The travel bug is buzzing again, and 2024 promises to be a year of exciting growth for the tourism industry. With a landscape reshaped by the pandemic and evolving traveller preferences, it's crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the curve. The increasing use of AI-powered tools is driving more personalised content creation, effective data tracking, and better understanding of your customer journey. Embracing digital technologies will be integral to businesses of all sizes to take advantage of the continuing growth of tourism.
Let’s explore 10 trending strategies we’ve identified that could shape marketing in 2024!
1. You will use more AI
During 2023 we saw the rise of AI in our daily lives as well as in marketing. In 2024 we expect to see the application of AI...
For anyone managing a company LinkedIn page to maximise their B2B and industry relationships, the following list of key takeaways will help guide your content plan, post schedule, and engagement strategies.
All tips provided are based on LinkedIn's 2023 algorithim. Enjoy more LinkedIn success in 2024!
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!
Instagram Profile
All profile pictures on Instagram are automatically cropped to display at 110 x 110...
Digital marketing is an ever-evolving part of promoting your tourism business. With new tools and technologies being developed constantly it's vital to keep on top of the latest strategies available to you. That's why we continue to provide a wealth of content in the form of eBooks, articles, and webinars to assist with your learning journey!
Our Tourism Tech Talks series in 2023 delivered 5 digital marketing webinars with 5 strategies shared by subject experts in each. These 25 strategies are summarised below covering: Something New, Something Reliable, Something Underrated, Something DIY, and Something Trending. The five key digital marketing topics are:
In recent years, a fascinating new trend has emerged in the tourism industry – sleep tourism. Far from simply being a buzzword, sleep tourism caters to travellers who prioritise rest and relaxation, seeking experiences that promote deep, restorative sleep. This shift reflects a growing global awareness of sleep's role in overall health and wellness, prompting travellers to seek destinations that offer unique opportunities for rest and rejuvenation. For tourism businesses, this trend opens up a host of opportunities to attract a new market of wellness-minded travellers.
More Than a Bed for the Night
Sleep tourism is a branch of wellness tourism, appealing to those looking to reset, recharge, and combat the stresses of modern life. Unlike conventional travel, sleep tourism...
The major shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has been progressively phased in by users since it's launch in October 2020. However since July 2023 it has become the only option offered by Google with the sunsetting of UA.
In this article, we'll delve into some the features offered by GA4 which were presented by Renee Goodsell in our webinar "Translating GA4 for Tourism". We also share a recording of our Tourism Tech Talks webinar that covers these strategies in more detail along with additional questions from tourism businesses.
1. Something New: Calculated Metrics
Now you can create your own custom calculated metrics!
A Calculated Metric allows you to create a formula using data that Google automatically...
Now you can create your own custom calculated metrics!