Maximizing Social Media in Managed Travel

With Tim Hines

This presentation covers how business travelers are using social media and how these technologies are changing the corporate travel landscape. Travel managers will learn best practices on how to integrate social media into a travel program from real world examples. Suppliers will hear new tricks-of-the-trade on maximizing their social media voice.

Tim Hines is a technology evangelist, consultant and keynote speaker specializing in social media, mobile technology and entrepreneurship. Based in San Francisco, Tim has been working in marketing, event ticketing and transportation industries for over ten years with companies such as Vendini, Tribune Company, TicketMaster and the CIA.

Tim has been very active in the business travel industry; he is a member of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE).

Tim has become a prominent connector in the entrepreneurship and technology community, where he serves as General Manager for Pitch Training Camp, coordinated Inspire Startups and is a graduate of theStartup Leadership Program. He also served on the Community Advisory Board for the Future Founders Foundation helping underserved youth explore entrepreneurship.

Tim obtained his degree in marketing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.