In travel and tourism,  content abundance threatens to overwhelm us. There is much more content than anyone wants or needs.

• For tourists it has become difficult to find useful resources such as travel tips and regional information online: for most searches result pages are full of advertising, dumped into the Web by travel and hotel booking sites.
• For publishers, travel bloggers and tourism providers it is equally difficult to get found and get the word out. Social media, as an alternative to search, are full of redundant and repeated information, too.

So you want to find relevant information on this hotel? Google search by name yields 200.000+ resources, you have the choice.

Travel marketers as well as travel bloggers suffer from the increasing effort for getting found and being heard. At the same time, they feed repeated and copied content into the Web and social media. Valuable existing content is doomed to disappear soon in the dustbin of history (unless promoted) and will never be referred to. 

For instance, it rarely happens that a travel blogger refers to another travel blogger when presenting a great tourism destination. Or imagine, TripAdviser referring to Booking.com when presenting the amenities of a hotel (that would be downright hilarious, wouldn't it?).

Content curation means making meaning out of the flood of data by researching and mining resources on a specific subject and building new, useful content from the material. Curation, in contrast to aggregation, means that value is added and synergy created. 

The solution: content curation

Content overflow in the web and social media heavily impacts tourism and travel: marketing content swamps all media channels. Responsible, human curation is the best way to maintain the internet's specific value for tourism information and to offer travelers valuable insights, tips and cultural knowledge.

Content Curation and Travel: Travelers are looking for easy ways to find what they are searching for, within countless amounts of irrelevant information out there. For this, curation is the 'cure' - magic.piktochart.com 

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme.

Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation

- Beth Kanter, Content Curation Primer

here comes the solution. The word is -- Curation. Bob Lefsetz: Maybe Twitter's unfixable. Maybe it's a fad like MySpace. Something gee-whiz, brand new, that is succeeded by a platform with more functionality. Twitter told us we want instant news. But it never turned into a comprehensible service. It's the internet at its worst.
- huffingtonpost / Steve Rosenbaum

Can Curation Save Twitter?
About curation vs. aggregation:

Content curation, I believe, is a foundational key to how to both create (from scratch) and share (other people’s work in your industry) great content your fans and followers will engage with and read. - searchenginejournal.com - 2015

A Quick Glance on Digital Content Curation

• 2008 Eric Schmidt: The internet is becoming a "cesspool"
• 2009 Content curator - social media job of the future?
• 2010 Steve Rosenbaum: - Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay
• 2011 Beth Kanter: Content Curation Primer
• 2011-2015 on Quora: What are the best content curation tools?
• 2012 Curata: Content Curation Adoption Survey (PDF)
• 2013 iMedia C.: Why marketers are embracing content curation
• 2013 PTBA: Why do travel brands curate content and why should travel bloggers care?
• 2014 tech.co: 10 tools to leverage content curation in marketing
• 2014 bufferapp: the busy person's guide to content curation

Travel curation for tourism pros

• Travel agencies and tour operators
• Accommodation providers and hosts

 Tourists who want to book a hotel are fed up with meaningless and irrelevant 'tourism' content on hotel web sites or booking sites, unmistakably written for SEO purposes. In contrast, hosts who curate and share relevant and useful regional tourism information are much more likely to win the traveler's heart. Showing interest in the customer's needs and creating curiosity are the best call to action.

Curation for marketers

• Marketing for hotels, lodging, accommodation
• Destination Managements Companies (DMCs)
• Tour operators

Publishers and marketers in the tourism and hospitality industry adopt curation for content marketing to create more engaging landing pages etc. Plus, they discover that curating a specific subject helps to "own" this subject better than content creation.

Curation for travelers, bloggers

• Tourists can put their notes into a meaningful context - in real time, while traveling
• Bloggers can do so when preparing posts and thus add more value to their content

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