If you are marketing your tourism business or destination on Facebook, you may have seen a drop in your organic reach in the past few months. And now, it is official. Facebook is acknowledging this is a deliberate move as part of its revenue generating strategy by making businesses pay more for fans, exposure to fans and the opportunity to engage with fans. … [Read more...]
How Travel Market Research Can Increase Revenue And Visitation
Incorporating market research in your marketing planning is absolutely crucial to success for both destinations and businesses. A travel market research provides a platform to move forward in your decision making allowing you to be armed with the knowledge of variants that will play a vital part in your future. … [Read more...]
Are You Mentally Available For Your Customers?
Last year a little corner shop business called the Lash Lounge opened up near my home in Sydney's Inner West. After my partner’s inevitable jokes about the name, we confirmed that it is in the business of eyelashes and eyebrows beautiful. … [Read more...]
Innovation vs. Regulation. Which Will Help The Travel Industry Succeed?
On the Australia Day public holiday, I was struggling to find somewhere where I could get 2 takeaway coffees within walking distance of my inner Sydney home. After two of my regulars, plus one other were all unsuccessful (shut) I gave in and drove into the nearest suburb (and thank you to The Counter in Petersham who not only does fabulous coffee but was open) – where the queue for coffee was huge. … [Read more...]
Digital Marketing For Those Who Don’t Do Digital Marketing
At MyTravelResearch.com we do a lot of stakeholder research – and a lot of industry workshops. One of the things we hear a lot from small tourism businesses is that they hate spending time on marketing (especially digital marketing) when they could be doing ‘real’ work and that customers prefer face-to-face contact rather than digital connection anyway. … [Read more...]
Why You Need To Target The Senior Traveller
The seniors market is the most ignored and underestimated segment of the travelling market. We are unlikely to see another generation of travellers so cashed up and time-rich in our time. We have created an infographic to help you get started with targeting the senior traveller. … [Read more...]
How To Create A Content Strategy For Semantic Search (Part 3)
In part 3 of our articles on Google Semantic Search for the travel and tourism industry, we take you through the practical steps to help create your content marketing plan and be well on the way to being presented in a user search for travel inspiration during the dreaming, planning and booking stages of travel planning. … [Read more...]
Semantic Search For The Tourism Industry – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Google semantic search for the travel and tourism industry. This could be a vital part of your content marketing in the travel industry strategy and we will go through some of the practicalities of implementing a strategy to make the most of semantic search and the knowledge graph as introduced in Part 1 . By doing all or at least some of these things, you will be well on your way to being connected to your potential customers when they are searching the web. The series of articles have been set into 3 parts. … [Read more...]
Google Semantic Search for The Travel and Tourism Industry (Part 1)
The way we all work with Google both as a business and a user changed forever toward the end of 2013 with the introduction of Google Semantic Search. It is not an algorithm update, but an entire overhaul. It is important that we understand the significance of the change and the impact of this semantic search for tourism and the way we have known it up until now. … [Read more...]
Market Research For Tourism
We have posted a short video about why you should consider tourism market research for your business, destination, or association. This is great if you are trying to convince your stakeholders or business partners. Do you want to hear more from us? Want to be kept up to date with the latest travel and tourism insights? Join Our Mailing List. Every 2 weeks, we send the latest practical insight for you to apply to your business and destination marketing. … [Read more...]