What is Travel Tuesday?

Twitter has a terrific travel community, attracting Travel Agents, Travel Bloggers, Hotel Owners, Airlines, Tour Operators and people genuinely interested in travel and world-wide destinations.

Earlier this year Katy, the Community Manager of ‘Where I’ve Been’ initiated #traveltuesday. You will see that Katy has a huge following on Twitter which has made #traveltuesday a great success and a highlight for many on Twitter.

The concept is not unlike #followfriday but for the travel-minded. The day is a hive of activity adding the #traveltuesday hashtag and a reason for your recommendation of fellow travel tweeps. The hashtag also gets added to tweets of particular interest, so those that undertake a #traveltuesday search will find not only industry tweeps but also interesting links, blogs and the like.

For those new to #traveltuesday here is a list of some of my favourite travel tweeps to get you started;

@AdamAxon
@AfricaFreak
@AusGeo
@BayAreaTendrils
@beachandcruise
@BtrVacationRent
@coffeewithzooly
@colletts
@DanHaneveer
@GotPassport
@JasonsTravels
@JimmyColeman
@JourneyJottings
@kgrahamjourneys
@LeanneNelson
@lonelyplanet
@LucyWhittington
@MelanieFineEVI
@NickBowditch
@peace_
@RitasOutback
@RockyTravel
@TheTravelTart
@traveldudes
@TravelWonders
@TravelWriticus
@velvetescape
@WhereIveBeen
@Whitsundays
@woywegian

If you are not on this list and would like to be included, please give me a nudge!

Social Media Complaining!

I have just read an enlightening article by Michelle Higgins the writer of the ‘Practical Travel’ column, for the New York Times. She outlines the use of Twitter for travellers, highlighting the use of Twitter when it comes to ‘complaining’!

With Twitter’s popularity growing and the awareness of the power of Social Media, many of the large travel and tourism companies have jumped on board. Not only do they have the opportunity to shout out their goods and services in 140 character tweets but they are now open to receiving 140 character tweets from their customers – and they do so.

Michelle Huggins writes “As hotels, airlines and other travel companies line up on Twitter to promote their brands, customers who voice their grievances in the form of tweets are getting surprisingly fast responses for everything from bad airplane seats to poor room service” – READ MORE