Category Archives: Tourism Marketing

Tips to Inspire Potential Customers!

The visual appearance of your website and marketing collateral play a vital role in creating positive first impressions, enticing your target audience, and converting them to bookings. Your branding, design elements, and brand story all work together to showcase what your business offers.  

In this article, we'll explore five tips recommended by our lead designer, Pallavi Karambelkar that will help support your visual branding, designs and storytelling. We also share a recording of our Tourism Tech Talks webinar hosted by Pallavi that covers these strategies along with additional questions from tourism businesses.

1. Something New: Horizontal Scrolling

Horizontal scrolling on a website is an emerging design feature that presents...

5 Google Strategies to Drive Website Traffic & Bookings

Google and it's suite of tools for businesses provides vital ways to ensure your website presence can be found easily by the right audiences that you want to attract. With ever-evolving technologies it's important to keep up with changes as well as maintaining the basics.

In this article, we'll explore five key strategies using Google tools recommended by our subject expert, Tip Varnakomala. Tip has hand picked some strategies designed to help you to navigate the suite of tools to understand how they help drive traffic to your website. 

We also share a recording of our Tourism Tech Talks webinar hosted by Tip that covers these strategies along with additional questions from tourism businesses.

1. Something New:...

1. Refresh your Social Media Content & Calendar

Your social media platforms are a vital way engage with potential customers and broaden your reach to new audiences. The start of spring can mean a change in the tone and messaging of your social media posts. If your tourism business is in a location that benefits from higher visitor volumes through spring and summer then you'll want to become more active with regular social media posts to share your content.

• Activate seasonal social media ad campaigns to expand your reach and engagement with potential customers
• Develop a monthly social media content calendar of organic posts with a variety of "content buckets"
• Refresh the style and design of yor posts, make sure they are on point with your brand and visual...

5 Strategies to Build Brand Awareness & Engagement

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, social media has emerged as a powerful tool for tourism businesses to reach, engage, and convert their target audience. To stay ahead in this competitive industry, it's essential to adopt innovative and effective strategies.

In this article, we'll explore five key social media marketing strategies recommended by our subject expert, Jaimee Beck, to boost your tourism business and create lasting impressions on your audience.

We also share a recording of our Tourism Tech Talks webinar hosted by Jaimee that covers these strategies along with additional questions from tourism businesses.

1. Something New: Use AI for Content Creation

In a world driven by technology, embracing...

As a leading provider of tourism marketing services with clients concentrated in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, our Tomahawk team is celebrating an outstanding milestone in 2023. Having been operating since 2008, our agency has now delivered 15 years of excellence in tourism!

Despite the challenges the tourism industry has faced in recent years, our resilience has remained steadfast, adapting strategies, and providing unwavering support to clients during these challenging times. Our commitment to innovation, resilience, and deep industry knowledge has allowed us to navigate the turbulent times and emerge stronger than ever. 

With our longevity in the market, paired with a team of seasoned tourism leaders boasting over 150 years of collective experience,  our...

Tourism New Zealand ended it's domestic marketing programme in New Zealand from July 2023. Tourism businesses had a great run benefiting from plentiful marketing budgets being pivoted towards domestic campaigns while borders were closed from 2020. Their campaigns like "Do Something New New Zealand" served to inspire kiwis to explore their own country and will no doubt continue to leave a lasting impression for some time to come.

The mandate to promote our regions and tourist spots is now squarely returned to the RTO's. If you're business is reliant on domestic visitors then the ball is also in your court to consider how to attract their bookings as a staple part of your year-round revenue.

Here are some tips from our team that will help you maintain a strong presence and...