28 September 2007

OVER A MILLION HITS IN LESS THAN 9 MONTHS ON THE TOURISM SOCIETY WEBSITE

The Tourism Society website, www.tourismsociety.org , topped a million hits in early September with a record high of 1,012,577 hits. The majority of visits came from within Great Britain with just 26% from other countries including the USA .

The main features of the website include the Tourism Society events calendar with downloadable booking forms, the member-only pages with free research & statistics, an online database of Tourism Consultants plus news and links to other tourism organisations.

Flo Powell, Executive Director commented 'This is fantastic news for the Society and proves that we offer products and services that are of interest to the industry. Our recent improvements including a redesigned journal and high quality regional seminars and networking events have definitely helped drive more traffic to the website.'

The Society's events are held nationwide with events in October taking place in Cardiff , Exeter , Edinburgh and London on topics as wide-ranging as The Impact of Transport infrastructure on Tourism, Destination Marketing, Accommodation Marketing and the new DMO in the South West.

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