Travel blogging is the most well-known format which is blowing up these days. Whether you're going to start a new travel blog or you already have one, there are a number of tips, advice, and tricks about travel blogging. Starting a blog can be rewarding and beneficial for the long haul. You will find a lot of travel and tourism blogs online, and every one of them is different in its own way. With some guidance, you will easily learn how to start a unique travel and tourism blog or website.

Always remember, if you're planning to do something, move ahead and do in an effective manner. You will be enjoying the whole process. So listed beneath are some of the basic tips for travel blogging.

1. Join Twitter. Then jump to the travel blogging community. This community will help you a lot. These are advice givers. Therefore, participate properly; give back and in return you'll be rewarded.

2. You need to self-host your travel blog. You need to select the appropriate domain for your blogs like Blogger or BlogSpot. Approach the domain purchasing sites, get an appropriate domain name, visit WordPress.org and start your own blog. You will love the move.

3. Set the default setting of URLs to some descriptive terms. The default setting then generate URLs which have an ending with numbers like /? 7643. These are horrible for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes. The task is simple. What do you need to do? Approach dashboard then goes to administration tab and press permalinks button. Select an appropriate title format which picks the desired words from the title and then try to remove the useless words, like "the,"to,"a" etc.

4. It is a good idea to add a re-tweet button with the help of a plug-in on your website. Twitter is the universal tool at the present moment. And ensure that settings are made appropriately. Because with the help of this setting, your @address automatically comes up when a person hits RT button.

5. Publish post regularly on your blog. As you all know content is the king. So post engaging and useful content so that visitors visit your blog again and again. Always try to give useful and precise content. Publish 3 to 4 times in one week in order to get the following. In case you're having bad internet access, compose some posts and then schedule in such a way that will post automatically. This is easy in self-hosted WordPress website.

6. Add social media buttons. You must have a Facebook page and an appropriate button which link it to your blog or website. You can also use StumbleUpon. Twitter is also a good choice. You will also find other social networking sites like Delicious, Digg, etc. These social media buttons will help you a lot in your travel blogging.

To conclude remember all the above-mentioned points of travel blogging. If you've good and engaging content, you'll notice that everyone has the power to communicate the word. Write easy to read and simple content. Add attractive and beautiful photographs related to travel and tourism. With the current hectic environment maybe it's time to go away on holiday for some peace and relaxation. Hong Kong will still be there but hopefully calm again.

From being a humble Hong Kong phone salesman, Leon Lai-ming became a singing star since the release of his debut album in 1990. Here are some of his biggest hits:

Having left secondary school in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, Leon Lai-ming was at odds with himself and unsure where life was going to take him. He entered the workforce as a lowly mobile-phone salesman to make a living, but friends and family kept insisting to make more of his talent for singing and flair for the theatrical. Based on his talents, his family and friends finally convinced to try out for the 5th New Talent Singing Awards in 1986.

Lai won the second place and that landed him a recording contract. However, it took Lai four years of vocal and performance coaching before Leon Lai-ming, the artist, before he released his first album (1990s Leon).

After that, his stardom started. Even though Lai was a somewhat reluctant and shy star, with time he became one of Canto-pop's Four Heavenly Kings (alongside Andy Lau Tak-wah, Aaron Kwok Fu-shing and Jacky Cheung Hok-yau).

But his career didn't end there. He has also had an impressive and acclaimed career in the Chinese cinema. He is famous for an impassive style that seems to allow his emotions to build up.

To celebrate Lai turning 50, and celebrates 30 years in show business. To honor these milestones, he returns to the big stage in Hong Kong with eight shows at the Central Harborfront Event Space from April 28 to mark his 30 years in show business.

One of the tunes that helped establish Lai among the heavyweights of Canto-pop is "There's not one day I don't think of you." This was released once he had signed on with Polygram. The song reflects on lost love and longing, which would become his signature topics. The Spanish guitar licks have also been copied countless times since. The tune earned the artist the first of his "Song of the Year" awards.

Other famous songs include "A Happy Family." This is a duet and marks the beginning duets in Lai's career. "Just love me for one day" was also voted Song of the Year in Hong Kong by his ever-growing legion of fans. "If I can see you again" was a Canto-pop classic that celebrates the purely commercial nature of the genre.

Lai has increasingly avoided the spotlight after a series of tabloid intrusions into his private life. He went as far as to refuse to accept any awards for the past 15 years or so. Although his input in recent years has been limited, an outstanding tune from the last decade is "Sugar in the Marmalade" which was an experiment with techno. This song became an instant hit and karaoke favorite.

During the annual Chinese New Year sweepstakes, the winner could walk away with millions of dollars, whether in the Toto draw or at the box office, where there are four festive titles in battle.

