Cathedral in south-west ... Read more
Over the past five years, bloggers and brands have built fictitious number of real followers. They have bought followers, blindly followed everybody that follows them (without regard) or hashtagged to ... Read more
By the end of 2015, Germany is expected to have the largest number of social media users in western Europe, overtaking the UK in the process, according to eMarketeer. Penetration ... Read more
Leading hotel chains are rewarding guests who use “braggies” to share their experiences on social media, reveals the WTM Global Trends Report 2014, in association with Euromonitor International, released today ... Read more
I came across a great article by Mashable entitled, ‘5 Tips for Using Social Media During Conferences’describing how best to interact when attending conferences using social media. With World Travel ... Read more
This post’s title is a much repeated question and one that is often answered by digital agencies with “What is the ROI of a chair or a phone?” The chair ... Read more
I work with social media in travel every day. Nose down to the grindstone, I don’t sniff the air often enough to always gauge what others are doing. But this ... Read more
There have been a few more blog posts doing the rounds recently announcing the death of the social media consultant. The broad argument goes that, as companies have gotten used ... Read more
In 2009, in the run-up to the World Cup, Cape Town Tourism rolled out its first digital tourism marketing strategy. Five years later, the city is now widely recognised as ... Read more
Social media is now an important part of the marketing mix for African travel organisations. The vast majority of businesses now have some form of social media presence. My company, ... Read more
Screenshot by Jennifer Van Grove/CNET There’s an old saying in journalism that goes like this: One is interesting, two is co-incidence, three is a blog post. That is to say, ... Read more
The connected Silk Road It would be easy to think that the Silk Road – the traditional trade route linking Europe and Asia that brings to mind images of searing ... Read more
General overview of Social Media, internet and communications in Turkey There is a huge appetite for digital media in Turkey, despite home internet access being among the lowest in Europe. ... Read more
Summer has been normally the quiet time of year, when everyone in the travel industry is on holiday with the rest of the country. But there’s been a sea change. ... Read more
Continuing demand for Covid-safe travel is expected to fuel a boom in holidaymakers getting away in their own car in 2022, so they can socially distance and keep contact with ... Read more
Hosted on Day 1 of World Travel Market Africa, the Travel and Tourism Media Insight Forum, sponsored by National Geographic, will bring together key decision-makers from destinations -both global and regional – media ... Read more
Messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are a shady place. Lots of stuff gets shared around in these private places. That’s kind of annoying if you work in ... Read more
A startup backed by one of Eastern Europe’s leading entrepreneurs will be showing visitors to its stand at Travel Forward how blockchain can help solve many of the problems inherent ... Read more
For the life of me, I fail to understand why a travel and tourism site starts a blog or a social media channel if it can’t maintain it. Mitigating circumstances ... Read more
For my latest blog, I am delighted to interview the passionate founder of Earth Changers, Vicky Smith. Like me, Vicky is passionate about empowering women through sustainable tourism and giving ... Read more
The WTM Agency Pavilion is set to become a hive of activity as companies involved in media, PR, marketing and related services jump to secure a presence in this exciting ... Read more
The WTM Agency Pavilion is set to become a hive of activity as companies involved in media, PR, marketing and related services jump to secure a presence in this exciting ... Read more
Variety of halal food in the hotel, list of nearby mosques and nearby halal restaurants score heavily 35,000 Muslim travellers participate in Sociable Earth’s survey on Halal Tourism Key results ... Read more
Sessions on intelligent travel, Blockchain and Facebook were among highlights on the final day of the Travel Tech Show at WTM London on Wednesday 9 November. Specialists shared how ... Read more
Social followers: a numbers game When it comes to working with digital Influencers over social media, top line numbers are still the first thing that many brands, destinations and agencies ... Read more
One of Britain’s newest tourism attractions has opened in County Durham this summer and its organisers are hoping to match some of the success of Puy du Fou, France’s fourth ... Read more
by Tony Fields, General Manager at TTG MENA 1) How important is the role of a travel trade media publication in the motivation of the tourism industry? The role of ... Read more
