Travel Gossip reveals top posts for 2018
Nearly 21,000 posts were made on the travel industry’s Facebook forum Travel Gossip in 2018.
According to figures posted this week, these posts received 134,580 comments and 244,099 reactions.
Founder Bruce Martin said the most ‘impactful posts’ related to the tragic murder of TUI travel agent Cassie Hayes. A campaign on Travel Gossip raised over £7,000 for her family.
Here are the top 10 posts of 2018:
1 Cassie Hayes RIP http://bit.ly/2s16a7x
2 Regent Offer http://bit.ly/2Ao3oOh (Maxim Mardari)
3 Atlantis Offer http://bit.ly/2BVGLR4 (Magdalena Tabaka)
4 Passport Copy http://bit.ly/2BUVlIv (Gavin Morton)
5 Grandstand Comp http://bit.ly/2TmFpWR (Laura Price)
6 Cypriana Holidays http://bit.ly/2LIfLsK (Tanya Pace)
7 Who misses Viewdata? http://bit.ly/2EXPh69 (Jayde Nassa)
8 Mr & Mrs Annoying http://bit.ly/2TmI5Up (David Gregg)
9 Big Up to Easyjet http://bit.ly/2CFXoSq (Lisa OConnell)
10 Dino joins Transun http://bit.ly/2GLsPPy (Dino Toouli)
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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