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7 Marketing Ideas For Hospitality Brands During A Travel Lull

Pixlee

Travel and hospitality brands have faced one of the biggest challenges yet: 2020. After years of growth, fueled by influencers and social media, the travel industry has taken a significant hit. Domestic travel, and road trips, are appearing to make a small comeback as border restrictions remain uncertain.

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A First-Class Guide to Social Media for Travel

Sprout Social

From inspiration to reminiscing, travelers turn to social media throughout every step of their journey. Social media has a huge influence on travel-related purchases. In fact, of those who use social media to research travel, only 48% followed through with their original plans. Travel Social Media Basics: Do Your Research.

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How Online Travel Agencies can be More Like Amazon

Pixlee

Online travel agencies (OTA’s) were extremely innovative in their genesis, but now, their user experience is starting to fall short. As more companies move towards the ecommerce and marketplace model, expectations for best-in-class user experience have also grown. . Connected Customer Experience for Mobile.

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Facebook Updates: Dynamic Ads and Website Custom Audience Enhancements

Jon Loomer

First, a minor label adjustment… On February 17, 2015, Facebook announced the launch of Dynamic Product Ads , a way for advertisers to show ads dynamically to Facebook users based on products they previously visited on that advertiser’s website or mobile app. Dynamic Ads for Travel.

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Millennials And The Need To Stay Connected

Firebelly

InsightExpress conducted a survey of how millennials use social networking and mobile devices to stay connected. 70% of millennials said mobile applications are important to their daily lives. Instagram, Twitter, and SnapChat are big mobile applications used among my friends. Here are some interesting things that were found: 1.

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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

Waxing UnLyrical

We just launched our travel tech start-up, Cruiseable , three weeks ago after a year of work. Our team’s goal is to help bring social, mobile and digital to the cruise world – a huge, sprawling, largely analog $38 billion market. Here are the working assumptions we’re beginning with for our website and mobile app.

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How to Use YouTube Live to Engage Your Audience: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hootsuite

Note: You need more than 1,000 subscribers to live stream on mobile. Mobile cam. How to create a YouTube live stream on mobile. Virgin Galactic taps one of its experts to provide a glimpse at what it’s like to travel to space. YouTube Live Stretch Class with Amit Patel. Open the YouTube app. Tap Go Live.

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