Petra Nemcova sur Twitter : "I can't wait to take stage with amazing @PeterSGreenberg & speak about #travel, #tourism & smart actions @5pm @WTTC. Aivar Ruukel sur Twitter : "Five Stages of Travel by #Google #travel #tourism #customerjourney #mobile #digital #local. 5 Stages of Travel Interactive Infographic. VisitWilshire Tops English Tourism Social Media Index. Social photography: visual social media. The Future of Travelling: Top Social Media Options for Tour Operators. Tourism, Social Media + You. Finding Bloggers Who Fit Your Destination. Programme. Tourism Leaders Call for New Global Voice for Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Development. The Big Business of Food Tourism and Why It Matters.
Last week, we launched a new FREE Skift Travel Trends Report, The Rise of Food Tourism, brought to you in association with Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance.
Below is an extract from it. You can download the full report here for all the goodness. Food tourism tells the story of a destination’s history, culture, and people. Over the last decade, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) have leveraged the rise of mainstream interest in food to open new consumer markets and drive business to a wider range of regional travel suppliers working in the food and beverage (F&B) sector.
Ramsar wetland tourism. Turkey to subsidize flights of Russian tourists. AdventureEDU sur Twitter : "Building the Next Golden Age in Travel & Hospitality #digitalmarketing #tourism #trends. Building the Next Golden Age in Travel & Hospitality. In 2011 when my SocialCRM startup was acquired, I did what many who’ve been through the startup acquisition roller coaster do: I took a trip to a distant country.
For my family and me, a two-week tour of Turkey was sufficiently exotic and transformational. They say that travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer; our trip to Turkey was a case in point. I’ve always had a passion for travel, and for digital marketing and innovation. When presented with the opportunity to join the marketing/E-commerce team at United Airlines, the decision was simple because it brought my passion for travel and digital marketing into perfect unison.
Today, my latest journey as part of Adobe’s industry strategy and marketing team enables me to collaborate with some of the best travel and hospitality leaders worldwide. Over the past several years I’ve had the privilege of having a front-row seat in driving marketing change and innovation. The business of travel and hospitality is complex. Responsible Tourism: Whose Responsibility Is It to Educate Travelers? During last week's Responsible Tourism Twitter Chat (#RTTC), which was around the theme "Indigenous communities and responsible tourism", I came across and discussed this question: Who’s responsible for educating travelers about responsible behavior?
We All Need to Be Responsible, But Are We Doing Enough? In our mini-chat about this question that happened within the #RTTC chat, I suggested that the responsibility likely lies on and should be shared by all stakeholders including source markets, destinations, tour operators, as well as guides and hosts. An important aspect of this answer, as pointed our by Roberta Kravette of Wildlife Destinations, is that we as travelers are also responsible for educating ourselves. ECOCLUB.com - International Ecotourism Club: network for an ecological & socially just tourism - since 1999. Watch This Free Webinar on Using Twitter to Increase Travel and Tourism. Why Responsible Tourism? From providing cost savings to increasing economic stability and ensuring the long-term appeal of a destination, responsible tourism practices simply make good business sense.
Since the mid 1990s there has been a shift towards defining economic performance in terms of the “triple bottom line” – growth that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. Responsible Tourism addresses this shift by giving equal weight to the economy, society and the environment – the three pillars of sustainable development. The drive towards corporate citizenship has also forced responsibility and accountability to the top of business agendas. Subscribe to Email Digests. The Best Travel Content On The Web. Mobile website for travel and tourism - what to look out for. Did you know… In 2014, 50% of web traffic will come via mobile devices.
Is your current web presence ready to support this phenomenal growth? This article will help you assess & improve your business’ mobile marketing strategy and is based on the presentation that Adam gave last night at Mooloolaba for the members of Tourism Sunshine Coast: Mobile optimisation / responsive design workshop – Sunshine Coast Mobile Marketing for Tourism This is the presentation that Adam gave to tourism operators. To get started, think about which of the below components of online marketing is the most important to your customers. Aivar Ruukel sur Twitter : "Keynote: Tom Baum - Demographic #change and the #tourism workforce: time-bomb or opportunity? #21ctw @TourismStudies. Indigenous peoples and cultural tourism: observations from a case study. One arena in which indigenous peoples are being encouraged to become more active in their communities is with regard to ‘cultural tourism’.
Heritage sites are springing up across the world, catering for the interests of local and foreign visitors keen to hear stories of alternative lifestyles in communities hitherto marginalised. Government aid is frequently provided, for these sites have the potential to bring employment, pride and engagement in regions that might need such a boost. This is a well-known phenomenon with much to commend, although it is always worth questioning the extent to which this really benefits the indigenous people concerned? This article is based on fieldwork I carried out at the ‘Xatsull Heritage Village’ in British Columbia, Canada in the summer of 2013. The village is run by members of the Shuswap Nation and is accredited by The Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia (AtBC). #Tourism Edition.
