Planeta Responsible Tourism Week 2010 Success

Imagine a conference with no registration fees and no jet lag: More than 100 people participated in the 2010 Responsible Tourism Week, a free demonstration of Web 2.0

After operating the second Responsible Tourism week, Planeta.com is now planning the next steps and is asking for help with its survey

“YOUR TURN – To help us plan the next steps and to help evaluate the reach of Responsible Tourism Week we ask you to please answer this survey” Says Ron Mader
www.surveymonkey.com/s/rtweek2010

Early Results from the Survey are as follows:

What did you learn?

It showed me some of the potential the social web has. Compared to physical events I found it a bit difficult to follow up, not to distract myself and to keep in ind that I intended to attend a global conference (naturally my attention on a physical event is almost exclusively on the event) and to make personal contacts. twitter was quite a new way of communication for me and it seems somewhat useful

I’ve learned i need to use flickr and You tube! I need to create an easier platform for volunteers past and future and local partners to engage – inertia rules. anything that can alter that even a little would be good!

If you shared information, were you able to measure the reach (number of impressions, page views, unique visitors, retweets?)

few of my tweets have been retweetet, I had good views on few flickr pix but I havent tracked anything beyond that.

Would you like to continue using the #rtweek2010 hashtag or would you suggest an alternative?
till #rtweek2011 it seems great

When should we schedule the next Responsible Tourism Week?

why not this year?

Would you like to collaborate with others? If so, what interests you?

food was a great topic. so was local travel. accessibility of destinations would be interesting as well. and storytelling.

an international association of responsible volunteer sending and hosting organisations – I need to get my head round how we can devise a low cost effective way of demonstrating responsibility in this field

Can you suggest any ways to stay in contact with others working toward responsible tourism?

having a table with all the social media platforms the participants use would help to connect on multiple platforms

Can you suggest any ways of creating or finding financial support for Responsible Tourism Week?
 

I bet EU has some money somewhere!
 

Tips:

• Walk the talk – Practice responsible tourism where you are.
• Play nice! – Use Responsible Tourism Week as an opportunity to build healthy relationships at the local and international levels.
• Make it delicious – Eat good local food and let visitors know where to treat their taste buds well.
• Be generous! – Compliment someone via twitter, fave a photo or write a testimonial on Flickr, give a thumbs up to a video on YouTube.
• Be creative – Make your own poster or graphic showing responsible tourism in action
• Have your say – What is responsible tourism? Please answer the rt survey
• Show your savvy – Use the hashtag: #rtweek2010

Valere Tjolle

  Valere Tjolle is editor of the Sustainable Tourism Report Suite, special offer at: www.travelmole.com/stories/1142003.php