Twitter for the Travel and Hospitality Industry

There is a large and established community of travel professionals, travel bloggers and travelers on Twitter.  If you’re a hotel, travel agent, destination, restaurant, or anything related to being on the go, there is a place for you on Twitter.  Below are some tips for taking the leap into the wonderful, traveling Twitterverse:

• Profile: Create a profile that reflects you.  Enlist the help of a graphic designer if you can to add pictures that tell your travel story to your background.
• Following: There are a lot of amazing travel people to follow.  You can find great ones on WeFollow and ShortyAwards.  The travel community on Twitter is very into reciprocity, so if you follow and retweet posts that resonate with you, it’s the best way to get followed back and retweeted.
• Lists: Many folks have developed great travel lists.  You can find some of these here.
• #TravelTuesday: This Twitter meme has legs.  Every Tuesday, travelers, travel writers and travel pros a like tweet their best info using the #traveltuesday hashtag.  Join the conversation and watch it unfold using search.

Twitter is a great place to find clients, options for cross promotions and to be discovered by travel writers.  It’s easy to get started, so if you’re not tweeting yet, get aboard the Twitter train!