analytics

How To Measure ROI in Travel & Tourism Digital Marketing

  ROI is one of the biggest marketing mysteries we are facing collectively as an industry today. Our recent Tourism Marketing Plan Blueprint questionnaire confirmed that it is one of the […]

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Tracking Offline Interactions in Google Analytics

  The trouble with web analytics is the possibility of it telling you lots about your website but nothing about your business. A browser is not the same thing as […]

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Booking.com Profits From Bidding on Hotel Names

  Many cash-strapped independent hoteliers have been relatively laid back and allowed Booking.com to bid on their trademarked names and are even handing over their digital marketing and website creation […]

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Analyzing & Controlling Rates & Segments

  NB: This is an article from IDeaS The hospitality business climate is in a constant state of flux and no one is more familiar with the ups, downs and […]

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Understanding OTAs marketing strategies

  OTAs such as Expedia, Booking.com, Kayak and Hotels.com are prolific spenders on Google AdWords, regularly logging in the top fifty search engine marketers by spending an average of $67,250 […]

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Data: The 3 Biggest Challenges for Hotels

  NB: This is an article from ALICE Too little of it…or too much. That’s the data paradox. In certain instances, like trying to understand employee productivity, there’s little data […]

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The Painful Truth About Hotel SEO (Part 2)

  NB: This is an article from Tambourine and is the second and final installment You can read the first installment here Problem 3: SEO Has Become Even More Technical […]

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Keywords: Are They Really Dead? An Experiment

  A quantitative analysis of the claim that topics are more important than keywords. What’s more important: topics or keywords? This has been a major discussion point in SEO recently, […]

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Travel Image SEO to Get More Google Image Search Traffic

Do photos of your hotel or tours generate love-at-first-sight bookings? Image search engine optimization is how you get found by travelers who search for hotels, vacation packages, and adventure tours using Google […]

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The Painful Truth About Hotel Website SEO

  NB: This is an article from Tambourine You are a Director of Sales and Marketing overseeing all day-to-day activities for your property, maybe several properties, from meeting/group sales to […]

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