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The report provides insight into the close relation between adventure tourism and responsible tourism. ATTA, a UNWTO Affiliate Member, has provided key input in this report to help increase awareness among the global tourism sector on the core values of responsible tourism. The report allows all tourism stakeholders to work from a common base of understanding in one of the most progressive forms of tourism, which both organizations believe will develop into the industry standard. “This report provides critical insight into one of the most dynamic segments driving tourism´s growth,” said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai. Watch: Report Announcement at the Adventure Travel World Summit. Aivar Ruukel sur Twitter : "TODAY: Join us on Responsible #Tourism and Parks #Hangout hosted by @ronmader #nationalparks. Responsible Tourism and Parks – Google+ Aivar Ruukel sur Twitter : "@MrEtourisme looking forward to your presentation about #collaborative economy for #tourism , today at #EDENmeet.
Finno-Ugric cuisine and tourism. Good enough? Improving coverage of indigenous tourism #ipw4. We are off to a swell start for Indigenous Peoples Week.
I judge the success of an event by two factors: how surprised I am by what others share and how pleased I am by making contact with old friends. Hanging out yesterday with Anders Karrstedt, he suggested we evaluate the week by how many new participants we can coax online. I agree it’s vital that to expand indigenous tourism we need to get more people talking about this, asking questions and sharing examples. It’s all up to you. Please remember that Indigenous Peoples Week serves multiple communities: there are localized indigenous guides, artisans, community leaders seeking tips on making tourism an effective force for economic growth.
Today’s hangout asks whether our media coverage of indigenous tourism is good enough. Specific request: Please show us something curated – a Flickr gallery, Flipboard magazine, a Pinterest album, a story on Storify, a YouTube playlist. Buzzwords: curate, digital literacy, digital inclusion. How Rwanda's gorillas are helping to sustain entire communities. Rwanda's mountain gorillas are found along the country's border with Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Photograph: Getty Console Nyirabatangana sits on a stool outside her three-bedroom house preparing the evening meal and, as the sun sets over Volcanoes national park in north-west Rwanda, she reflects on another day of being thankful. Facing the towering peaks that have in many ways contributed to her wellbeing, Nyirabatangana is in a hurry to have dinner ready in time for her family. She cuts tomatoes and onions, and peels Irish potatoes, all from her garden. With a smile, she sings along to a song on the radio.
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Letter from: art, tourism and singing grannies in the village of Buranovo - The Calvert Journal. Buranovo is a modest village of 600 inhabitants close to the city of Izhevsk in central Russia.
It achieved fleeting prominence a couple of years ago as the home town of the Buranovo Grannies (Buranovskiye Babushki), the singing pensioners who charmed judges on the Eurovision song contest in 2012. For the most part it is a place untroubled by fame. Wild strawberries grow in the fields and hills and there’s a river nearby that’s perfect for fishing. Last summer I travelled from Moscow to meet the artist Zoya Lebedeva, who was staying at her parents’ house, which she has turned into a museum dedicated to her family history and the Stalinist Purges. Lebedeva chiefly uses basket weaving as the basis of her work. Lebedeva is one such artist. Summer kitchen Part of an exhibition in Zoya Lebdeva’s family museum Zoya Lebedeva’s house and her family museum Artist Zoya Lebedeva How Lebedeva makes her floral cloths The washing drying in the village. What Role for Facebook in the Online Travel Landscape?
Love it or loathe it, Facebook continues to be an important player in the travel sphere, as was recently highlighted in its list of the year’s most popular topics, events and places. In fact, travel came in second position of most talked-about events we share with our network. Here are the top 10 shared events worldwide in 2013: 1. Added a relationship, got engaged or got married 2.
Stanford scientists making good use of those vacation photos you posted online (Constantine Alexander's blog) Scientists use social media – vacation photos from Flickr – to study how people use natural areas for tourism and recreation. By Elizabeth Rauer Photo by Elizabeth Rauer Scientists affiliated with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University have found a way to use photo-sharing site Flickr to measure where and when people are using natural areas for recreation and tourism.
This information can help measure the benefits and value that these areas provide to society. Tourism is big industry, contributing $6 billion a year to the world economy, and it's expected to grow to $10 billion over the next 10 years. Tapping into the big data collected by social media sites, researchers at the Natural Capital Project utilized information from 1.4 million geo-tagged images in Flickr, and the user profiles associated with them, to see where people were going and where they were coming from.
Citation: Spencer A. Contact: Elizabeth Rauer, Communications Manager, Natural Capital Project. Instagram. World Indigenous Leaders Officially Join the Dialogue on Adventure Tourism. Written By: Nicole Petrak The 2012 Adventure Travel World Summit was followed immediately by the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (WINTA) Forum, a one-day panel brought to Lucerne in collaboration with the ATTA. WINTA was founded to create and support an international network of indigenous individuals and groups dedicated to tourism development. This first-ever forum brought thought leaders from indigenous and sustainable tourism communities together to address values, challenges and opportunities, as well as explore best practices in indigenous tourism communities worldwide.
Open to the public, the WINTA Forum was attended by Summit delegates and media attendees as well as locals and students. The following speakers commented on the success of the Forum and addressed the subject of the adventure tourism industry as a whole. Keith Henry, CEO, Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia, Canada (spoke on Working with Diverse Indigenous Cultures):
Aivar Ruukel Trending. Social media and tourism in protected areas. Tourism Model presented in Euracademy.
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