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Ia Orana Partners,
Tahiti Tourisme North America (TTNA) is pleased to bring you the following covering recent enhancements and improvements to our website, www.tahiti-tourisme.com.
TTNA's website is one the major promotional tools for our destination in North America.
The site not only provides a platform for greater visibility of our destination, but it also acts as the main source for information on our islands, hotels, airlines, cruise lines and yacht charters to name a few. In addition, it is the main engine behind our lead creation functionality and provides specific product offers for distribution.
As we all know, it is imperative that we keep up with current technology developments and continue to improve our networking tools to benefit both customers and partners. It is essential that our website remains engaging, yet easy to use, and interactive as well as quick, and to the point.
Mauru’uru roa!
Tahiti Tourisme North America
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Islands Pages
 Each island page has been completely revamped to be more engaging and interactive through the inclusion of zoomable maps, searchable videos, and a mini photo gallery.
Using Google Map technology, each island features an interactive map that allows zoom-in.
The next phase will provide “pinning” which will showcase hotel, restaurant, and activities mapping, as well as pop-up dialogue.
To find out more about the changes completed on the each of the islands pages, please click here.
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Multimedia Center
A new interface was developed to display videos on the TTNA site in a searchable library. TTNA is populating the video center with product videos, press clips and visitor videos directly from YouTube. In this interactive video center, viewers can browse videos by category, island and keyword.
They can also forward videos to their friends by email or share them through social networks. Partners can have videos added to the interface by uploading their video directly to YouTube and advising us the YouTube 11-13 digit code, or send us the video file directly to our webteam at feedback@tahiti-tourisme.com and we will upload for you. To visit our Video center, please click here
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TTNA’s Photo Gallery has been completely revamped with a more appealing new look, which enables greater search capability and enhanced file tagging for better optimization.
The new format allows visitors to the photo gallery to search photos by category, island and keyword.
The categories include culture, hotels, islands, activities, people and nature. Links to additional photo galleries and webcams are also featured on this page.
To visit our photo gallery, please click here.
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New Functionalities
To tap into online social networks and enhance the site’s viral reach, TTNA added features that encourage readers to share Tahiti Tourisme’s website content, photos, and videos. Using a “Share This” button, readers can share with family, friends and professionals through over forty-one social media, bookmarking and tagging sites and tools, including; Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter.  This function allows TTNA to touch a larger audience and to adopt a more viral strategy. We have added below descriptions of a few social networks to better illustrate the functionally and added value of each of them.
Facebook allows visitors to share contents and pages with other consumers.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging tool that allows users to send and get access to other user’s updates known as tweets, which are text- based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Flickr is an image hosting website and online community platform, which allows users to share personal pictures.
We have included below the 2008 social bookmarking and sharing trends of tahiti-tourisme.com.
Of the visitors who used the "Bookmark" button, below are the functions used most often in order of preference.
- Google bookmarks 18%
- IE Favorites 16%
- Facebook 15%
- MySpace 8%
- Yahoo MyWeb 8%
- MSN Live 7%
- Other 6%
- Delicious 5%
- Digg 4%
- StumbleUpon 3%
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Press Page: “As Seen In”
 The press section was also redesigned to showcase all coverage and media efforts related to our destination in a searchable database.
The name of the publication and the article are posted, accompanied by a brief introduction.
Visitors can view the entire article by clicking on “Visit.” To view recent coverage of our islands, please click here.
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Awards Page 
TTNA added a new functionality to the awards page, which enables visitors to get access to a list of Awards attributed to our destination.
The Awards are organized by categories including Spa, Cruise, Island, and hotel.
For each award, the logo and the name of the publication is posted as well as the year and description. To view the entire list of awards attributed to our islands, please click here.
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Home page
 The homepage is possibly the most important page when visiting a website. It is from the home page that visitors get a first glimpse of our islands. It is thus very important for it to be engaging in order to attract them into website.
TTNA added new functionalities on our home page, such as flash animations that link off to the “Awards” page and the Press page titled “As Seen In.”
Additional enhancements were completed to make the home page more attractive such as a new Tahiti Specialist Locator box as well as a new “Free Vacation Guide” Box.
In addition, the footer at the bottom of TT.com has been redesigned to provide a more professional look while providing an easy navigation to trade resources. Please click here to view our home page.
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For more information, please contact
us at media@tahiti-tourisme.com
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