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Digital Marketing Trends for Hotels - What'll Be Big in 2020 : 4Hoteliers - 0 views

  • Digital marketing is absolutely vital for maximising bookings and increasing your revenue,
  • Customer Experience Marketing
  • Hotels are (and, more importantly, have to be) more customer-centric than ever before.
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  • creating an enjoyable experience is absolutely vital – hence the rise in customer experience marketing!
  • This is essentially the idea that customers pay for experiences, not “things”.
  • The key is to promote the reasons people stay in hotels in the first place, and can cover activities like offering unique features in hotel rooms and providing premium facilities.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Virtual Reality
  • User Generated Content
  • 93% of consumers say user generated content (UGC) – content created by past customers – is helpful when making purchasing decisions!
  • modern form of word-of-mouth marketing
  • Influencer Marketing
  • Mobile Booking
  • the on-arrival moment
  • The motivation behind this is similar to the motivation behind UGC – namely that consumers trust the opinions and words of their peers and people they trust (like influencers) more than brands.
  • Savvy consumers of today are far more likely to listen and believe the images and words of their fellow travellers than the well-polished marketing campaigns dreamed up by hotels!
  • hotels collaborating more with macro-influencers (like celebrities)
  • but we’ll also see more going really focused and partnering up with micro-influencers.
  • These are social media users
  • Creative and Human Storytelling
  • Consumers today want to build more of a connection with the brands they buy from, and social media is tapping into this trend by producing more and more features that allow brands to show their “real-ness”.
  • Moment Marketing
  • different moments to interact with travellers during the hotel booking process
  • search stage,
  • he post-booking stage
  • partnering up with industry influencers to promote
  • Booking Retargeting
  • research has shown that the majority of people who visit a hotel website won’t book the first time they land there, but they might book on their second, third, or seventh visit!
  • It’s All About Direct Bookings
  • Travellers are beginning to realise they can get better deals by booking directly with a hotel, and they are able to take back power from the OTAs to create their own, personal travel experiences.
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    This article talks about the different trends in Digital Marketing that hotels will be facing in 2020.
smajo003

