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The Digital Tourism Show — 279 episodes

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278: The Last Ever Digital Tourism Show?

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277: The Ongoing Issue with Sales and Marketing Tracking and Why Res Tech Must Change!

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276: Research Blog Titles For Content Inspiration

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275: Create a Poll for Quick Consumer Research

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274: How to Conduct a Quick Competitor Analysis for Free

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273: How To Start Optimising Your Google Business Profile

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272: Sell your products on your Facebook & Instagram Accounts

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271: The 30 Second Video Challenge: Tips on Shooting video

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270: Create your own Cash-flow Crystal Ball and Predict the Future

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269: Looking at Your Customer Purchase Journey

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268: The Sales Process for Enquiry Based Tourism Products

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267: Build up Your Customer Reviews & Brand Trust

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266: Launching 5 Minute Marketing Workshops

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265: Important Announcements and the Future of The Digital Tourism Show

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264: How Technology is Changing the Tour & Activity Landscape

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263: How Technology Can Enhance The Guest Experience

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262: A look at Things To Do On Google and Google My Business

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261: The Growth of Wellness Travel in the Post Pandemic World

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260: The Importance of a Robust Reporting System to Boost Revenue

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259: Using SMS to Grow Your Tour Business

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258: How to Generate Revenue from Retail & Merchandise

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257: Travel Planning for Consumers

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256: Marketing Through Covid and Beyond

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255: Traveller Mindset and Intent in 2021 and Beyond

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254: Pivoting a Tour Business During Covid – Real Life Examples and Discussion

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253: How Covid Has Affected Tours, Attractions, Accommodation & Hospitality

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252: The Fundamentals of a Good Website in Tours and Activities

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251: The Rise of the Artificial Intelligent Tour Guide

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250: Selecting a CRM While Building Automated Sales and Marketing Processes Without the Price Tag

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249: GetYourGuide Hiding Customer Details from Operators: What This Means for You

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248: How Brand Scotland are Shaping the Destination in 2020 and Beyond

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247: What it Took to Preserve The Waverley, the World’s Last Seagoing Paddle Steamer

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246: The Cultural Rebirth of Glasgow and How it’s Perceived Internationally

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245: Marketing your Tour Business in the Post-Covid World

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244: Starting a New Tour Business in Scotland... The Pitfalls, Challenges and Successes

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243: Digital Marketing Fundamentals... Be Visible in Those Right Moments

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242: Virtual Tours - A Distraction or a Valid Opportunity?

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241: Creating Opportunity From Disaster – Surviving COVID-19

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240: Taking Selfie’s from Space and COVID-19 Spelfie Strategies for Destinations

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239: How The Edinburgh Dungeon Has Kept Scaring Visitors For 20 Years

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238: From Neuroscience to Food Tours: How I Grew my Food Tour Business

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237: Discussion on Marketing your Tour Business Through COVID

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236: Creating Tailor Made, Luxury Whisky Tours for International and Royal Guests

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235: How Data, Big or Small, Can Help Grow your Tourism Business

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234: COVID Marketing, Facebook Ads, Marketing, Growth - The First Ever Digital Tourism Show LIVE

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233: How UnTour Food Tour Have Been Affected by the Coronavirus and the Launch of No Appetite for Ignorance

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232: The Effects of OTAs in the Tour Industry and the Future of Reservation Systems

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231: The Rise of Audio Tours and Finding Great Tour Guides

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230: Key Sustainability Trends and Tips for your Tourism Business

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Marketing against the effects of the Coronavirus

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229: Key Accommodation Trends and How This Will Affect You in 2020

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228: How to Create and Optimise Your Products for the Corporate Traveller

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227: How You Can Use Public Relations to Grow Your Tourism Business

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226: The Digital Battle for Tours & Activities Part 2

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225: How I Have Grown a Successful Luxury Adventure Holiday Brand in Scotland

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224: Industry Review of 2019 with Shane from Tourpreneur

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223: Connecting and Promoting your Products Through Global Travel Agencies

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222: Debunking Myths About Chatbots and How It Can Help Grow Your Tour Business

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221: Rebuilding Trust: Trials & tribulations of purchasing a hotel with a bad reputation

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220: Growing a Successful Accommodation Business with Sustainability in Mind

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219: Why Google Ads may not solve sales issues in your tour business

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218: How to Grow a Successful Camper-van Rental Business in Scotland

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217: Why a Marketing Agency Can't Guarantee Bookings

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216: From Homelessness To Tour Guide: The Story Behind This Amazing Social Enterprise

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215: What Makes An Attractive Tour with Sean Galloway of ToursByLocals

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214: Better Guides Increases Revenue with Kelsey Tonner

