I see Flickr as a good way to expand a hotel’s web presence. Especially if they are a design-oriented hotel, it’s a great way to show off their style to people looking for ideas.

I say cross post the videos. I understand exclusivity, but I think people’s Internet encounters are so haphazard that the things they see in one place, they probably wouldn’t see somewhere else. In other words, at the scale an individual hotel works at, more locations equals more views with little downside.

On Flickr, do you see it primarily as a tool, or a view generator? If a view generator, how does it compare with time spent on other things?

Keith West
http://www.HotelMarketingSeminars.com

Hi great post and Definitely it will increase hotels’ sales. Thanks for posting

Just wondering, though – what is your video strategy for Flickr? I see you’ve already posted a video there; do you plan to cross-post to YouTube?

I’m sort of torn between the two options. Cross-posting gives more visibility, but keeping videos exclusively on YouTube could result in higher views and popularity.

For us, at Tiara Hotels & Resorts, Flickr has becomed a very usefull tool, especially for our sales and groups departments. Since we have a profile there, we had more than 1400 views, which is a pretty interesting number.

We’ve recently upgraded to the Premium account, and we will definitely improve our presence there with the inclusion of videos, as well as creating each country hotel collection, that at this moment will be only Portugal (2 hotels) and France (3 hotels).

Cheers