A short presentation that makes the case for falling in love with the kind of content that creates authenticity, community and extends the power of travel and hotel brands - first delivered at BETA Youth Industry Seminar 7 oct 2015
2. By 2016 marketers are expected to spend more than 50% of
their time creating and distributing content…
Source: Content Marketing Institute 2015
3.
4. what content should we create?
inspirational
motivational
emotional
contextual
informational
5. 80% of consumers read 6 to 12 reviews on average
before making a booking
73% of website visitors rely on user submitted images to
make a decision
42% of all stories shared on Facebook are travel-related.
7. Story-telling is the new marketing
Authentic
Contextual
Personal
UGC
social
peer
Influential
/ trending
Experiential
Seamless
Mobile
(multi-
device)
13. St James Court
(luxury hotel)
Virtual concierge
via fiz
50+ daily shares
www.stjamescourthotel.co.uk
14. Resources:
Skift: The Rise of the Millennial Traveler
Content Marketing handbook and more on StackAdapt
Think Like A Freak – Dubner and Levitt or
Predatory Thinking – Dave Trott
fiz: 5 ways to Take Ownership of User Generated Content
15. - Pico Iyer
We travel, first, to lose
ourselves; and we travel,
next, to find ourselves.
What a wonderful industry to be in…
Travel is such a big subject. It’s hard to know where to begin on a given topic. It’s hard to do it justice.
I am not going to talk to you about the digital revolution. We all get that don’t we? Today’s 40 somethings (ahem) are the last generation to have fully experience BOTH the analogue and digital worlds. Most people you want to engage have no experience of a life pre-Google!
It is the nature of that content that matters, and will be most time-consuming but also influential if they are successful finding it. Real-time, experiential, curated, multi source, authentic, personalised.
79% of marketers plan to increase their spend on content in 2016. Currently they spend over 25% of their budget on it.
Content creation is time-consuming
Millennials are fastest growing travel demographic
Story-telling is the new marketing. Most stories are hyper-local
Create the desire to go
The best stories are real-time and hyper local
It is the nature of that content that matters, and will be most time-consuming but also influential if they are successful finding it. Real-time, experiential, curated, multi source, authentic, personalised.
79% of marketers plan to increase their spend on content in 2016. Currently they spend over 25% of their budget on it.
See Puerto Rico –DMO - 3 million views of their short movies conveying what travelers wrote on tripadvisor
Saco (serviced apartments) – Millennials and the Future of Business Travel (white paper)
18,253 bookings in 2014
It is the nature of that content that matters, and will be most time-consuming but also influential if they are successful finding it. Real-time, experiential, curated, multi source, authentic, personalised.
79% of marketers plan to increase their spend on content in 2016. Currently they spend over 25% of their budget on it.
According to ShareThis, travel related content creates 40% more click backs than other shares