Started by Dougie Baird @bairdstravel with great help from @SusanMcNaughton @AileenLamb and Fiona Drane @BrightLightMkg
What is #Scotlandhour?
A monthly chat on Twitter. Where to stay, where to eat ,
what to do in Bonnie Scotland . A chance for travellers to plan a visit to Scotland. It has now been live for six months and getting more popular every month .
Hopefully it will become a valuable marketing tool for our country.
No one else has used Twitter to promote tourism.
When is it on?
Last Wednesday of the month 9 till 10
When`s the next #Scotlandhour
We are having a special on St. Andrews day 30th November. Hopefully getting more and more people involved. Please feel free to join #Scotlandhour.
What do you do?
Type #[hash key] then Scotlandhour like this #Scotlandhour
You can put this before or after a short tweet about great places in Scotland .
You can also add links or photographs.
Example
Touring Scotland, thinking of staying in the highlands or even a day trip from the city #Scotlandhour can help.
http://www.susanmcnaughton.co.uk/2011/08/using-hash-tags-on-twitter/
What is Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".
Future for #Scotlandhour
Tweet up in bar in Edinburgh Scotland`s capital.
Possible weekly #Scotlandhour during the summer season
Hopefully it will grow from strength to strength and one day become a great advert for our country.
Capturing the excitement of #ScotlandHour http://chirpstory.com/li/3327
#Scotlandhour plan before you fly
Latest news
Aileen Lamb
Project Manager - delivering tourism and food & drink projects at Scottish Enterprise.
Aileen has put together a blog which is maybe a better way of explaining what #Scotlandhour is all about
""Is there anybody out there?" Sometimes we wonder if anyone in the Twittersphere is listening to our Tweets. We put lots of thought into trying not to be to pushy; in being witty and interesting and offering something useful to readers. A small group of us have developed what we think is a really powerful way of joining up the voices of Scottish tourism businesses - the idea is called
#ScotlandHour - and the more businesses who get involved the more effective our choir of voices becomes. #ScotlandHour is - a 1 hour Twitter based chat, on the last Wednesday of each month between 9-10pm GMT. We are encouraging everyone involved in Scottish tourism to get online at this time, and really talk up our amazing country. Answer questions from visitors and let customers into some of our best kept secrets - use Twitter to encourage more visitors to enjoy Scotland. To help keep track of all the questions and answers we use a #ScotlandHour (a hash-tag).
This month, #ScotlandHour falls on St Andrews Day - what an opportunity to promote Scotland to the world, and @VisitStAndrews is our co-host for the evening. We'd like as many businesses as possible to get involved - come online and have some really great tourism chat. Encourage your guests and visitors to get involved too.
Talk to any of us on twitter - this is a simple way to increase the conversation about Scotland @Bairdstravel @2edinburgh @aileenlamb @HIEHamilton
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Comments from other Tweeters about our October #ScotlandHour ScottishQuads
"@bairdstravel Enjoyed #Scotlandhour enormously last night, great idea, its great to share the best of Scotland with the twittersphere." EeuskOban EE-USK Oban
@BAIRDSTRAVEL look forward to a St Andrews day #ScotlandHour @ClunyBankHotel @kingsmillshotel check out #scotlandhour 30/11/11 9-10pm ran by @bairdstravel, tweet about yourselves and area"