Solimar International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

But the explosion of social media platforms between 2006 and 2010 connected individuals around the world like never before, paving the way for another industry upheaval under social media marketing. Read on to learn the history of how social media changed the tourism industry. Let’s rewind to 2004.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Local SEO for the Travel Industry Local SEO is crucial for travel and tourism websites because potential visitors often search for specific locations. Build Your Local Citations Ensure your business name, address, and phone number (NAP) are consistent across your website, social media profiles, and online directories.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One of the easiest ways to kill your upsell opportunities is to make participants visit your website’s multiple locations. Ensure your website has recent blogs, videos, and podcasts highlighting your event. “Members tend to walk right by them,” stated Corporate Partnership and Sponsorship Consultant Bruce Rosenthal.

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Conference Sponsors Trade Show SEO 279

Tourism eSchool

AUGUST 31, 2021

10 Steps to Successfully Promote your Tourism Event on Social Media. If so, social media is a fantastic low cost way to let people know about and book tickets for your event. However, too often we see smaller events not making full use of social media to inspire new people to attend their events.

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Endless Events

JUNE 24, 2020

Event Website. Very basic stuff when it comes to digital marketing for your event website, but also inside your platform. And it shows the sponsor’s agenda so they can book a meeting with them. Social Media. Leading up to the conference, you communicate with people via social. Simple, easy ideas.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Poll your social media followers or previous event attendees to ask why they don’t download event apps. Don’t forget to promote the app via social media, email, and your website, so you reach as many attendees as possible. . Try these 11 tips to persuade more attendees to try your event app.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JULY 12, 2022

We all saw travel decrease dramatically in 2020 as flights and bookings were canceled due to COVID-19. However, even though domestic flights have increased so far for 2022, bookings have decreased by 2.3 Higher fares seem to play a significant part in the booking deficit. percent per month , according to Adobe Analytics.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While our focus on this guide is how to use social media to promote our events, we’ll also need to consider the other available channels and best practices. Have a Professional Event Website. Easy way to register and book your tickets with clear ticket pricing information. Social Media Event Promotion: Tips and Tricks.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Communication channels include the event website, registration page, confirmation/welcome emails, pre-event instructions, event signage, nametags, programs and table tents. This makes it easier for those of us who love live-tweeting events as a means of taking notes and sharing key takeaways with our social media followers.

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Dana Communications

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Chatbots on your website and social media channels assist guests with common questions, provide recommendations and even allow them to directly book rooms. Guest Apps: Properties can increase engagement and satisfaction AND boost bookings with a flexible, functional app. The Latest Wi-Fi: What’s in a number?

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Websites use SEO to target specific keywords and move up on the Google search page without promoting anything. According to Social Media Today , many people use search engines for local planning — 64 percent of all Google searches are looking for local information, and 97 percent of online searchers have looked for a local business.

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Leonardo

JANUARY 26, 2022

Most leisure travelers make their final decision on a hotel by visiting its website. Hotels that are part of a larger brand may not have a website to call their own but rather only have a page extension on their brand’s site. Solidify your digital identity with a fresh website. . A dated website will cost you bookings. .

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Website SEO Booking Social Media 96

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI Event Content The generative AI being developed today will do more than take tasks such as creating marketing emails, agendas and registration websites off meeting professional plates so they can do more valuable things. It can turn that conversation into a training module and create blog and social media posts. “We

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2021

Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Misrepresentation : Poachers misrepresent themselves to sell bookings outside of the official hotel block. Unauthorized access, use and selling of data : A poacher may obtain attendee information by unauthorized use of a website or database, or they may purchase data from an unauthorized seller. Limit Access.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Consider booking your AV team prior to your venue. Perhaps you should create an event website!

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2020

Then, use a tool like Calendly to make scheduling and booking easy and simple for both parties. Think of this like a website hosting company, you need to store your website somewhere so the world can see it. Announce the launch of the show on social media and to your email lists of attendees and sponsors.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2023

Hartline suggested putting the snaky symbol on event websites and enlisting speakers to have conversations there to create excitement in advance of an event to get those conversations started. No one has written the rule book yet because it is brand new so feel free to experiment and be seen as leaders. Don’t look for an “expert.”

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Sojern

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Keeping a consistent brand experience helps build awareness of your business and instills trust in your brand, and this goes beyond just the branding on your website. Your branding should remain consistent across social media and your advertising. Showcase the Best of Your Business on Social Media .

