‘Traditional’ Travel Content and Social Media: Here’s Why They Go Hand in Hand

In the modern world, we’re seeing more and more travel brands using social channels as their primary platforms for branding and marketing. In fact, some have ditched blogging and other common forms of content marketing altogether in favour of the more immediate gratification and precise targeting offered by a social-only approach.

It’s understandable, as social media – and especially Instagram – has been a gift for travel brands, with the visual focus offering a chance to show off available destinations and experiences at their most enticing. However, we believe that social media is a tool that should be used to complement other forms of content marketing… not to replace them. For us, the best form of relationship is a symbiotic one. Here’s our take on why social and content marketing are tailor made for one another, and how you can use the two in tandem to boost your travel brand…

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Hand-in-Hand: Why Travel Content and Social Media Will Work Better Together

In the modern world, we’re seeing more and more travel brands using social channels as their primary platforms for branding and marketing. In fact, some have ditched blogging and other common forms of content marketing altogether in favour of the more immediate gratification and precise targeting offered by a social-only approach.

It’s understandable, as social media – and especially Instagram – has been a gift for travel brands, with the visual focus offering a chance to show off available destinations and experiences at their most enticing. However, we believe that social media is a tool that should be used to complement other forms of content marketing… not to replace them. For us, the best form of relationship is a symbiotic one. Here’s our take on why social and content marketing are tailor made for one another, and how you can use the two in tandem to boost your travel brand…

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Google’s New Digital Garage Highlights Why Pro Travel Content Writing is Vital

Back in March this year, Google premiered an ambitious new project called The Digital Garage. Billed as ‘a growth engine for digital skills’, The Digital Garage is designed to help British and European businesses grow their online presence by offering tutorials on a wide variety of digital marketing skills. They cover everything from web content to social media to search marketing, affording travel companies helpful insight into cementing an online presence.

Start working your way through the tutorials, and you’ll find something else becomes abundantly clear. That, for all these different forms of digital marketing, their success mainly depends on the quality of the written travel content.

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