Comments on: Twitter for Travel and Tourism: Wrapping my head around it

By: RV Ratings

RV Ratings — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:24:41 +0000

yep just twit about it live…

By: Dual Sim Phone

Dual Sim Phone — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:21:13 +0000

nice post

By: Dual Sim Phone

Dual Sim Phone — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:21:13 +0000

nice post

By: Travel

Travel — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:50:52 +0000

This is so interested! Where can I find more like this?

By: holiday_travel_tips

holiday_travel_tips — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:10:30 +0000

I'm so love this blog, already bookmarked it! Thanks.

By: Alicia Whalen

Alicia Whalen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:32:46 +0000

Great post William! this is a hot topic…will keep you posted on anything I come accross – seems that most are still concerned with the time and resources to impliment a strategy around twitter (or any social media strategy for that matter. See you next week in TO

By: Wilhelmus

Wilhelmus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:08:47 +0000

Hi Monika,
I do think tweets need to be personal, but they do need to come from a person, on behalf of the organization. Two twitter account is appropriate, you want the business account to be professional. My Twitter account will never be the Tourism British Columbia account.
But it’s important that a business account doesn’t turn into ‘press release language’. The whole point of Twitter is relationships, and that’s where you need some personality. That’s why Frank Eliason’s name and picture is front and center on the Comcast account.
It’s the same for blogging. The Google blog is very corporate, but there’s always the name of the author at the bottom of each post. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

By: Monika Meurer

Monika Meurer — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:04:06 +0000

Do you really think the tweets should be personal. I am thinking about splitting my tweets into two different accounts, one for the touristic information and one for my personal tweets.
Hotelkrone just did the same! I am not sure, whether tourist want to read my personal stuff like the game #movietwitter
@joebertl maybe we should have a session on it at the Tourismuscamp?!

By: Wilhelmus

Wilhelmus — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:33 +0000

Yeah, that’s a good point. That’s what I observe as well. In that case Twitter becomes a glorified RSS feed. It would be interesting to find out how many people follow the links they post.
It would also be interesting to find out the ratio industry/locals/far away followers. It’s ultimately a network effect so when you reach a certain critical mass things can go quick. I notice that as well with my account.

By: Joebertl

Joebertl — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:51:19 +0000

In the past weeks I was fascinated that chicago, baltimore and other touristboards broke the 1.000 follower wall and are using twitter in fact as a communication tool for their messages.
Most of them I visited use twitter as a further / other possibility to spread new content of their travel-sites, f.e. instead of or similar as RSS. We already do so with our b2b and b2c-blogposts, but the number of followers can be counted on both hands.
The reasons? perhaps because twitter is still not used that intense in good old europe? Or that twitterers like more to pose personal questions to their personal twitter network, simply like a personalized search engine. So, propably DMOs can only be succesful in using twitter if they are part of this network and communicate on a personal level and stop broadcasting. Therefore our automated “new content information” on twitter never might be sucessful. What do you think William?