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213: The Importance of Blogging & Approaching Influencers

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212: Creating A Five Star Customer Experience & Exceeding Expectations

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211: Guide To Video Marketing

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210: How To Create Award Winning Marketing Campaigns

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209: Design Thinking & Innovation In The Travel Space

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208: Growing Your Tour Business Through Linkedin

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207: Can A Subscription Model Work In The Tourism Sector

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206: Destination Marketing - Heart & Soul Of Scotland

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205: How I Grew A Successful Adventure Tour Business

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204: The Current State Of Tours & Activities

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203: Autonomous Vehicles & The Future Of Sightseeing

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202: TripAdvisor Flip-Flopping On the Flip-Flop

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201: Creating A Killer Brand

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200: How To Rank On TripAdvisor

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199: The Importance Of The Humble Phone Call

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198: Adding Value To Your Facebook Ads

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197: Expert Opinion with Oskar Bruening of PeekPro

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196: Why You Should Invest in Good Translation

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195: The Current State Of Luxury Travel

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194: The Digital Battle for Tours and Activities

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193: Perfecting your Facebook Advertising Strategy

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192: Keeping Customer Attention (Without Repetition)

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191: What do Booking.com & TripAdvisor Mean for the Tourism Industry?

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190: How to Structure the Perfect Blog

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189: GDPR's Impact in the Tourism Marketing Industry?

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188: How to improve your TripAdvisor ranking

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187: You Should Batch Create Your Content

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186: The Importance of Legacy Content In Sales

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185: Use Instagram Stories for Tourism Marketing

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184: How to market your business with no money

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183: Use an Influencer to Drive Results

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182: You Make It Too Difficult To Get In Touch

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181: Use Remarketing For More Sales

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180: Use the 80-20 Rule In Marketing

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179: There is more to video than YouTube

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178: Target Upcoming Birthdays On Facebook

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177: Stop With Your Hit And Run Email Campaigns

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176: The Proof is in the Pudding

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175: Reduce your Google Adwords Cost Per Click

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174: Make the Most Of Your Unsubscribes

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173: Have A Plan For Social Marketing

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172: Get More Bang For Your Buck With Earned Content

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171: Find New Ways to Market Your Hotel

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170: Don’t Ignore comments

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169: Don’t Be The Ass in Assume

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168: Always Test and Measure Your Marketing

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167: Define the purpose of your web page

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166: Do Not Offer Advertising On Your Site

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165: Customers Are Not Interested In You

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164: A Blog Is A Must For Your Tourism Business

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163: Changes to Googles Search Results

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162: Create a Meaningful Unique Selling Point

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161: Follow the 3 Step Marketing Approach

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160: The One Thing You Must Build

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159: Become a Customer for your Competitors

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158: Handling Disgruntled Customers

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157: Wrong to Tax Tourists?

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156: The New Ranking Factors You need to know

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155: The Power of Curiosity In Tourism

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154: There Are No Secrets in Marketing

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153: The Importance of Brand Guidelines

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152: How to Market to Dissatisfied Customers

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151: Does Direct Mail Work?

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150: Build Relationships, Not Sales

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149: Never Buy A Mailing List

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148: Avoid Information Overload

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147: Use Instagram for instasales

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146: Give Stuff Away For Free

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145: The Power of Facebook Groups in Tourism

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144: 5 Quick Twitter Tips For Tourism

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143: Top 10 Video Marketing Ideas For Tourism, Part 2

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142: Top 10 Video Marketing Ideas For Tourism, Part 1

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141: Helpful Content Wins Every Time

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140: The Art Of Storytelling In Tourism

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139: Competing With The Big Players In Tourism

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138: You Need To Educate And Inform Not Interrupt And Sell

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137: The Experience Economy

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136: Your Voice Matters

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135: Common Mistake You Might Be Making

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134: Open Your Doors To Tourists

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133: Which is best? HTML or Plain Email Newsletters

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132: When to Choose a Mobile App or Responsive Website

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131: How to use Facebook’s shop to increase sales

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130: How To Persuade People To Read Your Content

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129: Keep the conversation going with a call

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128: Mix Business With Pleasure

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127: Pay Per Click on a Budget

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125: The Binge Watch Culture

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124: The Future of Tourism, Part 4

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123: The Future of Tourism, Part 3

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122: The Future of Tourism, Part 2

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121: The Future of Tourism, Part 1

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120: The Five Stages of Travel, Part 5

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119: The Five Stages Of Travel, Part 4

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118: The Five Stages Of Travel, Part 3

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117: The Five Stages Of Travel, Part 2

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116: The Five Stages Of Travel, Part 1

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115: Time To Cut The Cord On Activities

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114: How Golf Clubs Can Use Social, Part 3

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113: How Golf Clubs Can Use Social, Part 2

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112: How Golf Clubs Can Use Social, Part 1

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111: The Power of Scarcity

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110: Target Customers At Airports

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109: Facebook The Saviour Of Travel?

