Category: Travel/Tourism

girl pulling suitcase about to board plane
Blog

Attract More Visitors to Your Destination With Data-Driven Travel Campaigns

By employing powerful, data-driven tourism marketing strategies, chambers of commerce and destination marketing organizations (DMOs) can rev up visitor numbers — and ramp up area revenues. We’ll share a collection of tourism marketing ideas that could help your chamber o...
Graphic of travel gear
Blog

6 Trends in Hotel Marketing That Can Drive More Bookings — and Revenues — in 2024

In the ever-evolving — and highly competitive — world of hotel marketing, staying on top of the latest marketing trends and tactics is often essential to beating out the competition. After all, every time a traveler makes a booking via a channel, platform or method that ...
Red Suitcase
Blog

New 2022 Leisure Travel Trends Study Offers Important Insights Into Traveler Mindsets

With the travel-heavy holiday season nearly upon us — and U.S. inflation rates hovering at near-40-year highs — now is a critical time for tourism- and travel-related businesses to get into the minds of North American travel consumers. And almost as if on cue, the travel...
Blog

8 Ideas to Amplify Your Hospitality Marketing Right Now

Just as in any industry, having an effective marketing strategy that manages to connect with and motivate the target audience is critical to finding and sustaining success in the hospitality industry. But while marketers for most other lines of business seek to sell a more t...
Covid-19 consumer study
Blog

The Delta Variant Ripple Effect… What We Are Seeing

The Delta variant is quickly establishing itself as the dominant COVID-19 strain. The highly transmissible variant of COVID-19 accounts for almost 60% of all U.S. infections, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC is now urging vaccina...
Family running on the beach
Blog

Summer Vacations are Back for 2021

School is out for summer, and vaccines are out, too. So how is summer vacation planning for 2021 going? There are definitely mixed views on whether or not travel is safe, and the CDC guidelines are changing often, too, but there is a pent-up demand to get out of the house an...
Stay Apt image
News

New U.S. Hotel Brand stayAPT Suites Selects The Brandon Agency as Agency of Record

The Brandon Agency, the only certified brand-planning agency in the Carolinas, has been selected as the agency of record for all-new long-term lodging brand stayAPT Suites....
Paper airplanes flying in different directions
Blog

Does Your Travel Brand Have an Owned Media Strategy?

For those running marketing campaigns for travel brands, paid media has long been a go-to advertising resource. And for good reason: It offers a great way to get new users to the website of a destination, property or travel service to build brand awareness and drive bookings...
Yellow suitcase with tickets and travel accessories
Blog

Your Audience is Ready To Travel. Are you Ready for Them?

As more people feel safer having the COVID-19 vaccine, they're looking to get out and travel again. Out, but not too far out. Although travel dreams are building, would-be adventurers remain indecisive about spreading their wings.