WTM Social Travel Market - the wrap

The floor fills for the opening session of WTM Social Travel Market

by Steve Keenan

Two days, 13 seminars and 37 speakers - thank you one and all, as you made this year’s event a triumph.

And to all you unlucky people who missed the event at Excel last week, here we’ll present a wrap of everything that made WTM Social Travel Market such a resounding success. We look forward to meeting you next year.

1. WTM Social Travel Market - the live blog from Wednesday including all the presentation slides
2. WTM Social Travel Market - the live blog from Thursday including all the presentation slides
3. All sessions from the first day of WTM Social Travel Market on video
- an introduction to WTM Social Travel Market from Mark Frary
- Foursquare: is this the travel app that will dominate travel?
- The pyschology of social media from Allister Frost
- Mobile trends: getting content into the travellers’ hands
- Video and blogging: more than one way
- What jobs are there in social media for 2013?
- How to sort the blaggers from the bloggers
- The best bloggers’ innovations of 2012
4. Sessions from the second day of WTM Social travel Market on video
- The Silk Road: creating a WordPress site in 40 minutes, with bloggers Chris Richardson and Steve Whale
- #Travelfail: Andy Jarosz, Jeremy Skidmore and Sarah Rathbone (Siren Comms) on how companies should use social media to tackle a crisis
- Enrique Ruiz de Lera of the Spanish National Tourist Office in the UK on how his country is marketing Spain in times of austerity

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5. A post on WTM and STM sessions by Grow with Organic
6. Bloggers v blaggers from PlanetSki
7. A report from the Spanish National Tourist Office session on marketing in the time of austerity
8. View the video blog of Siren Comms at Social Travel Market and WTM
9. A report on the session on blogger innovations in 2012 from TTG Digital - registration required
10. Jen Howze on her appearance on the blogger innovation panel - with a link through to her BritMums blog and another post