Useful websites and newsletters
This section focuses on useful travel and tourism-related social networking resources, search engines and online tools, as well as useful tourism-related newsletters to subscribe to.
There are useful links across the website, especially in the industry programmes section and the A-Z of tourism associations.
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Travel and Tourism-Related social networking
- Online communities such as TripAdvisor (http://www.tripadvisor.com), FaceBook (http://www.facebook.com), IgoUgo (http://www.igougo.com), Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) and RealTravel (http://realtravel.com)
- Video sharing communities such as YouTube (http://www.YouTube.com) and Travelistic (http://www.travelistic.com)
- Picture-sharing communities, such as Flickr (http://www.flickr.com)
- Blogs such as the Cape Town Tourism Blog (http://capetown.travel/blog), TravelBlog (http://www.travelblog.org) and Travel Rants (http://www.travel-rants.com
- Interactive maps like Google Maps (http://www.maps.google.com)
- Online travel forums such as the Thorn Tree forum (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/index.jspa) on Lonely Planet (http://www.LonelyPlanet.com), and the Fodor’s Travel Talk forums (http://www.fodors.com/community/)
Travel search engines
- Bezurk (http://www.bezurk.com)
- Expedia (http://expedia.com)
- Fare Chase (http://farechase.yahoo.com)
- Hotels Combined (http://www.hotelscombined.com)
- Kayak (http://www.kayak.co.uk)
- Momondo (http://www.momondo.com)
- Travel Supermarket (http://www.travelsupermarket.com)
Online tools
- Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/)
- Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts)
- Skype (http://www.skype.com)
- Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics)
- Google Website Optimiser (http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer)
- Google Insights (http://www.google.com/insights/search)
- Alexa (http://www.alexa.com)
Travel, tourism and other related newsletters
- Travelwires (http://www.travelwires.com)
- Project 2010 (http://www.project2010.co.za)
- Cape Town Partnership (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za)
