Social Media

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How governments can improve travel safety alerts through technology and social media

By Viewpoints | December 13, 2011

In the last few years we've had tsunamis, Sars, earthquakes, floods, terrorism, country-wide strife, strikes and, of course, Eyjafjallajoekull, which created a worldwide ash cloud panic. Read More

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Travel startups should go big or go home - oh really?

By Alex Bainbridge | December 13, 2011

Despite every startup claiming to be approaching a problem in a different way, you can actually divide them into four categories. Read More

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KLM social seating initiative fun but potentially fraught

By Linda Fox | December 12, 2011

KLM's latest plan to allow people to choose who they sit next to according to social media profiles sounds like fun in theory Read More

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What blogs and apps can really do for travel websites

By Linda Fox | December 12, 2011

Social media experts are forever extolling the SEO, brand visibility, traffic driving and conversion benefits of user-generated content for travel websites Read More

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Travel marketing firms merge to create MMGY Global, claim biggest in the world

By Kevin May | December 9, 2011

It's not just constant chatter around the industry about consolidation of suppliers and intermediaries - those spending the industry's marketing money are also joining forces. Read More

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Between Alec Baldwin and New Jersey governor, not a great week for airline and hotel staff

By Dennis Schaal | December 8, 2011

Between the ranting tweets of actor Alec Baldwin and the Occupy Wall Street-targeted New Jersey governor Chris Christie, it wasn't a great week for airline flight attendants and hotel waiters and... Read More

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How airlines use Twitter - November 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | December 8, 2011

November 2011 saw a sizeable jump in the number of tweets mentioning the most popular airlines on Twitter, with 53,400 received by the top three compared to 46,400 the previous month. Read More

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Footprints and Passports with Purpose: two ways to give back

By Gene Quinn | December 8, 2011

Tnooz has considered for some time how to create a corporate social responsibility policy. As a first step, we've decided to support two projects that started small and have big visions: Footprints and... Read More

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What else? Flybe, TrustYou, NineMSN and LocalGuiding

By PhocusWire | December 8, 2011

Flybe and the weather forecast, TrustYou and the integrated social survey, NineMSN and the while label travel search, LocalGuiding and the helping hand for locals and users. A round-up of other stories... Read More

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Airlines tap into Instagram photo craze

By Kevin May | December 7, 2011

It was only a matter of time before travel companies realised the massive Instagram community could be useful with promotions and getting content for websites. Read More

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How hotels can make a difference in destination search on Google

By Viewpoints | December 6, 2011

Hotel distribution changes every ten years. In the 1980s it was the GDS, in the 1990s the emergence of tour operators like TUI and Thomas Cook, and in the 2000s the adoption of the web and online travel... Read More

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TLabs Reprise - HotelPeeps 12 months on

By Kevin May | December 6, 2011

HotelPeeps is a Romania-based hotel search and booking service with a social twist, which first featured on Tnooz in July 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months? Read More

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New Zealand targets youth in latest social marketing campaign

By Linda Fox | December 5, 2011

Tourism New Zealand is calling on the travelling youth to say what they would trade for the chance to win one of six two-week holidays to the destination. Read More