Let’s start with your existing tours. Seems like every destination has a paper brochure for a walking tour or something similar. Here are eight ways to post that same content, reach new potential visitors, and make your site easier to find in searches. See, different types of people visit different places online. So every different…
Sheila Scarborough and I were happy to connect with Australian Des Walsh to talk tourism for our Tourism Currents listeners. I thought you’d enjoy it as well. Des Walsh(cc) by trib Des attended some presentations on the Tourism Queensland project, The World’s Best Job. He joins us with some thoughts on what went right, what…
Tourism has more to gain from social media marketing than any other industry. That’s my opinion. It’s also why Sheila Scarborough and I created Tourism Currents. Two quick updates from Tourism Currents: We’re getting close to reopening the courses to a new round of students. If you want to know more about how to use…
Last week, a simple Facebook post about tourism turned into an impromptu brainstorming session. Let’s add to it. Here’s the original post, a tweet I borrowed from @Miss_Dazey: from @Miss_Dazey: “Personal opinion: Small businesses should promote tourism. Tourists like neat local places, don’t always know about them.” Becky McCray Karen Hoeltzel Payne and Deb During…
In July 2009, I attended the High Plains Resource Conservation and Development Board meeting in Taloga, Oklahoma. While I was officially there to present their new website, I couldn’t help learning and taking notes. Dr. Larry Sanders from Oklahoma State University spoke about wide ranging rural business issues, including marketing, entrepreneurship, retaining youth, and tourism….
West Virginian Ben Curnett took time out at SOBCon to talk about small business, tourism, and small towns. How can our unique geography unite, rather than divide us? Find Ben on Twitter: @bencurnettand at Matterhorn Marketing. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates.
You have local traditions and things you take for granted; things that your visitors would love to be part of. Here’s an example from outside Nassau, Bahamas, that could have been from your small town. In the evening, locals come out to the beach along Arawack Cay. They stroll, they feed the gulls, they sit…
Right now, people are visiting your area, and they are shooting video of your best events and attractions. They may upload it to their own account, share it on Facebook, or let it languish on their hard drive. How can you turn that into a big asset? Video cameras are getting smaller all the time!…
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