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How Much Does Facebook Advertising Cost? Complete Guide to Ads Pricing

We previously shared what $5 per day will buy you on Facebook Ads, but how much does Facebook advertising really cost? That’s a tricky question! And the short answer is, […]

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Winning the Direct Booking: Combat the Effect of Airbnb on Your Hotel

It’s no secret that Airbnb has drastically disrupted the travel industry and has positioned itself as a unique and local online travel agency for travel consumers. Yet, while Airbnb paves […]

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Google Analytics: Gaining Actionable Insights on Content Marketing Conversion Goals

More than ever, marketers need to determine content marketing ROI. Google Analytics (GA) is an ideal place to start. Setting up GA to track goals is an important first step […]

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How TripAdvisor Algorithm Works & How To Rank Higher

Reading guest reviews has become a standard process in the travel shopping journey. 95% of travelers read travel reviews when planning a trip and 76% of travel shoppers believe that […]

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Data Proves Branded Hotel Vanity Sites Are Effective

It’s been an ongoing mission of the major hotel brands to convince hotel management companies and hotel owners to “retire” their vanity websites. In fact, this has been going on […]

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Is your Hotel Website Losing Traffic?

If you have a hotel website the hope is that with each passing year you continue to see an increase in traffic to your site.  Unfortunately, this may not always […]

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Increase Hotel Bookings based on Google’s ‘Traveler’s Road to Decision’

As we begin the new year, hoteliers will probably be thinking of new ways to get eyes on their hotel websites and more potential guests interested in their hotel. However, […]

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TripAdvisor Instant Booking: Testing, Learning and Confusing

Consider the scenario that you are a loyal TripAdvisor user, always scoping out its consumer reviews of hotels before choosing where to stay, and you’ve even booked a hotel on TripAdvisor […]

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Airbnb and third party distribution – and so it begins again?

Airbnb has dipped its toe back in the waters of third-party distribution, almost a year to the day since it axed its original affiliate programme. The global property-sharing giant has signed […]

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Mobile and growth are durable trends in travel content consumption

The UK saw a 44% rise in the amount of time people spent consuming digital travel content to 2.4 billion minutes this year. Figures for the US, UK and Canadian markets […]

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