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A Direct Booking Content Strategy During Covid-19
The marketing efforts you put in place now will keep you from having to slash rates to get ahead when travelers inevitably hit the road again. Your first focus: direct booking channels
Local Search Updates and Changes to Help Communication in Crisis
COVID-19 posts cannot include images or videos, but will stay on the listing for 14 days, and is currently being displayed higher up on the knowledge panel result in mobile search
Critical KPI’s Hotels Should Monitor During This Crisis
Once the pandemic passes, there will inevitably be an uplift in the market, but re-entering the ads marketplace will be costly to hotels that haven’t got ahead of it
Top 5 Things You Need to Know Now in Hotel Digital Marketing
If any marketing remains live at this time, the focus should be on brand awareness, with tasteful messaging that drives traffic to valuable content
2nd Update Corona Impact on Website vs OTA Bookings
Early March we wrote about the first impacts of COVID-19 on OTA vs Website bookings. What an unpredicted turn things have taken since then. We expected things to be bad, but this bad?
Google Travel Search Is Unrecognizable as Advertising Dries Up
With travel ads largely missing from Google Search, the silver lining is that organic links from the likes of Tripadvisor, Booking.com, and Expedia are newly visible right below the “fold” on desktop
How To Monitor Your Marketing Paid Performance During A Crisis
Whether the crisis at-hand is local or global, you can guarantee that the situation–and its impact on your hotel–will be evolving by the second. NB: This is an article from […]
Google Updates: SEO, Local, User Experience Changes Feb & March
Let’s take you through some updates Google have made over the last couple of months and how they are moving to make search even more convenient by improving the online user experience
The Covid-19 Effect: Hotel Search Impact on U.S. Metro Areas
We believe some US metros may be approaching a “floor” in terms of demand based on declines in hotel search traffic beginning to flatten after the CDC and US govt advised size limitations
Terrible Times for Hotels – What Might our ‘New Normal’ Look Like?
If this crisis has taught us in hotels anything, it is to think the unthinkable. Only a few short weeks a drop in RevPar might have been our biggest concern