The travel industry is constantly evolving to keep up with the latest trends and desires of travelers worldwide. More and more, travelers are looking to personalize their holidays and to fully immerse themselves in the fabric of the destination they choose; ultimately, they are looking for unique experiences that also make them feel at home. The rise of the sharing...
Traditionally, digital marketing teams have focused on gross revenue and return for reporting and optimization purposes. For hoteliers, gross revenue is the revenue directly attributed to a booking at the moment the booking occurs. For example, if a traveler decides to book a $100 hotel room today for an upcoming vacation, that $100 will be recorded and attributed to today’s...
With the holiday season in full swing, we decided to take a look at our proprietary data, cross reference it with some third party data, and identify what useful trends we are seeing and how they will impact travel marketers this season. While the Friday before the 4th of July is the busiest single travel day of the year--with more...
With over 4,300 hotels in 100 different countries, AccorHotels recognizes the importance of customizing its travel marketing strategies based on microtrends within different geographies. However, this kind of approach to travel marketing requires technology that can analyze and act upon huge amounts of data. Additionally, that same technology needs to be able to automate thousands of processes to utilize the...
When natural disasters strike, they can leave massive devastation in their wake. In 2018, there have been 11 natural disasters that have totaled over $1 billion each in damages. The wildfires in California are the most recent event to capture attention across the country and pose a threat not only to lives and property, but also to the livelihood of...
When we started Koddi, there was still a lot of mystery in the world of metasearch. There were probably less than 50 true experts in the entire world. Few people had real insight into how these campaigns worked across the market. When telling the story of our business, we’ll often share how, in our early days, we had to beg...