Breaking It Down

So, my 10 charts are done {there are 12 travel sites, but if you read the post below you know that 2 sites offer no travel suggestions for New Bedford} & now I can start breaking down the information from them to determine the level on online exposure for potential New Bedford visitors to explore. Here's are the sites {historical/cultural/leisure & shopping & food} located in the downtown/National Park area that were suggested from these travel sites {in order of most mentioned to least - but at least once}:

Historical/Cultural/Leisure

Whaling Museum {8}

New Bedford Art Museum {6}

Buttonwood Zoo - including the veteran's memorial {6}

Seamen's Bethel {5}

Zeiterion Theater {5}

Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Gardens {5}

New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park {4}

ArtWorks! {4}

Gallery X {4}

New Bedford Fire Museum {3}

Fort Taber {3}

Your Theater {2}

AHA! {2}

Schooner Ernestina {2}

Ocean Explorium {2}

New Bedford visitors centers {2}

Moby Dick Marathon {1}

New Bedford City Hall {1}

New Bedford National Historic Landmark District {1}

New Bedford Whaling Research Library {1}

summer walking tour program {1}

Whalemen's Memorial {1}

working waterfront {1}

W.H.A.LE {1}

architecture {1}

New Bedford Free Public Library {1}

Crowell's Fine Art {1}

Arthur Moniz Gallery {1}

Food

Freestone's City Grille {4}

Cafe Arpeggio {4}

No Problemo {3}

Cobblestone {3}

Rodman Candleworks {3}

Miguel's Restaurant {3}

Waterfront Grille {3}

Cork Wine & Tapas Bar {2}

Destination Soups {2}

Cafe Balena {2}

Spicy Lime {2}

Catwalk Bar & Grille {1}

Dunkin Donuts {1}

The Green Bean {1}

Brick Pizzeria {1}

Rose Alley Ale House {1}

Ginger Grill {1}

On A Roll Sandwich Shop {1}

Shopping

Travessia Urban Winery {3}

The Bedford Merchant {1}

The Black Whale {1}

This and That {1}

Converse Photo Supply {1}

Be Jeweled {1}

The Crystal Garden {1}

New Bedford Antiques at the Cove {1}

Calico {1}

Artificial Marketplace {1}

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.

Unexpected & Accidental

Awesome article about the surprise benefits of Hurricane Earl {who thought there would be any?} - which hit Cape Cod & the Islands in Massachusetts this weekend. I hope all these people spread the news & comes back to New Bedford!

Escape

Great article by NewEnglandEscape.com: "The Many Pleasures of Summertime on South Coast" on May 30, 2010. Read here.