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Increasingly, your guests are no longer watching TV, listening to the radio, reading magazines, and certainly not picking up flyers.

This trend is only set to continue and strengthen with each progressive generation. The digital revolution is here to stay, so to try and fight against this is like attempting to hold back the ocean when the tide has changed. Rather than pretending this isn’t happening, your resort should adapt to these shifts and fully embrace the digital revolution.

Digital advertising can actually be a much more effective means of reaching your customers if utilised effectively. This includes well-designed, responsive websites, an engaging daily presence on all major social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest) and a regularly updated blog with interesting and share-worthy posts.

A responsive website, social media presence and engaging blog should all be standard practice within your resort’s digital marketing strategy and should be seen as the basics that replace TV, radio and print advertising. These basics can be built upon substantially though, and one way is to organise a media trip from the GoTimeshare media team to stay at your timeshare resort!

Get ready for our amazing upcoming media trip to #clcworld Resort in Malaga https://t.co/xtVTa2AfVf#GoShareMalaga pic.twitter.com/weij1TzCAv

— ✈ Simon E. Turkas Ⓥ (@SimonTurkas) 22 de junio de 2016

Organised blog trips have been standard practice for a number of years, with international travel bloggers travelling to resorts and hotels and writing blog posts to help promote them. These kind of posts have been very effective in the past but are nothing new.

How does a GoTimeshare Media Trip differ from a standard blog trip?

A GoTimeshare media trip is so much more than a standard blog trip resulting in far greater promotion for your resort, the destination and the various excursions that your resort offers. Increasingly guests are booking holidays based on seeing and trying new experiences and places, and for many a week by the pool just won’t cut it.

A GoTimeshare media trip builds on a standard blog trip, as there are blog posts written about the trip, but it is so much more than text and a few basic photographs. Often a blog trip will only involve a solo blogger. While they may be a great writer, and good photographer, this is often all they bring to the table. A GoTimeshare media trip doesn’t just rely on one person for all the promotion but instead a team of specialists.

Simon Emilio Turkas 

Simon believes that travel is one of the best things anyone can do in life, as it literally expands your horizons, opening your eyes and mind to new cultures, experiences and places. Through these media trips he hopes he can inspire others to really appreciate what an amazing world we live in. He enjoys writing, photography and filmmaking, fitness, eating delicious (vegan) food and drinking copious amounts of coffee!

John Dale Beckley: 

These media trips suit him perfectly as he is not one for lounging by the pool all day, but instead he loves to keep active and maximise his travel experience by seeking out adventure. Part of this could be because of John’s upbringing in South Africa. He enjoys keeping fit, and watching and playing almost all types of sport. Some have also called him the best iPhone photographer in Lanzarote, where he currently lives, but he definitely has some competition in Sibo!

Siboney Tabares King: Sibo is a professional photographer and filmmaker with a wealth of talent and experience in visual media. Up until recently he was balancing his passion for photography and filmmaking with another job, but made the decision to concentrate on making his passion into a career, and this has definitely paid off. There is a huge demand for the photos and videos that Sibo produces, due to their high quality.

Sibo’s work includes travel, real estate, and sport related photos and videos. Sibo is much more comfortable behind the camera, and he lets his fantastic work speak for itself. It definitely lives up to his tagline: “It’s a visual world”. Sibo is constantly innovating and is like a solo media production team with all the latest camera technology, and editing software!

Website – sibotk.com/

Through this team of specialists a GoTimeshare media trip is far better than a standard blog trip as the text, photographs, videos and marketing will be produced by professionals who specialise in these areas. This is opposed to one single person trying to be effective in everything but ultimately being unable to succeed in all areas.

#GoShareMalaga case study

Recently Simon, John and Sibo travelled to the Malaga region in the south of Spain, to stay at one of CLC World’s beautiful resorts, and promote the various excursion companies that CLC World works with.

This trip was a huge success as the team went on a variety of amazing excursions and posted updates live updates on social media. This created a great live immediacy and buzz to the trips each day with many people following along during the week to find out what the team were doing.

Puerto Banús baby #marbella #puertobanus #gosharemalaga #clcworld @clcworld @gotimeshare1 w/ @marbellayachtcharters

Una foto publicada por Its A Visual World. (@sibotk) el 6 de Jul de 2016 a la(s) 11:11 PDT

The live element of the trip created a buzz and engagement with the audience watching across social media. This was only one part of the package though, as following the end of the week in Malaga the second part of the work began which was equally as important. By its very nature the live content’s value is in its immediacy, such as this live Periscope broadcast from a sailing excursion with Marbella Yacht Charters.

LIVE on #Periscope: Sailing into Porto Banús with the Marbella Yacht Charters team! #GoShareMalaga #clcworld https://t.co/YAtlZ8I6vN

— ✈ Simon E. Turkas Ⓥ (@SimonTurkas) 1 de julio de 2016

More time was then put into the content following the end of the week which would create a lasting value. The team continued to promote the hashtag #GoShareMalaga across social media, John put together a making of video, Sibo edited various photos and videos, and Simon wrote a series of blog posts integrating the photos, videos and social media posts.

Stunning morning parasailing flight and afternoon in magnificent #Málaga city https://t.co/p7yOrspiFm #GoShareMalaga pic.twitter.com/obJrPYaPuc

— ✈ Simon E. Turkas Ⓥ (@SimonTurkas) 21 de julio de 2016

All of this amazing content is now online continuing to provide value to both CLC World and the companies that kindly took the team on the excursions. Unlike TV, radio and print advertising that loses its value quickly after it is shown, digital marketing such as this has a lasting value as it remains online for new audiences to find and get inspired by. Do not hesitate to book a GoTimeshare media trip for your timeshare resort, you will be amazed by the results!



Gotimeshare media tripJohn BeckleySiboney Tabers KingSimon Turkas Old Mill Resort at Gruene in Texas affiliates with DAE




