AI-Generated Leads for Travel Businesses Grew 82% in June For any travel business, a phone call may be the best new customer lead. For travel agencies, hotels, airlines, and tour companies, a call represents direct voice connection to an eager travel shopper. Unexpectedly, AI search chatbots such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini are producing…
How to Get Travelers Calling You Again As with most small travel companies (i.e., travel agencies), you’re likely seeing a drop in calls and leads. It’s a worrying trend haunting even the major OTAs. The data shows the attrition but what to do about it is the big challenge. And while invisibility to travel audiences…
Make the Travel AI Threat a Benefit There’s a lot of fear about AI these days. It’s disrupting the travel sector at a faster pace and most small travel companies likely don’t have a plan to deal with it. The rising competition is a data center full of high speed, advanced servers collecting data on…
Finding the Right Travel Agency for You in Toronto (GTA region) Your Traveler Guide to Find the Right Travel Expert for Your Kind of Trip The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is one of Canada’s most diverse consumer or corporate travel markets. With millions of residents who love to travel, with their deep cultural ties around…
TMR’s Travel Market Reports 2025 A couple of travel market research reports by TMR show geopolitical tensions, overtourism, AI, and economic uncertainty are hampering the travel market. And travel company owners have to decide on how to respond to reduced bookings. Change and challenges like this generate opportunities, or gaps in the marketplace, which in…
How You Can Beat AI Travel Agencies With OTA’s and new AI travel agencies impinging on your audience and customer base, you’re understandably concerned. Young travelers are open to AI-driven travel planning and services. Agency owners on the other hand appear to be resisting anything that carries that artificial intelligence tone to it. However, as…
How to Attract Travel Better Advisors Being more proactive about recruiting quality, experienced, and successful travel agents might be the one of the productive efforts you make to succeed. Like all online companies, you need marketing techniques that attract competent, new and seasoned travel advisors. And the better ones of course, are business-builders, not order…
Travel Business Conferences USA Canada For travel agents, travel startup entrepreneurs, tour operators, and destination marketing companies, travel conferences and expos represent a wonderful opportunity to connect, learn and celebrate being in the travel industry. Who doesn’t love traveling to a conference/trade show to get immersed in the industry they love? And with the 2025…