I have just completed a round road-trip if from Sydney to Melbourne and back to Sydney over the Christmas Holiday period. It made me realise that many travel and tourism operators are still NOT mobile-optimised. I also noticed this in the USA a few months ago. It drives me crazy. Imagine what it is doing to your customers. Google will now penalise your website if it is not mobile-friendly. So this means, if your competitor is mobile-friendly and you are not, your competitor will be presented before you, no matter how fancy your site is on … [Read more...]
FREE Luxury Travel Trends White Paper
It's exciting times for MyTravelResearch.com in the Luxury Travel trends space. We recently announced our partnership with Luxperience to create a new and exciting Insights to Action report into the minds of luxury buyers and consumers. You can find more information here In the meantime, we have just published a free report on Luxury travel for you to download. Free Luxury Travel Trends and Insights White Paper In this report, we define what luxury travel is and we explore who is the luxe consumer. We show you how to connect with them in … [Read more...]
Learn the Benefits of Marketing Persona
As a tourism professional, you’re stretched for time, budgets are tight and you have competing stakeholder needs so marketing persona will be out of your ideas yet. You may not have the time to trawl through hours and hours of research to create and trends to create a best practice and innovative marketing plan. Here is the secret: All successful marketing strategies begin and end with the CUSTOMER. As busy tourism marketing professionals, it is easy to forget. Your customer is absolutely central to your marketing NOT your product or … [Read more...]
Travel Marketers Losing Millions By Ignoring Data
Each year tourism departments in governments, companies, and associations spend millions of taxpayer dollars on market research and insights relating to the travel and tourism industry. Unfortunately, much of this effort is wasted. Why? Well, there are several reasons. First, National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) often do not have the resource to take the market research process one step further and distribute the findings to regional tourism organisations and the local travel industry. Full reports and findings are often lengthy and in … [Read more...]
Top 5 Mobile Marketing Trends in Travel Research
The search landscape is moving fast. In particular, mobile search and mobile usage by travellers - both business and leisure. We have seen great emerging trends this year and it presents a great opportunity for those willing to truly connect with their potential customers on the path to purchase via mobile. Travellers have become very demanding of their content and information as Google tells us there are millions of searches for hotels and travel-related experiences. Not only that, we have seen travellers and consumers in general take to … [Read more...]