This season often sees Hong Kong's beloved action figure Jackie Chan shine. His latest attempt to claim the holiday crown was in action-comedy Kung Fu Yong, he and director Stanley Tong pull out all the stops to appeal to just about everyone. The film features exotic and glamorous locations around the world that range from the snowy landscape of Iceland to the luxurious scenery of Dubai.

But the feature is not only varied in terms of setting but also in terms of cast, featuring Bollywood beauties Disha Patani and Amyra Dastur, yoga goddess Mu Qimiya, Aarif Rahman and singer-dancer Lay Zhang from South Korean boy band Exo.

Jackie Chan assumes the role of archeology professor Jack who is fixed on finding the lost treasure of the Indian kingdom of Magadha. The long exposition of an ancient battle evolves like a none-too-involving computer game and the references to Indo-Sino friendship feel too much like appealing to a potentially large Indian audience.

Chan plays the top dog that everyone respects but even he will cower when he finds himself next to the king of beasts. One of the best scenes is when Chan is stuck in a car with a lion. Chan plays comical heights as he tries to placate the animal.

Although it is not part of the Chinese tradition, a joyous Bollywood dance extravaganza wraps up the proceedings.

Despite Chan's film being cheerful enough, the most festive entry is The Fortune Handbook. Mark Lee plays a fortune god-in-training who meddles int he affairs of lazy Soh Hock (Christopher Lee) and his brother in law Hao Xing.

This holiday season the main themes are prosperity, the importance of family and bak kwa. All of these themes are present in the work from director Kelvin Sng (Taxi! Taxi!).

Bak Kwa gets quite a bit of play as Christopher Lee is the ambassador for a certain brand. The most entertainment thing in the movie is Christopher Lee's fresh and different performance as the vain, hairspray-toting Soh Hock.

The final festive offering comes from Hong Kong's Stephen Chow, a veteran like Jackie Chan in box-office successes. The film was preceded by Journey to the West: Conquering the Demos, which was a hit even though Chow did not act in it. Instead, he co-wrote, produced and directed it. Although he has less involvement this time around - only a producing credit - his name is still prominently featured in the trailer due to his power to attract audiences.

Hong Kong singers are making use of social media to reach fans worldwide. This practice became evident in a recent live show in Hong Kong where Canto-pop singers Jason Chan Pak-yu (photo) and Phil Lan Yik-hong performing in front of about 4,000 people at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Wan Chai.

Although they were already reaching a considerable audience live, Chan and Lam were thinking bigger and broadcasted their show on social media. Therefore, fans from outside Hong Kong were able to watch their idols live. Thanks to technology, Chan and Lam's music reached fans from Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Thailand live that night via a streaming collaboration between Taiwanese music platform KKBOX and social media platform Twitter, broadcasting via tis Periscope app.

"Live streaming can reach a much larger audience compared to traditional television," Chan, 32, says following the show. "Our fans spend much more time on the internet than watching television at home. With live streaming they can watch the show live or a playback of the clip any time they want."

Lam agrees with this view. "It certainly opens the creative mindset of ‘anytime, anywhere'," says the 31-year-old. "Sometimes we might not get the opportunities to perform on the biggest stages. Internet streaming eliminates all those problems and I think audiences would also appreciate the rawness it brings."

Live streaming via social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube or Twitter's Periscope is taking the world by storm and programmed to substitute traditional television to become the main stream for live content on the 21st century.

These feeds allow more interactivity between fans and artists, and fans among themselves. As celebrities reach their fans directly, they are able to circumvent traditional media and avoid getting their messages distorted or take out of context.

This new type of broadcast doesn't only benefit artists but it also welcomed by fans who are happy to see the "genuine" faces of their idols much more than a dolled-up image that has been carefully put together by their managers.

Take Leon Lai Ming, for instance, a fading Canto-pop "heavenly king" from the 1990s who switched his focus to films. But since Lai signed up for Facebook earlier this year, things have taken a turn. Lai often broadcasts funny videos and messages to his 313,000 followers. He even posted a video apologizing for the last-minute cancellation of the first night of his solo concert series at Hong Kong's Central Harborfront. The public and the rest of his fans praised his move and even took part in picnics outside the concert venue to show support.

"Lai strips off all the unnecessary idol packaging in this raw footage," wrote marketing guru and critic Tsui Yuen. "It meets fans' needs to see the ‘genuine' faces of their idols. You don't need a publicist or a manager. You can face your fans and the public on your own. You just say what's on your mind and communicate directly with the public, through social media."

Now content providers are adding to this momentum. Taiwan-based KKBOX has partnered with Twitter to offer live music content worldwide. Catherine Chien, marketing vice-president of KKBOX, stated that the music platform already has over 25 million tracks backed by more than 2,500 artists. "We will co-create content on Twitter for Chinese pop fans and artists to share their music with the world through live communications platform," she says.