tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24420045658227807602024-02-07T09:25:50.164-08:00Interactive TourismAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-89025160697508772872016-01-17T12:44:00.001-08:002016-01-17T12:45:08.927-08:00Beautiful pictures of the Prinsentuin<div class="MsoNormal">
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beautiful garden near to the Martinitoren and Martinikerk which is especially
in spring a beautiful place to visit.</div>
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This article will touch upon a research that has been conducted
to investigate whether the amount of existing geolocated photographs posted to
the online photo-sharing website flickr is able to reveal where people go to. <sup>1
</sup>Geolocated photographs are photographs that are tagged together with a
location, so that you know exactly where the picture is taken. They
investigated on a worldwide scale which locations where tagged the most often
and therefore, the most popular to go to. Despite that this research is still
far from perfect, I found it striking that they were now doing research based
on Flickr, an app on a mobile phone! This a very good example of web 2.0,
social media is functioning in multiple and different ways than before! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since I was inspired by their research, I became curious
about Flickr and its photographs of the Prinsentuin. I have never visited the
Prinsentuin before and during my visit in the winter, everything was not
growing so there was not a lot of beautifulness to see. When I was searching on
Flickr for the Prinsentuin I saw beautiful pictures and I need to show them.</div>
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You can see how many faves and comments the picture has and
in this one you see the geotag! I like the flower very much since it’s almost
my name MelissA haha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am triggered by the research which has been done and I
like the idea of using social media as a foundation for data collection. I was
surprised by the fact of the amount of photos on Flickr of the Prinsentuin but
this is a good sign for the popularity of the Prinsentuin.</div>
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Hope to see you next time again,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I visited some years ago a garden as well and there I found the match with my name! It's a kind of tea.<br />
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<i>References:</i><br />
<i>1. </i><span style="text-indent: -36pt;">Wood, S., Guerry, A., Silver, J., & Lacayo, M. (2013). Using
social media to quantify nature-based tourism and recreation. Scientific
Reports , 12-21.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-55234846301039299972016-01-10T11:30:00.000-08:002016-01-20T00:11:00.673-08:00Groninger Museum is sold out!<div class="MsoNormal">
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The Groninger Museum offers several things such as collections
that deal with the history of Groningen, atelier and exposures. At the moment
there is an very popular exposure of David Bowie which immediately caught my
attention when I visited the Groninger Museum. This was the first time I saw
huge posters promoting an activity for themselves which is in my idea a good
way to get attention of people. Likewise, the exposures for 28, 29 and 30 December
are sold out, so this indicates the popularity of the exposures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, on Facebook it is clear that Groninger museum is very
popular! It has 12105 likes and is very active on Facebook. It posts daily
updates on the David Bowie exposure and this is a good way to maintain relationships
with the public. This is the same for Twitter with 69900 followers, this is
clearly more than for example the Martinitoren. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Groninger Museum is a very modern museum due to the
design of the building. The building is very colourful and weirdly shaped. The website
is colourful as well and very informative for people who don’t know what to expect
from the Groninger Museum since it offers a variety of activities. Furthermore,
the website refers to all their social media which include Tripadvisor, Vimeo and
Zoover as well! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I find it surprising that they’re actively involved in a
range of different social media, but this is actually how one should deal with
the opportunities that it gets! The Groninger Museum does a very good job
considering the supplier side of social media. They actively post on a lot
different pages and media, and people post good reviews on popular sites like
Zoover and Tripadvisor, which Groninger Museum refers to on their website.<br />
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In a museum in Denmark a long time ago haha.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-80426869750836557302016-01-10T11:25:00.000-08:002016-01-24T07:40:50.295-08:00Stadspark Camping, would you stay over there?<div class="MsoNormal">
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Today I’m going to discuss the stadspark camping. I always
used to go on vacation for 2 weeks together with my family and we always stayed
with a caravan on a camping. So I’m an expert on the field of what attractive
is for children and what isn’t.</div>
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Camping Stadspark is for tourists not comparable with for
example Hotel Prinsenhof, so we are looking to a totally different branche of
people. These people have probably a lower budget and will be pickier about
choosing a camping. Therefore, for Camping Stadspark it’s even more important
to have a good image on the internet. A
dutch site called Zoover.nl is the website for people to give ratings and post
comments. On zoover.nl camping stadspark has an average score of 7.5 which I
find decent. It also has only 13 reviews, which I find low compared with more
popular campings where I have been such as de Molenhof and de Kleine Wolf, they
approximately have 700 reviews. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Considering their social media pages, they are doing ‘better’.
