Towards the end of 2012, Google began rolling out its one-stop accommodation planning tool Hotel Finder into standard search results worldwide. Two years on, let’s take a closer look at how the service has evolved and its impact on the online travel sector so...
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3 Travel Marketing Trends For 2014
With the online travel landscape only becoming more and more competitive, and an array of new marketing tactics appearing almost every week, how do you decide where to focus your efforts to get noticed by your guests in 2014? Here are 3 of the biggest trends we expect...
Telltale Signs Your Resort’s Website is Sabotaging Your Bookings Rates
Your website is your vehicle to showcase your property. It’s likely to form your guests’ first impression of your business and has the power to drive more bookings than any other component of your online campaign. But if you’re not giving your site...
The Hotel Photos Your Guests Most Want To See
When your guests are scouring the web for the perfect property for their next holiday, great hotel photography catches their eye and gets them daydreaming about their break. But what visuals are most likely to get travel shoppers pulling out their credit cards ready...
Top Travel Marketing Trends For 2014
Want to know what the online travel marketing industry has in store for 2014? Here are three key trends we think you should look out for… Mobile Travel At the end of last year, Google Travel estimated that around a quarter of all search engine queries related...
The Right Way to Apologise on TripAdvisor
Thanks to TripAdvisor’s Travel Affiliate Program, content from the world’s number one travel site now gets in front of more than 300 million people worldwide, making guest reviews of your resort more readily available than ever. This easy access to a...
How to Make Hummingbird Work for Your Resort
Last month, Google created waves in the marketing world with “Hummingbird,” its most significant algorithm change for over a decade. With the new algorithm, Google has shifted the focus away from a search system based almost entirely on keyword matching to...
How is Google Using Your Resort’s Data?
One of the most significant changes of Google’s recent Hummingbird update is that data scraped from websites is now being displayed on the results page alongside traditional search results content. Now, each time a user makes a search enquiry, Google will...
Crackdown on Fake Online Reviews
Fake online hotel reviews have been around as long as the web itself, fuelled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to drive bookings, or perhaps simply trying to stay afloat in the fiercely competitive digital world. But a recent crackdown by US authorities could give...