Creative tourism marketing and social media management.

Abstract

Abstract Creative tourism, due to its interactive nature and lively cultural exchange between locals and travellers, particularly lends itself to the opportunities presented by social media marketing. This is especially true when it comes to blogs, video posts, or (live) story updates on social media. Care should be given to always have a professional strategy in content marketing: choosing one social media platform over another has to be in line with your company's strategic communication goals and may be aided by other competent partners, such as professional digital content creators. Further, establishing a publication guideline in the form of an editorial calendar can help creative tourism managers better reap the benefits of social media marketing. This has been demonstrated in highlighting the example of Kreativ Reisen Österreich Creative Tourism Austria, which over the years has successfully built up an online community of creative travellers in the German-speaking parts of Europe. Regarding future trends in digital marketing, suffice to say that good content, and now context, will always matter and interactive content will become increasingly mainstream. An interesting context creative tourism could seek for the purpose of its continued proliferation worldwide is an association with destination video storytelling. As virtually all tourism destinations employ various video platforms, and live video formats, to highlight their travel offers, creative tourism is especially likely to head to the forefront of this type of social media marketing tool.