News about the PhoCusWright Bloggers Summit at ITB Berlin
After the great success of the first ever travel industry bloggers summit, at the PhoCusWright Conference in November, the next PhoCusWright Bloggers Summit will be taking place at ITB Berlin, March 5-6, 2008.
With 10,000 exhibitors from 180 countries and regions, ITB Berlin represents the full spectrum of global tourism at all levels and a great location for the first Europe-based travel industry blogging summit.
PhoCusWright is currently inviting applications from qualified (see details) travel industry bloggers to participate in The PhoCusWright Bloggers Summit@ITB Berlin. More information about the program can be found here.
Even if you don’t blog yourself, or you’re still thinking about how blogging might help your destination or business, the PhoCusWright Bloggers Summit is worth checking out if you are planning to attend ITB.
One of the best parts of the Bloggers Summit in Orlando – which I am thrilled to see will be repeated in Berlin – was the panel based workshop which brought travel suppliers, DMOs and other travel and tourism companies together with the blogging community for a direct and lively discussion.
The room was packed to bursting point in Orlando, so in Berlin there will be two workshops. These will be open to all ITB Berlin attendees and I believe will also feature a panel made up of Tips From The T-List bloggers (we are very pleased thatour blog, Tracking Tourism, will be able to take part in this).
The PhoCusWright schedule gives the following details about the workshop:
“Workshops: Blogging With the Long Tail of Tourism
Presented by Tips From the T-List
Wednesday March 5: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Two workshops will show how an active, content-producing network of bloggers can have a growing influence on your customers’ online spending habits. The workshops will give valuable tools to travel suppliers, DMOs, OTAs, and other travel and tourism companies that are looking to engage the blogging community and help focus user-generated content for their benefit. New innovations in blogging will be covered as well as a number of user-generated content trends. There will be an expert panel of travel marketers and technologists from around the world providing two interactive sessions.”
Get more details on The PhoCusWright Bloggers Summit@ITB Berlin here.
Read more about ITB Berlin
Finally, a revised version of the Tips from the T-List Book which will be updated for ITB Berlin and available for download at www.tipsfromthetlist.com.
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