Da Nang's First Google Local Guides Meetup a Success!

Hello fellow Local Guides!

I’m excited to share that on Wednesday, February 22, 2024, we held the very first Google Local Guides meetup right here in Da Nang, Vietnam.

I (RayRayRay Tan, Level 9 Local Guide) had the pleasure of hosting the event, and we had a fantastic turnout:

We were extremely grateful to Christoph and Esco Beach for sponsoring food and drinks, and we absolutely enjoyed kicking off the first Local Guides meetup in central Vietnam.

During the meetup, we discussed the various levels of Google Local Guides and approximately how many reviews it takes to reach levels 9 and 10. We even referenced this publication from 2021: https://streetfightmag.com/2021/12/27/the-influence-of-local-guides-on-google-reviews-part-2/

Overall, it was a fantastic meeting, and we’re planning to host the next installment of the Google Local Guides meetup Da Nang around the middle of March 2024. Stay tuned for our next event announcement, soon!

Event schedule and RSVP: https://lu.ma/googlelocal

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Hello @tinhead

Wow !!! A big congratulations from me to you all for a successful first local guides meet up in your region.

I remember my first meet-up as well. It was a virtual meet-up (Online) there was a hitch but one of my local guides buddy made it up for me.

Happy guiding

Cheers

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Such kind of words of support, thank you thank you. :pray:t4:

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Super Congrats for your first meetup @tinhead !

It looks like you had a great time and the venue looks pretty cool. A regular practive in meetups is to create a Google Photos album where you and all the participanes upload the photos that were shot in the meetup, and include a link to that album in your recap. We all love to see more pictures of the event, so it´d be good idea to do so in your next meeup.

Also you can register your next meetup in the Meetup board (you can use this link). That way it will be included in the calendar section of the Meetups board and you´ll get a special badge in your Connect profile, when you register you fifth meetup you’ll get an additional badge also.

If you have additinal questions just let me a message here. Don’t forget to include always @ and the user name of the person who you are talking to.

Hi @tinhead This is great I hope you arrange many more meetings​:smiling_face: :+1:t2:

You guys are great. Thank you. Cam on. !

@tinhead Thank you so much for giving us the opportunities to see this.

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Thank you for your kindness and support! We’ve just scheduled the next event, March 13 in Da Nang city. Hope to make this a monthly endeavor in central Vietnam and will also look at starting events in the north and the south of :vietnam: Vietnam.

I want to shed some light on the topics of the discussion. Please don’t emphasis on reviews or photos only when it comes to increasing your level. I just ran a quick check on your city on maps and found that many businesses including restaurants don’t have their English name on maps. Adding them will be very helpful for foreign tourists who use maps to navigate and thus it may have a positive impact on your local tourism industry.

Be creative! The sky is the limit! Best of luck for your upcoming meetup next month. :sparkles:

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