TRAVEL & TOURISM
Digital Marketing for Travel Companies That Actually Books Trips
OTAs are eating your margins. Generic agencies are burning your budget. You need a system that drives direct bookings — not vanity metrics.
Get The Damage ReportThe Problem With Travel & Tourism Marketing
You already know something's off. Here's what's actually wrong.
OTA Dependency Is Bleeding You Dry
Booking.com and Expedia take 15-25% of every reservation. You're funding their brand while yours stays invisible. Every commission cheque is money that should be building your own direct channel.
Seasonal Feast-or-Famine
Revenue spikes for 4 months, then flatlines. Your agency doesn't adjust — same strategy in January as July. You need a system that builds pipeline year-round, not one that coasts on peak season.
Generic Agency Playbook
Your "travel marketing specialist" is running the same strategy they use for dentists and plumbers. Travel has unique search patterns, booking windows, and conversion paths. Cookie-cutter doesn't cut it.
73%
of travellers start with a Google search
15-25%
average OTA commission per booking
94%
of travel site visitors leave without booking
4-6mo
lead time for seasonal content to rank
How We Actually Fix Travel Marketing
We don't do "travel marketing packages." We apply a proven 5-phase system — the same one that's put 100% of our clients on page 1 — specifically calibrated for how travellers search, compare, and book.
Travel SEO That Targets Booking Intent
Most travel SEO targets informational keywords — "best beaches in Bali" — that attract dreamers, not bookers. We reverse-engineer your keyword strategy from revenue backwards.
We map every keyword to where it sits in the booking funnel: dreaming, planning, comparing, or ready to book. Then we build content for each stage that moves people closer to conversion, not just closer to your blog.
The technical foundation matters too. Travel sites are notoriously bloated — heavy images, slow-loading booking widgets, pagination nightmares from hundreds of destination pages. We fix the architecture so Google can actually crawl and rank your money pages.
For hotels and tour operators specifically, we implement schema markup that gets you rich results: pricing, availability, star ratings, and review snippets directly in search results. This isn't optional — it's the difference between a click and a scroll-past.
Booking Funnel Optimisation
Getting traffic means nothing if your booking flow leaks. The average travel site loses 94% of visitors before they reach the checkout page.
We audit every step: landing page to availability check to booking form to payment. Every friction point, every unnecessary field, every moment of doubt that makes someone open a new tab to check Booking.com instead.
Rate parity pages, direct booking incentives, urgency without sleaze — we build the conversion infrastructure that turns organic traffic into confirmed reservations without handing 20% to an OTA.
Content Strategy for Seasonality
Travel demand is cyclical. Your content strategy should be too — but not how most agencies do it.
We don't wait until March to publish summer content. Search engines need lead time. We build and publish seasonal content 4-6 months ahead of demand, so your pages are indexed, ranking, and capturing early-stage planners before your competitors even start writing.
Destination guides, itinerary content, comparison pages ("Bali vs Thailand for families"), seasonal event coverage — all mapped to search volume patterns and published on a calendar that matches how Google indexes, not how agencies bill.
This means your off-season isn't dead. It's when we're building the content that will dominate the next peak.
Local vs Destination Marketing
Travel marketing has a unique challenge: your customers are searching from one location to visit another. A hotel in Queenstown needs to rank both for "Queenstown hotels" (destination searches) and "New Zealand adventure holidays" (origin searches).
We build parallel strategies. Local SEO with Google Business Profile optimisation captures in-destination searches — people already there looking for tours, restaurants, experiences. National and international SEO captures the planners and bookers who haven't left home yet.
For multi-location operators, we create scalable location page architectures that avoid duplicate content penalties while giving each property its own ranking power. No thin doorway pages — substantive, unique content that Google rewards.
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Online Marketing for Travel Agencies: The Channels That Actually Move Bookings
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Stop Paying OTAs to Rent Your Own Customers
Get a free audit showing exactly where your travel marketing is leaking revenue — and what to fix first.