Although they are closed at the moment, they still post actively on Facebook.
Also, on Twitter there are occasionally some tweets. On Facebook they also have
a rating of 5 stars out of 5. However, there are only 4 people who voted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Camping Stadspark has also their own website. I find this a
clear website with sufficient information. They also refer to other tourist
attractions like the Martinitoren, Noorderplantsoen and Groninger Museum
because they are situated closely to these attractions. This is very smart to
attract more tourists. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In conclusion I can say that Camping Stadspark isn’t very
known by a lot of people, therefore it has not a lot of ratings on Zoover.nl.
However, they do sufficient in terms of social media to attract tourists.
Despite this, they could promote more to review and vote for them on popular
review sites.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Melisse<br />
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Our beautiful caravan! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-26070492287895364962016-01-10T11:14:00.000-08:002016-01-29T04:47:02.108-08:00The future of social media and tourism<div class="MsoNormal">
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Today I want to have a discussion on social media and
tourism and its future. On my blog I have investigated for 6 tourist
attractions their social media usage. However, will social media last longer?
And why?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well for suppliers it may be clear, it’s just a very
quick way to promote yourself and doesn’t cost a lot of money. Considering the
consumer side, there have been huge changes due to Web 2.0 as I have mentioned
earlier. <span style="background: white;">There has been done more research that
investigates the intention to use social media as a tourist and their
conclusion is crystal clear. Sharing photos and videos, blogging, using
podcasts and reviewing and rating to enhance the touristic experience is
becoming normal and is defined as Travel 2.0.<sup> 1</sup> The main reason for
using social media is the benefits such as functional, psychological and
hedonic, and social, that you perceive when using social media. Suppliers
should listen to the consumers to in cooperate their ideas and to fulfil their
needs. This will in order increase the tourists’ utility. Similarly, suppliers
can enhance the perceived social benefits by offering interconnectivity, by
participating in the conversation and managing fans and followers.
Additionally, they should give the consumers possibility to use in social
media. Additionally, the costs of using social media don’t impact the
willingness to use social media. This is an important finding, since this
indicates that consumers find the benefits more important than the costs for
using social media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In conclusion, I can say that social media and tourism will continue. It’s
clear that consumers and suppliers both benefit from engaging in social media.
Therefore, it’s important that suppliers will keep on improving with providing
the consumers the things they need and want in order to keep on engaging in
social media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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See you the next time,<br />
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Melisse<br />
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1. <span lang="NL" style="text-indent: -36pt;">Parra-Lopéz, E., Bulchand-Gidumalb, J.,
Gutiérrez-Tañoa, D., & Díaz-Armasa, R. (2011). </span><span style="text-indent: -36pt;">Intentions to use social
media in organizing and taking vacation trips. </span><i style="text-indent: -36pt;">Web 2.0 in Travel and
Tourism: Empowering and Changing the Role of Travelers, 27</i><span style="text-indent: -36pt;">(2), 640-654.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-46669860579024470012016-01-10T10:52:00.001-08:002016-02-06T13:13:32.242-08:00Goodbye readers!<div class="MsoNormal">
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This will be already my last blogpost. In this blogpost I
will give an overview of my 6 different visits and its different usages of
social media. Furthermore, I will give an conclusion with an eye on the
objectives that I have stated beforehand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have visited the Martinitoren, het Noorderplantsoen, de
Prinsentuin, Hotel Prinsenhof, Stadspark Camping and Groninger Museum. I
enjoyed looking to all these tourist attractions from a different angle than I
normally would do. Each attractions used social media in different ways and I
will discuss this shortly in the following section.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first objective was to find out if social media is an effective
tool to attract consumers. I would say that it’s definitely effective, evidence
is given by Groninger Museum and research has multiple times revealed that
interaction between suppliers and consumers enhances the touristic experience
for consumers and therefore sales for suppliers. However, still not all the
tourist attraction optimally use social media to attract consumers such as the
Martinitoren.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second objective was to investigate whether the usage of
consumers impacts the popularity of tourist attractions. This is of course hard
to say, however Hotel Prinsenhof, de Prinsentuin, Groninger Museum all had a
lot of positive reactions and feedback on the internet and this will definitely
have influence on tourists. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, the last objective was to find out whether the tourist
attractions put somehow attention on their social media. This was not as
evident as I expected. Groninger Museum had big posters, het Noorderplantsoen
some signs and de Prinsenhof had an recognition sign of a good quality hotel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So how would I define the link between tourism and social
media in Groningen? In Groningen there is definitely interaction between
consumers and suppliers via social media. However, this could be expanded very
much, by more interaction which will increase the utility of consumers. So I
