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As the summer tourism season gets nearer, and marketing campaigns move into high gear, we’re investing in online multimedia to carry our message to our ideal guests.  Maybe your DMO should be too!

This month, we’ve been purchasing studio equipment to put polish on our video and audio and produce our own in-house video. Not only that, but because we know how important it is to tourism industry, we’re helping tourism businesses in our region get the media they need to sell tourism on the Social, Mobile, Media Rich, Here and Now Internet before another Internet buying season moves into full swing.

Getting Great Media

Great Video, audio and photography doesn’t just happen, it takes planning and execution with the tools (hardware and software) and investment (time and money) to get it right.

Sadly, most tourism operators don’t have the money, knowledge or time to create top notch audio and video to promote their business. For those in the CVB, DMO or Meetings and Convention partnership business, now is the time to invest in media production capacity to help your members make the most of the Web.

Don’t have the knowledge to be able to pull it off yourselves, grow relationships with professional production organizations and help make it cost effective for operators to get the photography, videography and audio they need to make the most of the media opportunities they have on the Web.

A Membership Boost

Small businesses are counting on their membership organizations to help them make an impact with their marketing.  By investing in a social media studio and associated services you could help your regional members get a leg up and in the process make your organization more relevant and boost membership.

Note to DMO’s. CVB’s, and other associations. Keep an eye out for new media projects to be streaming forth from South River, Ontario, Canada real soon.  We’ll explain our whole crazy idea and the components necessary to make such a project come to life!

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Is your Twisitor Center open for business?

by Todd Lucier on February 12, 2009

Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project says 11% of American Web users are using status updates like Twitter in December ’08. That’s up 2% from November 08′. If Twitter use continues to rise at just 1%/month, 33% of Internet users will be using Twitter within two years. My guess is that handheld twitter use will be even higher!

And since 91% of cell phone users keep their phone within arms reach 24/7, doesn’t it make sense that travelers will want to get travel advice using this device – while in your region? (source – Mary Meeker Web2Summit 08′)

So, isn’t it time your tourism region put together a strategic plan to use twitter to help visitors to your region?

A new site TwisitorCenter.com invites travel regions to put their location on the Twitter Map and respond to the call. Portland OR. was first up, and they have a plan for the Portland Twisitor Center. Looking for ideas for your region? View the video below from Portland or check out this post featuring more than 15 ideas on how to make the most of Twitter in your community.

Interesting questions and opportunities spring to mind:

  • how will you staff your twitter account?
  • how will you promote your regions #hashtag (in the offline world)
  • how quickly will you respond to inquiries and during what hours?
  • how will you compensate twitter team members?
  • how can you engage local businesses? (sponsored tweets? – come on there’s money to be made here)
  • how can you integrate twitter with SMS and call centre inquiries?
  • how can twitter be used as a followup tool to connect with travelers when they go home? (think CRM)

Lots to think about, but lots of opportunity awaits.

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CVB’s, Tourism Associations, Regional Marketing folk – Who’s your Ideal Client?

January 9, 2009

How are you meeting the needs of your ideal client? In your day to day operations you have an important role meeting the needs of two different types of clients: first, visitors to your region but more importantly, the tourism businesses in your region What are the needs of tourism businesses in your region? Before [...]

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