Twitter-thon to help NZ tourism
Travel bloggers around the world are uniting to tell the world New Zealand is a great place to travel and there is no better time to do it than now.
The days of March 21, 22, and 23 have been set aside for 72 hours of content generation about travelling to New Zealand.
#Blog4NZ is the brainchild of New Zealand travel bloggers Jim McIntosh, from Christchurch, and John Reese.
Event organiser Craig Martin, of Indie Travel Media, said, “We want Twitter dominated by Tweets about travelling to New Zealand.
“We hope that all travel bloggers rally behind this cause and publish as many articles as possible throughout this period about travelling to New Zealand.
“New Zealand is one of the world’s greatest travel destinations and has been a great source for many travel bloggers and travel entrepreneurs,†Martin added.
“For many northern hemisphere countries it is the furthest most spot they can travel. It has been the place from where so much innovation has come with regard to travel – the home of bungy jumping and the birthplace of hop-on hop-off backpacker travel.
“NZ led the way in independent hostels throughout the eighties and nineties. It is also a country where tourism is the number one contributor to GDP, where the Minister of Tourism is the PM – that is how important tourism is.
Said Dan Roberts of Travel Generation, “This is the travel community saying, ‘hey, go to NZ’ – if there is one place that should be on your travel list this year it is NZ.”
“This is something the travel community can do to support not only all the businesses in Christchurch, but everyone in New Zealand.”
Over the next few days, event organisers will be working with the New Zealand tourism industry to gather resources, images and content that travel bloggers from all over the world will be access to generate their stories during the 72 hours of blog4NZ.
At the same time the call is going out to all travel bloggers, travel experts, photographers and social media users to show the power of the Internet to make a real long term difference to those travel businesses suffering in New Zealand as a result of the earthquake.
For more information go to http://blog4nz.indietravelmedia.com/
Ian Jarrett
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