hope that in Groningen social media will be seen as an effective tool to
interact with consumers and will be playing a bigger role in the future. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope you enjoyed reading my blog, I hoped you enjoyed
seeing my personal photos, in any case: I enjoyed writing this blog! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Selfie-time in Istanbul! :)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-79421381813835765542015-12-28T03:11:00.000-08:002015-12-28T03:11:03.126-08:00Noorderplantsoen, still involved with social media? <div class="MsoNormal">
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Here I’m again! This time I want to discuss the well-known
Noorderplantsoen! I have cycled through the Noorderplantsoen with my goPro and
made a short-movie to introduce the Noorderplantsoen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Especially for the Noorderplantsoen I was curious about the
usage of social media and if it referred to their social media, since the Noorderplantsoen
seems not to need any of these, because who isn’t familiar with Noorderplantsoen?<br />
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Indeed, when visiting Noorderplantsoen I didn’t immediately
see something that referred to social media! However, when cycling through the
Noorderplantsoen I saw a sign with goodbye, and then the website of
Noorderplantsoen. Later, I came across an almost identical sign with welcome.</div>
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They actively post on their website with news and other articles that are
related with Noorderplantsoen. Additionally, they are sending news letters to
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Twitter is an interactive platform which also enables people
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and in this way everybody keeps track on all the news around Noorderplantsoen.
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So I would say, that Noorderplantsoen is quite active on social
media and also interacting to the consumers to let them know what is still
possible in Noorderplantsoen. Eventhough, it might seem to be unnecessary, I
think this is a good way to keep people remembering that the Noorderplantsoen
remains beautifull to visit!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-45245578318332432902015-12-21T05:41:00.001-08:002015-12-21T05:43:46.162-08:00Martinitoren, a touristic place itself<div class="MsoNormal">
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In this article we’re going to talk about the Martinitoren! I
have to admit, that I have never climbed the Martinitoren, so maybe I should feel
a little bit ashamed. However, I will be writing about the Martinitoren’s
social media! Because one of the first things tourists would like to see in
Groningen is the Martinitoren, so is social media still relevant? <o:p></o:p></div>
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My visit to the Martinitoren was very short, since you
needed to pay when you wanted to enter the Martinitoren. I wanted to make a
picture of the Martinitoren, but due to its height it was very difficult to see
the Martinitoren in one shot! Therefore, I made a short movie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I definitely had to search for things that could refer to
social media, and in the end I came to the conclusion that there was just nothing
that was referring to their web page or other social media. When searching on
the internet, there’s indeed no website specifically for the Martinitoren. Kind
of strange, but probably this could be explained by the fact that it’s part of
the Martinikerk. In fact, I was able to find something that referred to the
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This QR-code is for the people with a smart phone
convenient to use, however for the elderly this will be useless. On the
website, I had to search for a while before I could find the part on the
Martinitoren. Additionally, when considering the other social media, I could
not find very active usage. The twitter page was lastly used in 2013 and
Facebook posts no messages. Despite this, on Facebook it has a lot of positive ratings
and people post photos on Facebook located at the Martinitoren are also shown. However, in short I would say that the Martinitoren is just very popular and does not put a lot of emphasize on social media to increase its visitors. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06110615779271386569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442004565822780760.post-22866933135508097352015-12-21T03:44:00.003-08:002016-01-20T00:12:16.231-08:00Hotel Prinsenhof, is it worth its money?<div class="MsoNormal">
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Today I’m going to elaborate on my visit to the hotel
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I’ve not been inside Hotel Prinsenhof, but I was able to
look from the outside. Hotel Prinsenhof is a quite expensive hotel which is
near to the Martinitower and of course lies within the Prinsentuin.</div>
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the consumer side, because with hotels and other accommodations it’s common to
give feedback on your stay. This can be done for example at www.booking.com. The
relevance of online reviews on the online sales performance of hotels is
investigated by some researchers. <sup>1 </sup>Specifically, they developed a
model investigating the impact of three variables describing user-generated
content (UGC) namely the number of online reviews, their mean value and their
variance on the online sales performance of the hotels. The model also
considers the online sales’ impact of other variables such as hotel star rating
and prices and size of the hotel city. Results reveal that travellers’ reviews
have a significant impact on online sales, with a 10% increase in traveller
review ratings enhancing online bookings by more than five percent. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a very interesting outcome and I’ve searched for hotel
Prinsenhof on booking.com. Hotel Prinsenhof is rated with a 9.4, which is very
high and has 799 assessments which is fairly high. The assessments are in
general very positive so I would conclude that this can only benefit Hotel Prinsenhof.
