June 2010 – Places to Connect and Learn

Screenshot of Frommer's forum question about Montana travel

Everyone’s always telling you to “connect online” with prospective visitors, fans and supporters (we call them your online champions.) For many, however, the social Web is not familiar territory. “Find some bloggers!” “And some, er, tweeters!” “Maybe a few Facebook-ers!” “And one of those ‘viral video’ nuts, while we’re at it!” It almost sounds as [...]

March 2010 – Tours in Destination Marketing

iPhone earbuds (courtesy Bennigan at Flickr CC)

Welcome to this month’s Tourism Currents newsletter, where we hope to help get your mental idea machines kick-started with a discussion about adding some social media flavor to those familiar tours of your destination or attraction. Yes, we’re talking about souping up that “guide-holding-up-an-umbrella” staple in your destination marketing toolkit, and also helping people “visit,” [...]