Google’s first results page has come a long way since the company launched 17 years ago. When we first started using that rather clever search engine, the page it threw ... Read more
It used to be easy, video was the reserve of TV advertisements, documentaries and films; whilst “going viral” was limited to that time your Nan got stuck in a rubber ... Read more
When China and social media appear in the same sentence, the first thing a Westerner often thinks is that they are banned. This is all down to something known colloquially ... Read more
Let’s put video to one side for a moment. But if you accept that images are very important to your social media strategy, then Instagram has to be near the ... Read more
You cannot fail to have noticed the Ice Bucket Challenge videos that have been filling our Facebook news feeds over the summer. According to Facebook, between 1 June and 1 ... Read more
Throughout Denmark, at 50 popular tourist spots, you will find a sign this summer encouraging visitors to take a photo. Like the photo above. Each sign carries a distinct hashtag, ... Read more
QATAR has more reason to watch the World Cup this year as it looks to Brazil to learn what lessons it can put into practise when hosting the tournament in ... Read more
As the second-largest search engine after Google and the second-most used social media platform, YouTube should not be overlooked when thinking about a potential guest’s customer booking journey.
Whether you’re a travel brand or destination, incorporating Instagram Reels into your social media strategy is a great way to stand out from your competitors.
Whether you’re just setting up your brand’s social media handles, or you’ve been on Instagram for a while, having a hashtag strategy is key to increasing the visibility of your ... Read more
In an era where social media is revolutionising how people experience the world, RX, a global leader in exhibitions, unveils its latest report, The Power of Influence. This report sheds ... Read more
The final day of WTM London 2024 saw comedian and travel show presenter Katherine Ryan delivering the closing keynote with a speech referencing resilience, risks and rawdogging. Ryan’s speech ended ... Read more
In a packed World Travel Market London session on digital marketing trends, Dan Christian, host of the popular Travel Trends podcast revealed the top five trends he had noted from conversations with ... Read more
Sustainable and regenerative tourism was in the spotlight on the second day of World Travel Market London, along with other key issues such as diversity and digital marketing. Speakers at WTM ... Read more
In today’s interconnected world, expanding into international markets presents both opportunities and challenges for businesses, especially in the travel industry. Every country has its unique cultural, linguistic, and regulatory hurdles ... Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 8 May 2024: In an enlightening session on “How To Build Influence with Gen Z in Just 30 Seconds”, Marc-Antoine Simon, Industry Manager, Travel and ... Read more
By Hafsa Gaher, Founding Partner and Director at Archer & Gaher Adventures Travel has always been about discovery. From the out-of-the-box package holiday to the seasoned backpacker, there is always ... Read more
Travel and tourism is one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing industries in the world. As such, much like any sector, it is faced with its own challenges. One ... Read more
Sustainability and specialist travel topped the agenda for the final day of WTM London 23, with a well-known TV documentary maker wowing the audience with a keynote to round off ... Read more
Day two of World Travel Market London 2023 – the world’s most influential travel and tourism event – saw key topics discussed including diversity and inclusion, the future of travel ... Read more
It’s a well-known piece of marketing advice that the best way to run any kind of successful campaign is to have a very clear understanding of who the intended audience ... Read more
*By Simon Mayle, Event Director ILTM North America, ILTM Latin America & Proud Experiences Our raison d´etre at PROUD Experiences is to ensure everyone feels like they belong everywhere when ... Read more
Greece will again have a high profile at World Travel Market London (November 6-8, 2023) – the world’s most influential travel & tourism event – as the destination will showcase ... Read more
In today’s digital landscape, establishing a strong digital presence has become imperative for businesses across all industries. However, this is especially important in the travel sector which is built upon ... Read more
By Tom Mcloughlin, Founder, SEO Travel Community building is a marketing approach that has been getting more and more attention in recent years. Consumer priorities and values are changing, and ... Read more