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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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Where the OTAs are Going Next: The Evolution of Voice Search for Hotels

At the recent Skift Global Forum 2016, the major OTAs discussed the future of online travel. Most of them are pretty convinced that the current era of automation is coming […]

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How can travel brands avoid own goals with better web user experience

It used to be relatively straightforward to predict annual online spending habits in the travel industry. January and July would form two travel “peaks”, with spending rising as holidaymakers book […]

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Google Local Universal Now Shows Four Ads By Default

Google has increased the number of ads shown by default in its Local Universal listings from two to four. In this post, we take a look at what changes Google has […]

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4 Tips for Improving Your Hotel Visuals in 2017

High quality hotel visuals increase bookings! That should be enough of an incentive for hotel marketers to create and distribute great visuals, but if you’re the type of person who […]

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Surfing Intent Data: Read Audiences’ Minds!!

What if you knew the concerns that were uppermost in your customer’s mind, right now? Or, which of the folks in your Eloqua database are most intensively researching the topic […]

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The Science Behind a High-Performing Hotel Website

Your hotel website should be your most profitable booking channel. If it’s not, then you may be focused on the wrong things. In our final webinar for 2016, we looked […]

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How Facebook Marketing Will Look in 2017

Change always comes thick and fast in this industry but 2016 has felt like a real turning point. All the tech giants are making big things happen as we move […]

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