The Future of Social Media for Hotel Marketing, Travel and Tourism.

This articles is a beginners guide to social media for travel. Its an interactive channel where the key is interaction and conversation. But, it is also a distribution channel as noted in the video at the end of the article.

Here are the key benefits in Social Media Marketing for travel:

Below we provide a list with the most important benefits of using social media campaigns. Social Media marketing can help you:

-Add new channels to market your property and brand
-Communicate with your prospects, travel shoppers and clients
-Get closer to your prospects and engage them
-Stay in contact with loyal customers and share stories they can pass along.
-Generate buzz around your brand and increase your online reputation and authority
-Distribute the content of your company or organization and promote your blog
-Get more traffic of your website
-Get more backlinks and improve your Page Rank and SEO
-Get feedback from your visitors comments to fine tune your business
-Promote your content at low cost
-Build relationships with industry experts
-Get news and reviews on your industry
-Get and Share reviews of your brand

Also see latest news on Facebook declining numbers and what this means for travel marketing on Fan Pages