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Endless Events

MARCH 29, 2021

” “I think back to a Sonic Foundry media site. You’re paying a little bit for them to host it, but they can usually be embedded in your company’s website. “Is that going to happen through social media? “There’s this really great book called The Holloway Guide to Remote Work.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2018

This can then be embedded on the event website, giving attendees an easy reference. With Airbnb’s link with SiteMinder, hotels can also be booked through the Airbnb Boutique service. This podcast from Social Media Examiner discusses the best ways to create a loyal Facebook following through Groups.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about sourcing speakers, finding sponsors, and booking your venue, but you can’t overlook an often-forgotten component of event planning: event branding. . Website announcements. Social media posts. Everything from your website to your social media should mention the upcoming event. .

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Endless Events

APRIL 10, 2020

If you record the whole thing and then make it available on your website and social media channels, people will keep coming back to it if they didn’t attend when it was happening. You’re actually competing with the whole Internet, books, their kids, and many other things. Record/store the whole event?

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DCI

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With such a fragmented media landscape, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) are asking whether or not a media room is still needed on their destination website. It may seem like travel journalists will just use a search engine or social media to research their stories. And for the Basics.

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ADMEI

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our book, Best Practices in Destination Management , covers three important aspects of risk management that all event planners and DMCs should incorporate into their event strategy. They will likely have local knowledge that helps you book the best venues and vendors, along with negotiating contracts that can help you minimize risks.

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Social Tables

JUNE 17, 2021

By knowing your ideal customer, you can determine the images to feature on your website, the social media channels to focus on, where to spend your advertising budget, and which event trends will be important for your business. How will you communicate the value proposition through your website?

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2018

How chat AI and event apps can tie in with your social media strategy. You might be most familiar with them as the friendly little pop-ups in the bottom corner of a website that offer you assistance. AI matchmaking engines use data from social media profiles of attendees and interpret it in respect to the event.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 16, 2022

Especially if you’re booking multiple rooms at once for your colleagues — or you’ll be jetting off to multiple business meetings around the country — accidents can happen. Here are 13 critical mistakes to avoid the next time you’re booking rooms. Booking Something Cheaper Out of Town. Booking Dates During Peak Season.

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Gavel International

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Most of the social media platforms today have high video content visibility. Main Elements of a Great Social Media Video. Social Platform. It’s essential to know what platform you will be on when you create your video for social media. It’s crucial to create your videos for each platform.

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Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Promote these exclusive offers on all the social media platforms you use. Always include an email list opt-in when you join a new social network. Offer free e-book downloads. E-books attract new subscribers, especially with titles related to other content on your website or in your social media posts.

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Crowdriff

MARCH 8, 2017

Social media contests are more than just a fun excuse to hand out free swag to your followers. We created this step-by-step guide to help DMOs and travel brands maximize the benefits of running a social media contest. Immediate benefits of social media contests. Publish your banner to your website.

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Social Media Media Website Publishing 52

Crowdriff

JULY 17, 2018

They love to plan trips based on the places they see in photos — especially the ones their friends post about on social media. How travelers use social media at every step of a trip (and how DMOs can leverage these trends). Trend 1 |Travelers find trip inspiration on social media.

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Social Tables

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you’re a travel planner setting up your booking strategy or a smart shopper who wants to get the most with your money, you can benefit from early bird registration deals and product offers. Early bird specials are typically available very early in the booking process and most discounts are between 10-25% off standard pricing.

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Social Tables

JUNE 1, 2023

From social media marketing and paid advertising to SEO improvement and event messaging, we cover advertising ideas and marketing strategies for both virtual and live events. On the business or organization’s primary website, link the main event page, or design a unique landing page for the event if one does not already exist.

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Tourism eSchool

JANUARY 15, 2023

Because trust is what your customers need before they will click the “buy now” button on your website and visit your tourism experience. Have a website that works Your website has the potential to be one of your most effective trust builders with your customers. Trust that their money will be well spent.

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Online Social Media Website Advertising 89

Endless Events

AUGUST 17, 2018

Eventbrite has compiled some of the most relevant event statistics across various fronts, from event marketing and promotion to social media and technology. Strategies like selling tickets directly on social media instead of on a ticketing page also got. This Year’s Event Statistics. The numbers are in for this year!

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Leonardo

JULY 8, 2021

As travel enters this new phase of recovery, here is what hospitality brands should be focused on to win bookings over their competitors. . So hospitality providers need to make them feel comfortable enough to complete their booking. Confusion over what services are open or what measures you have implemented will lose bookings.

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