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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]