Being in the travel industry myself, I might as well spill some secrets on what link baiting ideas have worked rather than explaining the whole concept. It’s usually different for every industry as there are always different interests and news. Have a look at some of these ideas and it may actually help you implement a link baiting campaign for your own sites:

1/ Breaking Travel News - Perhaps a bit tough to get your hands on this material if your not on the spot or an official or authoritative site with resources, but nevertheless, it still works. Have a look at this article about the most expensive hotel in the world. Even a newspaper site is clued on about social networking.

Its been dugg almost 900 times and Im sure it will continue to increase as it gets more exposure through Digg.

2/ Quality Travel Blog Posts - If you can’t get the latest travel news, a quality blog post similar to top 9 unique structures soon to be built would also attract readers attention. Good quality images are the key in this article since most readers are more interested in visual material.

This particular article got even more diggs:

3/ Travel Flash Programs - Here’s fairly simple concept that most travel related blogs and sites would probably link to. A quick link to a time zone checker is always useful for frequent travelers. This page alone has 27,855 links according to marketleap.

4/ Funny travel videos or commercials - Travelocity has made a few funny videos about their mascot, the roaming gnome, and you can find them on their myspace page. They have also submitted a few videos on youtube, attracting thousands of visitors.

5/ Free travel eguide - eguide.com has developed free online guides for various cities in Australia and there’s no reason why other niche markets can’t do the same for the market areas. Producing free resourceful material is always useful for visitors to your site.