I had a really great conversation with Barbara Vega, founder of I Heart BackPackers, a tour operator who specializes in backpacking tours all over the World.  During our talk, Barbara wanted to know if I had any suggestions on how to get started with social media and how to improve what she was already doing.  This got me thinking that the best thing I could probably do is put together my top 5 list of things to do to get started with Social...

This is a copy of my presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit.  Ofcourse you lose the audio content that goes with it, but you get the gist. I’ve added an outline of the slides along with some commentary that adds context to the slides. Using Social Media Techniques to Improve Customer Conversion View more documents from Stephen Joyce. Converting the Masses Converting customers using social media strategies. Stephen Joyce, CEO...

This list is sourced from the Uptake Twitter list which can be found at http://www.uptake.com/blog/blogging/the-t-list-does-twitter-join-the-travel-twitterati-beta_239.html.  I wanted to separate it out so that I could generate a TweepML list that would make it easy for you to follow them. UPDATE: To prevent having to maintain two lists, one static and one on the TweepML site, I have decided to remove the list from the post and link directly to...

This list consists of a mix of OTAs and metasearch sites that provide a service to consumers on-line.  Granted there are some sites that probably fit in here that are communities as well, but I am going for just the sites where people would generally book their own travel. You can follow this list with one click by visiting the TweepML list at http://tweepml.org/Travel-Providers-Travel-Metasearch/. Bing Fareologist – @fareologist Expedia –...

For research purposes I have been trying to gather together lists of travel related companies that are using Twitter.  I am slowly but surely putting together some for my own, but hopefully also your, use.  Here is my first list of companies starting with airlines.  If you know of any ideas, please add them to the comments and I will regenerate the TweepML file for this group, in order to make following that much simpler for everyone. You can...