Category Archives: Digital Marketing

When most people think of summer holidays, they imagine sun-drenched countries like Hawaii, Spain, or Greece. But with rising global temperatures, these destinations are becoming less appealing to travellers looking for a comfortable getaway. Enter the coolcation—a growing travel trend that favours cooler, temperate destinations over traditional summer hotspots….and less crowds.

What is a Coolcation?

A coolcation is a holiday in a destination with a cooler climate, offering respite from extreme summer heat. Coined by Condé Nast Traveler in late 2023, the term has quickly gained traction. In fact, a survey by Virtuoso, a network of luxury travel advisors, found that 82% of their clients expressed interest in coolcations for 2024, with bookings to Scandinavian countries...

Instagram is widely used by tourism businesses to feature visual content (both images and short-form video) as a key social media marketing platform. It's also an effective channel for paid ad strategies to target your specified audiences. 

Given the focus on visual media for this platform it is important to know the best image & video sizes and orientations for your posts to stand out, particularly on mobile format, and avoid images displaying cropped in either your feed or profile page.

Bookmark this page to refer back to or click on the image below to save it on your desktop. Keep reading for full details on all the different image options and sizes in more detail! 

We've updated the recommended sizes below for 2025!

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We are thrilled to announce our selection as a 2024 Culture New Zealand Award winner, a prestigious accolade that highlights companies with an unwavering commitment to creating an exceptional workplace environment. This recognition showcases our team's dedication to fostering collaboration, nurturing creativity, and prioritising people at every level. 

Organised by Hyer, the Culture New Zealand Awards set an incredibly high standard, evaluating over 5,000 companies and interviewing more than 20,000 employees to identify the top 100 organisations exemplifying workplace excellence and values-driven leadership. 

The benefits of this recognition extend far beyond our Tomahawk internal team. A motivated and cohesive team ensures that the tourism businesses we partner with receive...

For most businesses, Google’s search engine provides the highest volumes of organic web traffic. As a result, it’s key to ensure your website impresses Google in order to get your website found by potential customers.

The process of making your website appeal to search engines (predominantly Google) is known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Optimising your website to increase its visibility on Google involves many incremental adjustments and is an on-going process; a website won’t receive great results by virtue of existing in a competitive environment.

This guide provides an overview of the fundamental processes involved in improving your website’s SEO with a focus on ways you can make improvements yourself to deliver results for your business. If you need more...

Back in 2021, Google introduced this powerful tool that’s redefining how businesses manage their ad campaigns. Performance Max (PMax) gradually introduced better reporting features, including insights into asset performance and audience segmentation, offering more transparency to advertisers. 

In 2022, the platform integrated new audience signals, allowing advertisers to provide their own data to improve targeting accuracy. Most recently, Google has focused on enhancing automation, refining machine learning algorithms for better budget optimisation and expanding the platform’s capabilities to include local and travel-specific ad formats. 

In this article, we’ll break down the essentials of Performance Max and dive into the ways it’s revolutionising marketing strategies in the...

Tomahawk is excited to announce that our founders and company directors are relocating to California. The move comes at a pivotal time, aligning with personal family considerations while also offering exciting new opportunities for Tomahawk to further connect with key markets and ensuring they are better positioned to support customers and capitalise on growth. 

"We're thrilled to be taking this big step change," says Gina Paladini. "Relocating to the US allows us to be closer to some of our biggest tourism markets, and it's an exciting chapter both for us and for Tomahawk as we continue to explore expanding our global customer base." 

Paladini and Hayson believe the timing of the move couldn't be better, particularly with the strong leadership of General Manager Renee...