Save the Dates, Spread the Love—Because It’s Not the Same Without You #eTS20
Register for eTourism Summit, apply for an eTSY Award, and share a free virtual registration with a travel colleague who’s been furloughed or laid off due to the pandemic. We want everyone to be there. Read more here.
‘Let’s Go There’: Labor Day Traffic & What’s Coming Down the Pike?
Labor Day weekend road trips and American traveler sentiment surveys about plans for travel in the next six months are telling us that the pace is picking up. Check out the research here.
Q & A: ‘I Made an Old School Radio Jingle for Outer Banks, NC’
Executive director Lee Nettles, North Carolina’s Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, was inspired as a kid by Schoolhouse Rock, so he wrote an original jingle to get out the health and safety message for all-important summer visitors. We love this.
Out-of-This-World: Visualizing the Social Media Universe of MAUs as Facebook Approaches 3 Billion
Brilliant design captures our imagination as social media networks are re-imagined as planets. Counting in billions, Facebook monthly active users surges toward a new benchmark. See more here.
People & Places Plus Jobs
Halloween and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are Coronavirus victims; Cory Lee visits 37 countries and all seven continents in a wheelchair; WTM goes virtual and job postings we’ve found. More here.