Location-Based Marketing: The Ultimate Guide [2023] | GroundTruth - 1 views

  • around 83% of marketers say they can run more successful campaigns when they use location data.
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      This is because they feel like they understand what their customers need and they can deliver that.
  • more than 225 million American consumers, and 94% of all millennials, now own a smartphone. And they’re using them more and more.
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      This is important because location based marketing only works with a smart phone.
  • consumers now spend more time daily on mobile devices (3 hours and 43 minutes) than watching TV (3 hours and 35 minutes).
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      I would say that most people watching TV are still on their smart phones. It's clear that if you can advertise to someone's phone it's more effective than TV in this day.
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  • If you want to grab customers’ eyeballs, you need to market where they’re looking. That’s why using location-based  advertising to target mobile device users is a smart marketing strategy.
  • IP address marketing lets you use that location information to target your marketing.
  • GPS marketing lets you target promotions based on this location information.
  • geofencing marketing involves setting up a virtual location or radius so that you can market to people with in that area. Related to that, proximity marketing lets you target advertising and marketing campaigns to people who are within range of a geofence you have previously setup.
  • Beacon marketing or beacon advertising allows you to use physical devices called beacons within the premises of a business to target marketing to people who are within range of that beacon.
  • Blueprints create geographical boundaries around points of interest and locations.
  • Proximity targeting lets you reach your desired customers in real time in or near locations you have previously geofenced.
  • Weather targeting lets you use prevailing or upcoming weather conditions to target ads and marketing promotions.
  • Geoconquesting is about using location data to win business from your competitors.
  • Audience targeting lets you market to people based on location, online and offline behavior, demographics, interests, and more.
  • Location-Based Marketing Benefits
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      There are 4 major marketing benefits to location based advertising. 1. Location Targeting (target ads to customers within a range of your business or competitor). 2. Data Offerings (marketers can gain deep understanding of customers shopping behaviors). 3. Enhanced Targeting (personalizing ads to the consumer making conversions more likely and improving ROI on ad spends). 4. Cost Per Visit Performance Model (you only pay when the consumer clicks on the ad, visits the store, or hits a certain number of impressions)/
  • 1. Location Targeting
  • 2. Data Offerings
  • 3. Enhanced Targeting
  • 4. Cost Per Visit Performance Model
  • Location-Based Marketing Disadvantages
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      Four disadvantages of Location Based Marketing. 1. Opt-In Requirements (consumers must give permission for apps to access location data). 2. Non-Smartphone Users (although this is becoming increasing irrelevant consumers without smartphones can't be geotargeted). 3. Inappropriate Targeting (It's important to segment your audience properly to get conversions). 4. Ineffective Location Data (the effectiveness of geolocation marketing relies on accurate location data).
  • 1. Opt-In Requirements
  • 2. Non-Smartphone Users
  • 3. Inappropriate Targeting
  • 4. Ineffective Location Data
  • Location-based marketing is an extremely effective tool for getting the word out about your business. It’s had the most success in boosting in-store traffic and increasing brand awareness. It’s also a relatively cost-effective form of advertising compared with other advertising methods.
  • What is Location-Based Marketing?
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      This article covers location-based marketing, explaining that it is when we use location data from a consumers device to display relevant content to them. It also discusses the importance of location0based marketing and why we should be using it, citing that "consumers now spend more time daily on mobile devices than watching TV". We learn that there are many types of location-based marketing but the six key types are IP address marketing, GPS marketing, geofencing marketing, proximity marketing, beacon marketing and blueprints location-based marketing. The article also discusses how to use location-based marketing correctly and the benefits and disadvantages.
  • Opt-In Requirements Place-based advertising only works when users use the location technology on their phones AND give verified apps access to that data. However, many people don’t do this because of privacy concerns. Without their participation, there’s no way to use location targeting with this group of users.
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    Opt-In Requirements When learning about location based marketing, I immediately thought about the opt-in requirements that many shoppers would not agree to. Because our phones are sued for everything, allowing such access can pose concern for privacy threats.
bingkunwu

Impact of AI and robotics in the tourism sector: a critical insight - 1 views

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    Technology has amassed influence in different and dynamic sectors of the economy. Tourism has become the following field that Artificial Intelligence and robotics seem to merge their roles and optimize service and customer experience to evade any current challenges and change the sector. Through a systematic review of AI and robotics as emerging study designs in tourism, radical complementary dimensions to the future of tourism prompt a proactive strategy to make travel arraignments simpler, customized, automated and insightful. As AI allows continuous learning for machines, the introspective field will monetize such knowledge to learn about travellers' behaviours and interests to inclined personal experience. Tourism marketing needs a positive and improved change that will undoubtedly venture into a safe world from the infective Covid-19 pandemic and enhance expertise in applying Robotics and AI. The infrastructure of tourism as a sector with destinations, hotels, and travelling will be endowing the use of AI to prompt it to surpass human performance. Through AI, a wide range of information will be collected, stored and utilized to calibrate the center of satisfaction in the experience shared. Devices such as Virtual Reality, Facial recognition, Chatbots, Google maps, robots, and language translators are set to give the first experience in regulating destinations and facilities and optimizing services within the sector.
blope130

The Next 100 Years: Innovators and Disruptors Shaping the Future of Hospitality | Corne... - 1 views