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In conclusion I can say that hotel Prinsenhof has a good
position on booking.com which can help them to attract more consumers. However,
they don’t refer to their website which links to the social media they manage.
So, consumers that are just walking by are not specifically referred to visit
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This was one of the most luxurious hotels I have been in China, it was in Chengdu and we were eating for the first time with sticks. </div>
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influence of user-generated content on traveler behavior: An empirical
investigation on the effects of e-word-of-mouth to hotel online bookings. <i><span lang="NL">Elsevier, 27</span></i><span lang="NL">(2), 634-639.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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Today I’m going to talk about a relatively new phenomenon:
Travel blogs! Personally, I love to read and follow on the internet travel
blogs. As I have stated in my previous blog post, the theory web 2.0 touches
upon the changing role of the consumer and a travel blog is a perfect example
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Consumers used social media as a tool to plan travelling so
it functioned namely in the research phase. Trust was of big importance for
consumers to use social media as a guideline. However, the internet has grown
to a participatory platform which enables people to have influence on the
internet as well. People can collaborate and share information. The ability to
share information by means of social media have made substantial changes in the
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Travellab, is a dutch blog written by Serena, Larissa and
Tara. Their passion for travelling has made them set up the blog Travellab, on
which they write weekly 2-3 articles. On social media is Travellab very active,
they post nice pictures on Instagram, have a Facebook-page and post on Youtube
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Travellab receives monthly more than 230000 views and
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These statistics are quite impressive, and this is also
the interesting part for me as well as for the companies of course. Because, we
have covered the sharing part of the consumers role, but how does Travellab
collaborate with companies? Well, Travellab collaborates with companies by
advertising. They promote for them by writing articles about these companies
and receive money for this, because companies feel that they have to a certain
extent influence on other consumers. Additionally, travellab can sometimes
travel for free if they are promoting a certain country/city/hotel/air carrier.
Awesome, isn’t it? So for them the role of consumer has certainly changed in a
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According to one of the readings that we have read during our course Passions of Tourism, tourism has expanded to a major
contributor of the global flows of people including a wide range of activities
and therefore is said to be one of the largest industries in the world. Thus,
this industry seems to be relevant for firms. With regard
to our assignment, I had to choose a theme to investigate tourism so that I
will visit the tourist attractions with a certain angle. My theme will be
social media and I will take several theoretical concepts into account to form
an opinion on the tourists attractions and its usage of social media in the city Groningen. This will
be a large part on my blog, namely to apply theories on the things that I’ve
observed. There is one main theory that I will be using all the time, namely
Web 2.0. Web 2.0 states that from the supplier as well as the consumer side
numerous things have changed, such that there is increasingly more interaction
between the supplier and consumer which causes collaborations between those
two. I find this very interesting and to keep on track on this in a more
concrete way, I have set myself the following 3 objectives: <o:p></o:p></div>
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explore if I’m going to find at the tourist attractions things that put
emphasize on social media. Most of the tourist attractions I have already
visited, so this time it would be interesting to especially focus on the things
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