Web in Travel 2010: Social Media and the Travel industry

This article has Morris share his insights on social media and the travel industry during WIT 2010, featured by Web In Travel (August 31st, 2010).
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Companies are quickly realizing that social media is a new form of marketing, which actually isn’t that new after all. It’s an ancient human behavior wrapped up within a new technology. We’ve been sharing stories and experiences for millennia, this new format just enables us to share much faster and across previously perceived boundaries. The format is instantaneous and effectively cuts out time and space constraints. We are now truly forming a global village. And this, in turn, is raising industry standards for everyone’s keeping an eye on all the industry players all the time.

Web In Travel is a content and community platform for the travel distribution, marketing and technology space. It provides news, commentary, analysis and opinions and organizes events that break down walls between people, cultures, knowledge and ideas. Events include WIT*e – Inspiration & Mentoring, WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp and the WIT Conference.