travel

Why travel brands should be investing in chat bots, now

It is common in the consumer marketing world to engage with customers where they pass their time, spend their money and focus their attention. This often involves employing a team […]

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How to take a bigger piece of the travel pie

  Travel ecommerce has grown rapidly since the emergence of Expedia back in 1995. With the industry now at the point of saturation, it’s time to get savvy with your […]

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5 effective ways hotels can attract international guests

International travel is now fully-fledged. Anyone can travel anywhere, anytime they like. Between 2011 and 2020, international travellers to the United States are expected to grow from 62.8 million to […]

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What Travel Marketers need to know about Local Search and Mobile

Over the past decade, nothing has impacted travel buying more so than search and consumer access to mobile devices.  Now more than ever before, the customer buying journey has changed […]

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OTAs TripAdvisor, Expedia and Hotels.com Top When Planning Vacations

In a new, first of its kind analysis of combined offline and online consumer conversations, Engagement Labs released its TotalSocial® rankings on the top performing online travel agents (OTAs) in […]

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Placement Optimization on Facebook Dynamic Ads for Travel

When it comes to Facebook advertising, where you place your ad can be as important as what your ad says. Placement optimization can boost performance when using campaign objectives such […]

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How Travel Brands Can Use and Safeguard Customer Data

The Travel Industry Toes the Line Between Using Data to Its Full Potential to Create Customer Experiences and Safeguarding That Data to Preserve Customer Trust. NB: This is an article […]

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In a voice-led world: Okay, Google, how are you changing the travel industry?

The multi-dimensional travel buying journey is gaining yet another route to market as we increasingly turn to voice search when planning, purchasing, preparing and enjoying travel. Considering that 60% of […]

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Importance of Selling Millennials Experiences, Not Just Beds

Today, Millennials are a widely overlooked audience for hotels; whether it’s because there is a general perception that they are entitled and hard-to-please, or because they are assumed to have […]

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Facebook’s ambitions for travel planning and booking

There was a telling interview in Skift with Facebook’s Head of Travel, Christine Warner, that illustrates just how ambitious the company is getting about travel. Interestingly, Warner described Facebook as a […]

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