The #twitterview – Steven Keenan

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The #twitterview with Steven Keenan on Social Travel Britain

Once a month at Trips 100 we plan to bring you an interview with an industry leader. But as we’re a network of social media influencers, we will be engaging Twitter to help us do it. And as we’re all really busy, we plan to do it in a coffee break. Look out on Twitter for announcements about our next guest each month. Grab a coffee and watch it live, join in or continue the conversation afterwards. And in case your coffee break doesn’t coincide with ours, we’ll be pulling it all together in a monthly blog post.

Our first #twitterview guest was digital social media expert Steven Keenan. Former online travel editor for The Sunday Times and deputy travel editor for The Times, he currently co-runs Travel Perspective, a company that helps others in the industry understand the value of social media in travel. And he recently organised Social Travel Britain 2015– a new conference that debated how to best promote destinations through digital and social media. In an interview with Trips 100 Commissioning Editor Kirstie Pelling he talked about the conference, about what delegates took away and some ‘blue sky’ thinking for the future…

Q1: Tell us a little about Social Travel Britain 2015

Social Travel Britain 2015 recently took place in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Image Salisbury Cathedral

 

 

Q2: Are us Brits keeping up? Or even out in front with our digital efforts?

Delegates at the Salisbury conference debated issues of the future while surrounded by the past

Q3: Picking up from something you said in Q1..video always?

  

Q4: Boiled down to 140 characters, what was the conference message?

 

 

Q5: Can’t wait to hear about plans for next year. Care to share?

Kirstie Pelling is commissioning editor of Trips100. When she isn't writing here, she is one fifth of The Family Adventure Project, a website all about families getting active and having fun together. Along with husband and co-founder Stuart Wickes and their three children, the family have cycled more than 12,000 miles, across more than 20 countries.

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