Social Media

June 26, 2020July 2, 2020

Bringing your brand to life with video content

Video, Webinars

Speakers Gareth Davies is MD of The Presenter Studio, a content creation and presenter coaching business.  Gareth has over 20 years experience working in the media – ... Read more

June 2, 2020June 12, 2020

Catch Up – Why now is the best time for social media marketing for tourism and how to do it

Video, Webinars

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 ... Read more

November 2, 2016January 23, 2017

Vine is dead. Long live social video

Social Media

So farewell then Vine, your life has been almost as short as the clips you host. The platform, which enabled users to create short, looped videos of ... Read more

August 26, 2016January 23, 2017

Why do people use social media? The answer is revealed

Social Media

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. ... Read more

June 27, 2016January 23, 2017

How Social Media Is Being Deployed At Euro 2016

Social Media

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 ... Read more

April 1, 2016January 23, 2017

The only way is video

Social Media

I think this is a UK first: there is a drone film festival in London in May. It is essentially a drinks event with awards attached: 10 ... Read more

March 21, 2016January 23, 2017

Is the tourist board irrelevant in the digital world?

Social Media

I often wonder whether we are seeing the end-game for the traditional tourist board or destination marketing organisation (DMO). Tourism boards and destination marketing organisations have been ... Read more

March 4, 2016January 23, 2017

Social media analytics: be careful what you choose

Social Media

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, ... Read more

February 22, 2016January 23, 2017

Five ways to save time on social media

Social Media

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 ... Read more

February 8, 2016January 23, 2017

Find a friend in Iceland through social media

Social Media

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 ... Read more

December 9, 2015June 2, 2020

Jump into the stream: Facebook trials live video

Social Media

I can’t emphasise this enough – if you are not using video yet, you had better start soon. Video’s rise has been stratospheric this year. In its ... Read more

November 4, 2015February 2, 2017

Yes minister: social media has revolutionised tourism branding

Press Releases, WTM London

“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 ... Read more

October 7, 2015January 23, 2017

Social media helps business to bloom in British tourism

Social Media

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 ... Read more

September 25, 2015January 23, 2017

What’s not to dislike about Facebook’s new plan?

Social Media

This week there has been a lot of talk about Facebook introducing a dislike button. Even James Corden on the Late Late Show has an opinion on ... Read more

September 24, 2015January 23, 2017

Tip for working with bloggers

Blogging

Last month saw one of the periodic incidents where a disagreement between blogger and brand relations caused it to go mini-viral among the blogger community and those ... Read more

September 4, 2015January 23, 2017

Square, us? Instagram makes its photo size rule obsolete

Social Media

You can’t keep Instagram out of the news. Already the brightest star in the social media firmament, IG is generating ever more heat this summer. I wrote ... Read more

July 10, 2015June 2, 2020

Making money out of Instagram

Social Media

Instagram remains the current darling of social media, its star rising as brands clamour for attention in the best photogenic social platform on the market. The ability ... Read more

June 22, 2015January 23, 2017

Are you on top of the newest Twitter features?

Social Media

Destinations, attractions and other tourism businesses will soon be able to promote themselves even better on Twitter thanks to a new feature being tested by the microblogging ... Read more

June 11, 2015January 23, 2017

Instagram redesign: revolution or evolution?

Social Media

Instagram’s website has been redesigned. On the face of it, that’s very nice but there’s not a lot to shout about. It does look better, certainly. Only ... Read more

May 22, 2015January 23, 2017

Facebook’s Instant Articles: threat and opportunity for travel?

Social Media

How often have you clicked on a link to an article on your Facebook feed only to sit for what seems like an eternity before something shows ... Read more

May 5, 2015January 23, 2017

Tourism Attractions Should Embrace Social Media

Social Media

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 ... Read more

April 20, 2015June 2, 2020

Is it time to flip the funnel?

Blog, Social Media

In one of the many presentations made at our inaugural Social Travel Britain conference in Salisbury over the past few days, Dr Philip Alford of Bournemouth University ... Read more

March 23, 2015January 23, 2017

Does #OreoEclipse mean we are hashtagged out?

Social Media

They were first spotted in 2007. They were given the official thumbs-up in 2009. Now they are everywhere. You cannot escape. By they, I mean hashtags. I ... Read more

February 17, 2015May 18, 2020

How Japan is using bloggers to attract tourists

Blogging

The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) has just launched a high-profile campaign working with three bloggers – Kash Bhattacharya of Budget Traveller (budgettraveller.org/), Abigail King of Inside ... Read more

February 4, 2015January 23, 2017

Facebook adds travel tips to Newsfeed

Social Media

In the past week, Facebook has made it’s latest attempt to grab a bigger share of the geolocation market with the launch of Place Tips. These nuggets ... Read more

