Social Media and Travel

Sep 23, 2011 by

It does not matter where you are, what you do for a living, or how often you like to travel or have to travel, there is certainly no escaping social media.  Maybe you have to use it on a daily basis for your job, or maybe you just really, really like to constantly be connected to the entire outside world.  Whatever your reason, you can certainly do it thanks to awesome technology and mobile options for social media.

Social media and mobile technology are even changing how travel sites and travel advisers are doing business.  For more information on how that is so, take a look at the below infographic.  You will find out some pretty interesting facts, like:

• 42% of United States mobile users will research and look up travel options and choices on their mobile device.
• 70% of people in the hospitality industry believe that TripAdvisor is the site that influence travelers the most.
• Unfortunately 37% of travel agents do not think that Facebook is beneficial for their business.
• 78% of travel agents actually have websites.  Sadly, only 20% of those have updated the site in the past 5 years.
• Over half of luxury vacations that are booked are done so online.