How LLM GPT’s Help us Create Great Content AI LLMs are a major change in how travel consumers experience search and content on the web. ChatGPT and Google Gemini are the two new AI search engines gaining significantly in the search marketplace. Many users love the comprehensiveness of answers to their questions — their pre-trip…
Ready Your Travel Company for the 2026 Boom! The latest travel stats are reflecting an unsettling trend of travelers avoiding the US and consumers spending less. Travel experts feel this will extend into more revenue and booking losses for the years ahead. While the economy has flagged amidst the Trump tariffs, there are many positive…
🛡️ Bulletproof Hotel Marketing While the leisure travel market has returned to surpass pre-pandemic levels and B2B travel continues to recover, there remains significant headwinds for small to mid-sized US hotels. While hotel businesses spend fortunes on physical assets and advertising, it’s wise for CEOs and marketing managers to reconsider the power of digital marketing…
🧭 The Calm Marketing Playbook for Travel Business Owners A 5-Step Guide to Get More Bookings Without Losing Your Mind (or Budget) You’re a busy travel company owner booking flights, trips, tours, and managing your day to day business challenges. It’s not easy to break inertia on those other tasks that you know are really…
🤩 The Essence of Stellar Travel Content Arguably, the biggest weakness of most small travel companies online is shallow, mundane content. Much of it fits “best practices” in style or topics but doesn’t seem to build brand loyalty or captivate an audience enough to make a booking. And in terms of a great content experience…
Blogs are Your Most Affordable and Powerful Marketing Tool Expedia, Booking.com, TourRadar, Hotels.com or Travelocity do spend time to improve engagement and interaction with travel customers. They blog. And that translates to more inquiries, brand awareness, bookings and upsells — not to mention improved customer loyalty. Let’s get right to the point that blogging is…
Why Search Engines Are Essential for Your Travel Business Success Given the promise of the incoming Trump 2.0 government with its pro-business agenda, both personal travel and business travel will see a big boost in 2025. And with travelers using digital tools such as Google to plan their trips, its absolutely necessary to build visibility…
The Rise of User-Generated Content in Travel Marketing Any serious travel company needs to produce authentic content to draw traffic, engage customers, and build its brand. In terms of authenticity, helpfulness, and immersion, it’s a tough task for most travel companies to produce affordably and genuinely. That’s why augmenting your current content strategy with the…
Pay Per Click Campaigns for Travel Businesses Travel businesses rely heavily on pay per click campaigns and paid social boosting to reach targeted travel consumers. It’s hard to beat the placement and reach of online advertising. It’s extremely fast and powerful, yet it’s competitive. The required minimum bids will shock you. Before you spend…
Advanced Content Strategy: Power in the Creative Mix Every travel agency owner, travel management software manager, and tour company CEO has to decide what their blog content theme will be. Because a company blog creates the lion’s share (up to 90%) of web traffic. Which means content choices will decide how much traffic, rankings, impact…
What is the Essence of a Great Travel Article? That is the question to ask or you’ll never create one. And the answer might surprise you because it has to achieve a lot, and can’t just “read nice.” We know travel content is the most lively, inspiring, and personal type of content. So the bar…