December 29, 2014June 2, 2020

#justonerhino shows bloggers and companies can collaborate for conservation

Blog, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

100 bloggers are writing a blog each over 100 days to raise funds for rhino conservation. Might the #justonerhino campaign show a way media and the travel ... Read more

December 17, 2014January 23, 2017

Social Media: bye bye fictitious figures

Social Media

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) ... Read more

December 3, 2014January 23, 2017

Get earned or get burned: the Oreo vlogger ruling

Social Media

A ruling by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority last week threatens to remove a key plank from the content marketing strategies of travel companies. The ruling rapped Mondelez, the ... Read more

November 22, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Germany in Numbers

Infographics

Social Germany: the art of embracing social media Check out the report here. ... Read more

November 22, 2014June 15, 2020

Social Germany: the art of embracing social media

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

November 17, 2014January 24, 2017

Get in touch with your customer

Technology

At WTM last week, I was running my Genesys Sessions seminar programme on the Tuesday.  I had three speakers in each session covering the subjects of mobile, ... Read more

October 28, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Shanghai in Numbers

Infographics

Social Shanghai: The Great Firewall and the Chinese platforms Check out the report here. ... Read more

October 28, 2014June 15, 2020

Social Shanghai: The Great Firewall and the Chinese platforms

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

October 27, 2014January 24, 2017

How delegates can engage with the WTM Social Media Team

Social Media

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. ... Read more

October 22, 2014January 24, 2017

Will Storify enter the Room 101 of digital travel?

Social Media, Technology

I don’t know how I feel about Storify. I mean, we’ve been together for two years now and I’ve never been let down. Yes, I’ve dumped others. ... Read more

October 9, 2014January 24, 2017

Have we reached peak InstaMeet? Queensland breaks the record

Social Media, Technology

We spoke in our last blog post about why Instagram was the star social performer for 2014. Just this week, we have heard how the Australian state ... Read more

September 24, 2014January 24, 2017

Instagram: the star social performer of 2014

Social Media

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 ... Read more

September 10, 2014January 24, 2017

Valuable thoughts and takeaways from key sessions at TBU Nantes

Blogging, Social Media

TBU Nantes, our sixth (!) blogging and social media conference ended last week after three days of networking, learning and discovery. I was particularly proud of the ... Read more

September 9, 2014January 24, 2017

From Ice Buckets to Bucket Lists: social goes commercial

Social Media

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 ... Read more

August 29, 2014January 24, 2017

Facebook cracks down on the click-baiters

Social Media

It’s called click-baiting, whereby fantastically humorous quizzes await those who link through and then (usually) share the results with friends on Facebook. In this case, ‘Canvey Island ... Read more

August 22, 2014January 24, 2017

Reputation is Everything

Social Media, Technology

Image: Dilbert Some news in the last few days has reminded me of one of the subjects I was addressing at my World Travel Market seminar back ... Read more

August 20, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Denmark in Numbers

Infographics

Social Denmark: it’s all about recommendations Check out the report here. ... Read more

August 20, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Denmark: it’s all about recommendations

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

August 13, 2014January 24, 2017

What is the ROI of social media?

Social Media

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 ... Read more

July 31, 2014January 24, 2017

The splintered picture in travel and social media

Aviation, Social Media

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 ... Read more

July 17, 2014January 24, 2017

Using Twitter for Twitter stats

Social Media

In preparing monthly reports for travel clients on how well their social media is faring, I’m a fan of Twitonomy in gathering data on Twitter. It gives ... Read more

July 7, 2014September 18, 2017

How to make a difference using social media marketing for tourism

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

Social Media gives travel companies an incredible opportunity. How can we use the tools better and provide leadership as well as noise? ... Read more

July 2, 2014January 24, 2017

The anatomy of a perfect blog post

Blogging

They say that email marketing is dead. That the opening rates are so low, that you do your brand more damage than good by abseiling into an ... Read more

June 23, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Qatar in Numbers

Infographics

Social Qatar: Watching the World Cup with interest Check out the report here. ... Read more

June 23, 2014June 2, 2020

Social Qatar: Watching the World Cup with interest

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

June 18, 2014February 13, 2015

Newsjacking the #worldcup

Social Media

If you are on Twitter, you won’t need any introduction to the concept of newsjacking. It is the, some say shameless, practice of jumping on board something ... Read more

April 28, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Cape Town in Numbers

Infographics

Social Cape Town: A City That ‘gets’ Social Media Check out the report here. ... Read more

April 28, 2014March 23, 2015

Social Cape Town: A City That ‘gets’ Social Media

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

March 17, 2014June 2, 2020

Why you need to stop selling tourism products (and start telling better travel stories)

Blog, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

A new report says top trends for travel 2014 include ‘green’ and ‘meaningful’. How can responsible tourism businesses capture this growing market? ... Read more

February 18, 2014February 12, 2015

Social Media Report: The Silk Road

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more

October 7, 2013February 12, 2015

Social Media Report: Turkey

Reports, Social Media

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 ... Read more