Speaking of tourism marketing, here’s a really cool new tool from Yahoo! It takes all the flickr photos that are tagged with geographical locations, and allows you to find them on a Yahoo! map.
Tourism officials: start promoting a flickr group immediately. Encourage visitors (and hometown folks) to post photos to flickr, tagging them as part of that group. Link prominently to this new Yahoo! tool, showing photos of people having fun at all the places people might want to visit. You have access to hundreds of photos of real people having a really good time — infinitely more valuable as a marketing tool than a slick brochure. And no printing costs.
