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How Social Media Changed Tourism Marketing

Strategy Driven

Though Facebook is not specific to travel like TripAdvisor, Facebook Recommendations allow its users to ask advice to their peers about the best cities to travel, which hotels to stay in, restaurants, and activities to do. This is thanks to social media sites like Instagram, TripAdvisor, and Yelp.

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Will The Remote Work Boom See A Rise In Digital Nomadism?

The Horizons Tracker

While newspaper headlines have examined the travails of the tourism industry and the impact reductions in business travel is having on the sector, they are not the only group for whom travel restrictions have had a profound impact. There is also a shift underway in our attitude towards tourism.

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How Can I Find Seasonal Jobs Hiring Immediately?

HR Digest

Most companies – especially in the retail, tourism, and transportation sector – hire seasonal workers for Christmas, which is the busiest season of the year. Here’s how to search for and apply for seasonal jobs, along with job search tips, and advice on where to look to find seasonal jobs hiring immediately.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. In sum, innovation tourism is not really tourism.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. Was that advice from people like Professor Porter? In the initial three areas of coffee, tea, and tourism, that effort has advanced quite far now. Was that something that came bottom up? What are the bottlenecks?

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