5 Fantastic Travel Marketing Insights: Hospitality Marketing Link Digest

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Hey, Big Thinkers! It’s a gorgeous day here in the Garden State. Hope you’re having a fabulous late summer afternoon wherever you are too. As you get ready, why not check out these 5 fantastic travel marketing insights for this week’s Hospitality Marketing Link Digest entry? Enjoy:

1. Leading off, we rounded-up “21 Can’t Miss Travel Marketing Insights: The Top Posts of 2016 (So Far)” for you.
2. Building from those top posts, one of the more popular items over the last few months took a look at “OTA’s vs. Chain Brands: Expedia Comes Out Swinging.”
3. This next post explains why “Personalization Starts With a Person” that you’ll really want to review.
4. You might also want to check out a couple of entries from the Hospitality Marketing Link Digest series, including these “5 Helpful Hospitality Marketing Stories for You” and these “7 Special Hotel Marketing Insights.”
5. And, finally, this “New Sabre Study Outlines Key Mega-Trends Shaping Travel Marketing.” You’ll definitely want to give it a look.

If you’re looking for even more travel marketing goodness, you might also want to take a moment to review the slides from my recent seminar, “Digital Marketing Directions 2016: The Key Trends Driving Your Hotel Marketing Next Year” here:

Finally, you will definitely want to check out some of our past coverage of the mobile, local, social web and how to make it work for your hotel, including:

• Is Social a Waste of Time for Hotel Marketers?
• 5 Fantastic Insights Into 2016 Travel Marketing Trends: Hospitality Marketing Link Digest
• 6 Key Hotel E-commerce Tips: A Cheat Sheet to Drive Direct Business
• 5 Hospitality Marketing Trends You’ll Want to Keep in Mind: Hospitality Marketing Link Digest
• Expedia’s Accelerator Program: A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing
• For Travel Marketers, Content is Still King
• Trends in Hospitality Digital Marketing for 2016
• 8 Great Posts About 2016’s Top Trends: Hospitality Marketing Link Digest
• 5 Key Facts About Mobile, Millennials, and Hotel Marketing
• How Safe Are Independent Hotels from Airbnb?