Search engine optimization is a critical strategy in ensuring visitors find your organization’s site and have a user-friendly experience once they get there. Entity search takes this a step further beyond keyword optimization to focus more on the context around search terms.
Increased budgets, the expansion of leisure travel, more digital resources — these are some of the trends that hospitality’s digital leaders are seeing as we near the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Hoteliers have overwhelmingly been part of the late majority to take advantage of technology and use it to provide better service both onsite and pre-arrival. Yet that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities to incorporate these trends into marketing strategies for the future.
Creators provide an outstanding outlet for reaching new markets and audiences, allowing your message to be seen by guests interested in travel and your destination, and driving measurable demand from new customers.
At HSMAI’s 2021 Marketing Strategy Conference, Jessica Davidson, CHDM, SVP, digital and brand marketing at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts gave a presentation on “In the Driver’s Seat: Road Tripping & the Mobile Experience.”
At HSMAI’s 2021 Marketing Strategy Conference, Monty White, CHDM, director of marketing at Visit Irving gave a presentation on “Recovery Campaigns.”
While consumers remain cautious, the industry is in a better place than it was a year ago, and hotel marketers have much to look forward to as vaccination rates climb and travelers emerge from lockdown.
People don’t just want to travel, they are traveling. That was the overwhelming consensus among participants at HSMAI’s Chief Digital Officer Executive Roundtable.
Everything a digital marketer does should be for a reason — including using influencers, whose role has been complicated by the pandemic. Before you engage with an influencer, be clear in your goals for the partnership.
With the pandemic only underscoring the importance of an attractive, engaging hotel website, it’s a good time to remind yourself of some of the basics — such as good content.