For your information, the great program made by Phil Caine from Rezgo and Bruce Rossard from PhoCusWright

We have arranged some exclusive events, workshops and a social event for bloggers to attend. As an approved blogger we encourage you to attend all of our events, but everything is optional. Here is a brief overview of the summit:

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE OF BLOGGERS SUMMIT EVENTS — WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH

10:30 - 12:00 Welcome meeting, General welcome session (approved bloggers only)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch on your own
13:00m - 14:00 Bloggers Briefing — Meet with Five Minutes of Fame and PhoCusWright@ITB speakers (approved bloggers only)
14:30 - 16:45 Bloggers Summit Workshops — Details below (open to all ITB attendees)
Presented by Tips From The T-List
Moderator: Stephen Joyce – Publisher, Tips From The T-List and CEO, Sentias Software
Panelists:
Martin Schobert, CIO, Austrian National Tourist Office, www.blog.austria.info
Klaus Hildebrand, Editor in Chief, FVW, www.fvw.de/blog
Darren Cronian, Editor, Travel Rants, www.travel-rants.com
Kevin May, Editor, Travolution, www.travolution.co.uk/blog/

14:30 - 15:30 Workshop: The Top Social Media Trends for Travel & Tourism
Travel, tourism and hospitality marketing are being dramatically impacted by social media. There is a never ending list of options of that each travel industry marketer needs to understand and leverage including blogs, user generated content, YouTube, Facebook, Google Connect, Twitter and more. An expert panel of social media experts will present and debate their top social media trends for 2009. Audience participation will add insight and controversy to the discussion. The workshop will conclude with the panel choosing the top three social media trends to pay attention to in your sales and marketing plan in 2009.

15:45m 16:45 Workshop: From Theory to Reality, Putting the Trends to Work for your Organization
Knowing what the trends will be for the next year is one thing, but putting them into practice is totally different. Learn from the panel of experts as they discuss each of the top three social media trends for travel, tourism and hospitality sales and marketing professionals selected in the previous workshop and illustrate how to implement them into your organization. We put the experts to the test and move the bar higher as we analyze the opportunities these trends represent for travel & tourism organizations, and challenge them to show the audience how to achieve successful results.

Time and location TBA Wednesday Evening party

THURSDAY, 12 MARCH
10:15 - 18:30 Attend PhoCusWright@ITB (View program details)

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