Travel & Surf
Travelling and Surfing are two
activities which take place in two different domains. We travel around the
world, and we surf the World Wide Web. Travelers like Backpackers do this at
the same time. This blog post is about how tourists travel and surf…
The
Social Travel Revolution
The digital uprising led the whole
world to have unprecedented change in technology. Consequently, the growth of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the last two decades has
dramatically renovated the tourism industry.
Indeed, New Media has changed the world and in particular, it has
changed the way of travelling around the world. Today, thanks to innovations in
technology and high-speed internet, tourists can book their own flight and
hotels online, choose to stay in a stranger’s house, and rather than entering
that unfamiliar restaurant with anxiety, search online reviews on their mobile
while connected to the hotel Wi-Fi.
Now more people are travelling
than ever before, and technology has also given us more information on the
place we are going than ever before.
In the digital age, we’ve become
a generation of Digital Travelers who plan, manage and book travel online.
Today, most of the hotels offer
free Internet access (included in the price of accommodation), if you have a
notebook in your backpack. And so it wasn't a big surprise that recently the
term of a backpacker has changed to flash packer.
Defining Social Media for
Travelers
Social Media has been defined as the
social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication
techniques, which allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content. The
most wonderful factor of social media is we can access it anytime, anywhere
from any device.
Thanks to Social Media services
like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Buzz or blogs, it’s much easier to
communicate and keep in regular contact with the home base and travel buddies
we met on the road, while travelling. Especially for the people at home, it’s a
good way to follow your travel route, as they know where you are, and as a
result they will feel much more relaxed.
Mobile on the Go...
It is also changing every phase
of hospitality – from finding a hotel, to checking in, to unlocking your door
and personalizing your stay. As travel is inherently mobile, travelers expect
to use their mobile devices to enrich their travel experiences.
How
many? How fast?
Thus, we can see the magnitude of
the social travel revolution is really fascinating and we can assume that more
extraordinary changes going to took place in this digitized society in near
future.
CJP Kulathilaka
SC/PG/MAMM/2016/2017/019
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140711132236-16491 4502-how-travel-becomes-easy-with-social-media-evolution
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