Views On Tourism is now part of the professional online network LinkedIn!
A crucial action to any player in the tourism sector is networking in order to get individual success and to obtain economic, socio-cultural and environmental sustainable destination development.
Bangladeshi tourism players are generally quite good at face to face networking, but why not take these skills to a higher level? An acknowledged successful tourism strategy is to enhance cooperation between the many tourism players national, regional and international. Based on my experience, and input from several local tourism players, I believe the Bangladeshi tourism could gain a lot by increasing cooperation between the many different players in the industry. The objective to launch the online ‘Views On Tourism’ group in summer 2009 was hence to draw attention to an efficient network tool.
LinkedIn is an online interconnected network of more than 50 million experienced professionals from around the world. Last time I checked, December 2009, over 126.000 professional members were related to tourism and more than 16.000 members were linked to Bangladesh. Through LinkedIn you can easily find, be introduced to, and collaborate with qualified professionals that you need to work with to accomplish your goals.
If you are not yet a LinkedIn member I request you to go to www.linkedin.com and become one. When a member, start filling in your professional profile and build your network.
LinkedIn members have the option to join a large number of professional groups, at the moment there are 943 tourism groups and 229 Bangladeshi groups. In these groups members can get together online to discuss and network on specific topics.
I proudly invite you to become a member of the group ‘Views On Tourism – Bangladeshi network and discussion’, which is a professional online group joining national, regional and international players related to, or interested in, the Bangladeshi tourism sector.
The potential of this network group is huge! Imagine a national tourism network where members can interact, national as well international, to exchange views, find new employees, develop sustainable destinations, start up innovative products or launch investment possibilities. The ultimate network goal is to unite the professional, knowledgeable and visionary people and cooperate to encourage a sustainable tourism movement in Bangladesh. Read the group profile and become a member by following this link: Views On Tourism – Bangladeshi network and discussion.
The future development of the Views On Tourism network group depends largely on the numbers of members, their profile, network and involvement. If you find the Views On Tourism network appealing, please help making it stronger by inviting relevant people from your own network.
I furthermore recommend Bangladeshi tourism players to read the blog article ‘The complexity of tourism – and what to do about it’, which provides an outline on the many players involved in a tourism industry, why networking is particularly crucial to the tourism industry and how to improve your own networking skills to achieve individual success as well as a sustainable destination development.
This article is written by Majbritt Thomsen, administrator on ‘Views On Tourism’.
