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Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

petertravels — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:31 -0000

My wife and I always seem to use tripadvisor when planning a vacation. We like to search blogs and forums to hear what people have to say. AtlasTravelWeb has a blog that gives great information and lists current deals. http://blog.atlastravelweb.com

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Mayordomo Fiel — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:22:11 -0000

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Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

softsolution — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:37:15 -0000

thank, i will try it.
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Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

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Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

shank — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:20:29 -0000

great advice
i will try this

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Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

shank — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:09:57 -0000

really like ..this advice..
i use....this.

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edsion007 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:02:49 -0000

thats so cool...

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

GoDaddy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:50:50 -0000

The two sites I most frequent for travel research are Priceline and Bidlesstravel, which is, in fact, a so-called social media type of site. The fomer has amazing deals on cheap hotels, so long as you are willing to roll the proverbial dice and take what they give you when you bid is accepted; the latter is a Priceline bidding community that has a database to track historical bids, thereby giving you a range of accepted bids to help you determine the lowest possible bid Priceline will accepted.

http://www.priceline.com
http://www.bidlesstravel.com

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Noah Lieske — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:33:09 -0000

Great post! Thank you. Noah Lieske

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Rebecca Avalon — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:02:36 -0000

I joined WorldVentures, a travel club. Like Costco, the company buys the rooms/cabins in bulk and then plans Dreamtrips for it's members. I went on a $79 3 night Bahamas cruise last summer (and no I didn't have to sleep in the life raft) IThe best part is that it's a network marketing company, so if you refer 6 people your club membership is free for life. Now THATS social networking.

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

mal129 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:57:20 -0000

Good advice

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SixteenDegrees — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:45:41 -0000

I agree with the earlier post about using Flickr. I often end up travelling to quite obscure places, so searching the placename as a tag, and then ordering the photos by date gives me an idea of the likely weather conditions.

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Ethan2365 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:46:40 -0000

I've been hosting couchsurfers in Japan for 2 years, great experiences, amazing people. Only one surfer with an issue. Haven't seen flight deals on CS (did I miss something in the update?). 1 million users is a global movement.

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Dag Blakstad — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:56:46 -0000

A whole lot of useful stuff to check out here in this discussion, but none using http://earth.google.com/ That is almost unbelievable, or has it become passe?

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Tim Hurley — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:52:36 -0000

I go to Rio every year and love sharing tips on the city!

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ed lester — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:15:47 -0000

We're working very hard to get TravelShout.com and TravelBookmarking.com in shape and to the stage where they can be considered really useful travel tools. A long way to go yet but improving and developing on a daily basis and would love to get feedback or thoughts from anyone who has attempted to use them.

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ed lester — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:14:16 -0000

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

juan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:40:58 -0000

Lots of great ideas here. I'm putting together something like this for Highway 281. The highway that runs from Canada to Mexico. This info is very helpful. Thanks.

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Dag Blakstad — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:59:46 -0000

Great tips, but it could be even better using GPS. I have Twibble on my N95 that can include my position in tweets. Maybe this even can be part of a business model for Twitter. It would be useful to search for tweets about a geographical location. Stores, restaurants and other interesting things for visitors could pay to be (profiled) in some sort of register so they can easily be found.

BTW I twittered about the conditions on a newly opened hotel at Norefjell, Norway last weekend to another tweeple staying there the next weekend: http://search.twitter.com/s...

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Childfall — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:06:43 -0000

Your comments are more and more, but also very exciting, very enjoy reading your opinions, can learn a lot of knowledge, for me, very helpful, I wish you good luck!

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Britta — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:27:21 -0000

This post is the exact reason why I started my blog. I want people to know and appreciate Vienna, Austria and I love giving tips about my adopted city!

Check out my blog at http://op-expat.com/ for insider tips about Vienna.

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

Eugenio — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:05:08 -0000

Great Tip!
One of the best application for user generated content (or "comments") is the one applied to travels! And with that long long tail of local communities, or specific kind of vacation...
Guess what? I'm tryin' to do it... :)

Re: HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research

erichmiller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:13:58 -0000

I can't wait to use these tips this year. We are thinking of visiting DC this spring and I will probably asking my Twitter friends about good places to stay/eat in the area.

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web design — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:48:04 -0000

I like the tips and surely i will use these tips when i go for trip and hope it will be a nice experience.

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