travel

7 serious trends shaking up travel and hospitality

In a week where the Marriott-Starwood deal concludes and Amazon Alexa forays into the UK with Skyscanner integrated as its flight search engine, we consider some other big picture trends […]

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Google debuts its mobile travel app, Trips

Today Google launches its first all-in-one travel app, Trips. The free app aims to be a personalized tour guide available for Android or Apple devices. The most powerful trick of […]

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Travel marketing is more frustrating than ever

Digital marketing is a great way to burn lots of cash, now more so than ever. It used to be that SEO and Adwords were the only game in town. […]

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3 ways to win traveller loyalty in the digital age

Flexibility, personalisation and partnerships are just some of the ways to build customer loyalty Loyalty is a big issue in this fickle and competitive world where consumers are spoilt for […]

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5 Useful Tips For Your Email Marketing

I was recently invited to deliver two workshop sessions at NTA’s annual Contact event, which was being held for the very first time in my hometown of Québec City. How […]

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Future of Travel Distribution: Customization Through Tech

The travel industry has continuously addressed the challenges of distribution with innovation, tech and consumer data and with those tools, its methods are becoming more efficient, though consumer behaviors are […]

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How travel can benefit from Facebook developments

Last week I was invited to a private roundtable with Mark Zuckerberg at Rome’s Town Hall event where I learnt a great deal about how Facebook can help businesses in […]

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Improve Conversions and Capture Attention with Mobile Users

The shift to mobile devices for planning and booking is a big opportunity for travel brands, mobile bookings are expected to surpass desktop transactions for the first time ever. If […]

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Hotels must ease booking shift from mobile to desktop

Planning for travel often begins on smartphones and tablets, but hoteliers must streamline the jump from mobile to desktops for final booking to take full advantage of existing consumer behavior. […]

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Travel brands must be creative with programmatic

Programmatic advertising – the ability to target infinite audience segments across the web – means that serving the same, generic advertisements to all your target audiences is no longer an […]

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