How to create a tourism boom

Day by day more and more people are discovering that posting free informative and creatively written articles on the net will help you sell online more than expensive advertisements or anything else. Many are beginning to wake up to the fact that the main currency on the net is free information and that any online marketing campaign that appreciates that fact is bound to reap untold riches and success.

This marketing tool is being made even more effective by the day as more and more web sites, that enjoy high traffic, choose to provide the facility for articles to be posted free.

However one of the industries that have been rather slow in waking up to this gold mine is the tourism sector.
Those of us who may have been lucky enough to go for a holiday in some far off place recently, will know where they got their information. The Internet is naturally where millions of potential tourists and travelers hungrily seek information every day on where they are headed.

And tourism practitioners have a huge advantage when they choose to use articles. In which other industry can you lavishly describe your product, right up to the tiny details without losing your readers - especially on the net? Where else can you mention the name of your establishment, bang in the middle of the article and still retain its' respectability as an informative, useful piece?

And you really don't have to limit yourself to writing about your product. You can write about hundreds of other subjects that are closely related to it.

For example a small tourist camp in the middle of some game park in Africa where lions are found, can write a fascinating piece about the habits of these well-loved big cats. All they have to do is ensure that the resource box, usually at the bottom of the article, refers back to them.

You can then offer either a regular ezine, refer people to your web site, or find another way to supply tons and tons of free information to people who are guaranteed to be hungry for it.
There are scores of other directions your articles can take. From giving useful tips to historical, to writing about the cuisine on offer. A piece can even be pegged on a current news item. The possibilities are really endless.

Even obscure unknown hotels can post articles about their neighbourhood or the city where they are situated and dramatically change their fortunes.

The really exciting thing about the net is that it allows the small fry to compete and get the better of the big fish. So while all those other lavish destinations are spending millions advertising their destinations all over the world, the small guy can quietly post their articles on the net and get much better results with a budget that is next to zero.