  • Whereas innovators develop “new products, processes, or business models to create value for customers or employees, “disruptors,” according to Professor Kim, take it a step further by “significantly [changing] how the industry works.”
  • Kim noted that while disruptors often “seem threatening,” most of them actually fail—it’s more important for incumbent companies to play to their strengths than to try and expand into every avenue.
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    The article highlights major points of the next one hundred years for disruptors and innovators in the hospitality industry during a keynote webinar among female leaders at Cornell Nolan School of Business. According to one of the keynote speakers, Professor Kim, there is a difference between innovator and disruptor. Innovators create "new products, processes, or business models to create value for customers or employees," while disruptors "significantly change how the industry works". We are all aware of the major disruptor to the hotel industry which is Airbnb; however, according to the article, there are other disruptors such as CitizenM, a modular hotel company and Sonder, a short-term rental company. However, these disruptors should not be seen as competition because most start-ups actually fail. Hotels should rather make space for the disruptors and focus on enhancing on their companies' strengths. It is recommended that hotels formalize specialized teams that can create new products to build on the hotel's strengths. Personally, I believe that it is possible for smaller hotels to work in partnership with local Airbnbs. To do this, they can offer a specialized program with reputable Airbnb owners to offer their place as a recommendation with the same hotel perks if the hotel is fully booked. In this way, the hotel can take a percentage of profits rather than losing all profits to another hotel. Nonetheless, the implementation of cell phones is a driving force for innovation and disruption in the hospitality industry creating more convenience for guests. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic is still driving innovation such as contactless technology, work from home arrangements, Virtual reality and Metaverse. In conclusion, the panelists commented that future disruptions are unpredictable, and companies must look at both smaller and larger companies for changes.
chicao27

Optimising digital marketing and social media strategy: from push to pull to performance - 1 views

This article demonstrates the effects of a push-and-pull marketing strategy on the grocery industry. The authors focused on recent information technology developments, such as mobile services marke...

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hijessica

How is Augmented Reality Transforming the Hospitality Industry? - 1 views

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    Here is a very informative and interesting blog on how Hospitality Tech can be upscaled with AR.
ahyla001

WiFi Proximity Marketing: Strategies and how they work | Purple - 3 views

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  • QR (Quick Response) codesWiFi (Wireless Fidelity)NFC (Near Field Communication)RFID (Radio-frequency identification)GeofencingBLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons
  • Besides the end-users mobile device, a collection of location-based technologies (LBS) is needed to successfully utilize proximity marketing.
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  • The downside to using the QR code strategy is getting users to make the initial interaction and additional print material may be necessary. 
  • Businesses can utilize their free WiFi offering as a new channel for marketing directly to customers.
  • NFC tag uses don’t stop at the point of sale system, in fact, the knowledge gained from each purchase and interaction further improves the insights businesses have, meaning over time, customer segmentation and messaging become more focussed.
  • The definition of geofencing in proximity marketing is defined as the ability of a company to micro-target people based on the places they go.
  • For example, a sportswear brand may want to target those at a sports event and so will draw their geometric radius around the venue of the event. Patrons that attend with their devices ‘location-enabled sensors’ settings turned on are allowing their GPS to share their location data with their service provider (SP).
  • The convenience store chain attached BLE beacons to trolleys, and baskets to track customer movements when entering, leaving, and moving around its stores. With the movable and planted roof beacons in place, Nisa was able to accurately collect a large pool of geometric insights that fed into one central cloud for further analysis. From these gatherings, Nisa will have been able to understand customer dwell times and see which product aisles were most popular.
  • Geo-loyalty is a method of utilizing proximity marketing methods to boost customer loyalty and drive app usage for higher conversion and engagement rates.
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    This article is about Proximity Marketing and the many different specific ways it may be applied. These applications include: QR Codes, WiFi, NFC, RFID, Geofencing, and BLE Beacons. In all of these cases, it is vital to proximity marketing that there be an end-user mobile device (such as an iPhone or Android) as well as location-based technologies. We are all fairly familiar with QR codes as those have become widely used during the pandemic. What we may not have considered though, is how logging into a WiFi gives a lot of information about you to the business, as well as a future means of communicating with you (assuming you made an account and/or gave them important information such as an email address). Geofencing is also really cool because it allows companies to set up a virtual boundary that collects data from mobile devices that pass through that boundary. This allows a business to truly know what kinds of consumers go in and out of whatever establishment the geofence outlines.
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