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Ctrip boosts customized marketing capabilities with iClick partnership
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 14, 2018
Ctrip is enhancing its digital marketing services through a partnership with iClick Interactive, a Hong Kong-based marketing technology company.
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Expedia gets super-serious about activities, plots five-fold booking jump
By Kevin May
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June 13, 2018
Much of the attention in 2018 in tours and activities has been on moves at TripAdvisor and Booking Holdings - but Expedia Group has big ambitions of its own.
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Modern travel marketing, part 2: Social media
By Jill Menze
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June 11, 2018
For the second installment on modern travel marketing, we explore the power of social media and how it influences consumer behavior, as well as the tactics travel brands are using to grow their reach...
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Facebook touts benefits of people-based travel marketing
By Jill Menze
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June 7, 2018
With so many content and review site options in the travel space, there’s a likelihood people shopping for and booking travel might not even encounter certain brands’ products. This creates an...
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13 mistakes that sabotage vacation rental bookings
By Kevin High - VroomRes
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June 6, 2018
You work tirelessly to manage your properties. You do all the things that the so‐called “experts” tell you to do, but it just doesn’t seem to be paying off in the ways that you really want.
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Booking.com leads in online traffic with market-customized strategies
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 4, 2018
Booking.com is the most visited travel website in the world according to SimilarWeb, with an average of more than 420 million visit per month in the last six months.
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Modern travel marketing, part 1: SEO strategy
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 4, 2018
Throughout June, we're looking at a variety of topics under the umbrella of digital marketing. We start with an analysis of the current state of search engine optimization, which today could be renamed...
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QOTW: Something about an invasion of privacy
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June 1, 2018
Quote from Clayton Reid, CEO of MMGY Global, in an article on PhocusWire this week.
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How Airbnb grows its host community through online marketing
By Tao Cui, Ye Wang and Bassel Namih - Airbnb
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June 1, 2018
Which ads to buy? How much to pay for each ad? How to measure the performance of each ad? Airbnb built a marketing system to answer these questions.
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Coming soon to your hotel: The integrated revenue generation team
By Max Starkov, HEBS Digital & Scott Dahl, Ecole Hôtelière de Lausann
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May 31, 2018
The hospitality industry is enjoying its longest expansion and healthiest growth in decades, yet there are some troubling trends beginning to surface that threaten profitability and overall performance.
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Travel, data security and false narratives around Facebook
By Clayton Reid - MMGY Global
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May 29, 2018
The disclosure of Facebook data breaches during the U.S. presidential election has created a shudder across the marketing landscape.
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How organic search is becoming ineffective for hotels on Google
By Kevin May
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May 23, 2018
Most conversations that involve digital marketing and the efforts of hotels and online travel agencies to gain exposure usually revolve around advertising.
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Tech-driven boutique brand Life House launches with $40M and plans to bypass OTAs
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 22, 2018
A new hotel brand has secured $40 million in funding to develop its boutique hotel product and proprietary technology platform.
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In the Big Chair - Cree Lawson of Arrivalist
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 16, 2018
Arrivalist measures the movement of network-enabled mobile devices to determine what digital content influences consumers to visit a physical location.
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ADARA launches new personalization framework for travel brands
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 16, 2018
Enterprise travel data solution provider ADARA has created a new framework to hep brands deliver personalized experiences to their customers.
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