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108: The Uber Effect

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107: Generate Revenue From Referrals

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106: What Does Viator's Booking Platform Mean For You?

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105: PR In Tourism

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104: Targeting local business

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103: What about Virtual Reality in Tourism?

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102: Use Gift Cards for More Revenue

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101: It’s all about authenticity in adventure travel

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100: The Weakest Link

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99: Create Food Tours for Tasty Profits

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98: Get Personal in Tours & Activities

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97: Boost your brand on TripAdvisor, Part 4

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96: Boost your brand on TripAdvisor, Part 3

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95: Boost your brand on TripAdvisor, Part 2

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94: Boost your brand on TripAdvisor, Part 1

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93: Boost your brand on Instagram, Part 4

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92: Boost your brand on Instagram, Part 3

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91: Boost your brand on Instagram, Part 2

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90: Boost your brand on Instagram, Part 1

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89: Pay Per Click Advertising in Tourism, Part 3

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88: Pay Per Click Advertising in Tourism, Part 2

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87: Pay Per Click Advertising in Tourism, Part 1

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86: Timing is Crucial

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84: Email Marketing in Tourism, Part 3

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83: Email Marketing in Tourism, Part 2

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85: You Are Driving Customers Away

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82: Email Marketing in Tourism, Part 1

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81: Become a Social Carer

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80: Challenge Your Customers

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79: Commission Is Killing You Slowly

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78: Stay On Target

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77: Marketing Budget Spend

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76: How to Maintain Standards

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75: Automated Marketing for Tourism

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74: Travel Blogging Tips – Part 3

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73: Travel Blogging Tips – Part 2

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72: Travel Blogging Tips – Part 1

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71: User-Generated Content Crucial In Travel, Part 3

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70: User-Generated Content Crucial In Travel, Part 2

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69: User-Generated Content Crucial In Travel, Part 1

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68: Why your bookings are falling Part 3

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67: Why your bookings are falling Part 2

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66: Why your bookings are falling Part 1

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65: What to do about bad reviews on TripAdvisor

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64: Why Tour Operators MUST go paperless

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63: Understand Customer Needs

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62: Respect Senior Travellers

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61: What to do about your competition

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60: Are Travel Brands Listening?

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59: Grabbing Customer’s Attention

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58: Don’t Compete On Price

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57: Invest In Your Website

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56: Travellers want Authenticity

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55: Travel Start-up Advice

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54: Top hotel marketing tips part 4

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53: Top hotel marketing tips part 3

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52: Top hotel marketing tips part 2

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51: Top hotel marketing tips part 1

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50: Tell customers what to do

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49: The VIP Factor

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48: Social Media Battleground

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47: Target Existing Customers

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46: Social Media Buzz

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45: Should You Take Deposits?

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44: Selling Your Destination

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43: Prioritise Your Marketing Activities

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42: Choosing the right booking engine Part 3

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41: Choosing the right booking engine Part 2

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40: Choosing the right booking engine Part 1

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39: Plan Ahead Of Time

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38: Power of Competitions in Marketing

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37: Leverage Location Based Apps

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36: Reach Millennials In Tourism

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35: Forget B2B or B2C In Business

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34: Hang Out With Your Customers

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33: Package Your Products

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32: Analyse Your Website Performance

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31: Engage with YouTube Videos

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30: Live for Live Streaming

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29: Offer Live Availability

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28: Know Your Customers

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27: Your Products Suck

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26: Enhance your hotel experience

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25: Easily Build Marketing Lists

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24: There is no off Season

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23: Why you must use Live Chat

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22: Customer tactics and planning

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21: Automate your sales and marketing

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19: Boost Business With Bloggers Part 3

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20: FREE WiFi Free Marketing

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18: Boost Business With Bloggers Part 2

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17: Boost Business With Bloggers Part 1

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16: Targeting Baby Boomers in Tourism

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15: Keeping up with exchange rates

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14: It’s not all about you

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13: Earn Trust With Earned Content

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12: Don’t expect instant bookings

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11: Always ask for Feedback

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10: Awesome Tourism Videos

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9: Why AirBNB is dominating

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8: Be a Go Getter on Social Media

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7: Embrace Micro Content

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6: OTA or Local

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5: Top Tourism Mistakes Part 5

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4: Top Tourism Mistakes Part 4

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3: Top Tourism Mistakes Part 3

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2: Top Tourism Mistakes Part 2

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1: Top Tourism Mistakes part 1

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126: Target the influencer in travel groups