Charts

Today, I met with my thesis advisor to go over chapters {content & sequence} & then I got to work finishing the research/compiling material for my social media marketing chapter. This is the one I'm making all those charts for...

I decided on the top travel/trip planning sites to gather material for these charts. These were either websites that I knew of & had used before {trip advisor, lonely planet, etc} or ones gathered from a basic Google search {which is probably how people go about planning a day trip anyways}. Here they are {the number in parentheses refers to the amount of activities suggested for New Bedford - remember I'm focusing on day trips, so I'm leaving lodging out}:

1. Trazzler {3}

2. Yahoo Travel {49}

3. Visit New England/90 Things To Do in MA {1)

4. Trip Advisor {197}

5. Lonely Planet {8}

6. Yelp {321}

7. Mass Vacation {33}

8. Southeastern Massachusetts Convention & Visitors Bureau {25}

9. Virtual Tourist {12}

10. Travel Channel {0}

11. Short drives {3}

12. Frommers {0}

A number of sites {specifically, Travel Channel & Frommers} listed nothing for New Bedford. Clearly, a chart has not been made for these sites, but I will include that they had no suggestions because it is pertinent to the level of exposure New Bedford has on tourism websites - & these two are heavyhitters in that realm.