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Clicks to check-insa guide to hotel marketing
In today's competitive hospitality industry, marketing is not just a nice-to-have, it's a necessity. This guide gives you the practical insights and tactics to make your property the top choice for guests in the area.
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Why you should get our eBook and create your own hotel marketing strategy
This eBook provides practical insights and tactics to help you transform your hotel's marketing approach, ensuring your property becomes the top choice for guests in the area. Not a theory course: a working plan you can put in place with the team and budget you already have.
What is hotel marketing?
Hotel marketing is everything you do to be found, chosen, and remembered: your brand, your website and booking engine, your presence on OTAs and metasearch, the content you publish, and the ads you run.
Done well, it moves guests from a search result to a direct booking, and reduces how much of your revenue you hand over in commission.
The guide covers the full funnel, from first click to repeat stay.
Chapter 01 · The toolkit
Crafting your hotel's brand
Creating a brand identity is the cornerstone of any successful hotel marketing strategy. In a market where travellers' needs are constantly evolving, hoteliers must align their brand with the unique experiences and values they offer.
Identify your target audience
Analyse guest demographics, booking patterns, and feedback, then build detailed guest personas: business travellers, families, couples. That segmentation lets you personalise campaigns and create targeted packages for each group.
Define your USPs
Your unique selling points are the features and experiences that set your property apart: a prime location, wellness and spa treatments, fine dining, family amenities, or co-working spaces. Prioritise the ones your audience actually cares about.
Run a SWOT analysis
List your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in four quadrants. It shows your hotel's position clearly and turns observations into actionable strategy. Update it regularly to stay agile.
Build your compset
A compset is the three to five hotels competing directly with you. Score them on location, demographics, amenities, pricing, guest experience, and reputation to sharpen your own marketing, sales, and pricing.
Let the numbers speak
Hotel marketing strategy is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a necessity.
of travellers say their booking decisions are influenced by reviews.
of travellers were inspired to book based on friends' photos on social.
of hotel bookings are made after clicking on a paid search ad.
Over 60% of travellers plan to visit quieter, lesser-known destinations.
Travellers are embracing JOMO, the joy of missing out, focusing on time with family and friends. It results in growing interest in stays near beaches, lakes, and mountains. The guide shows how to read shifts like this and position your property for them.
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Different areas of hotel marketing
Depending on your target audience, you can create your own marketing mix, leverage social media, paid ads, user-generated content, influencers and more to drive engagement and bookings.
Get the free eBook now →Content marketing.
As a modern hotelier, you're likely creating content across various channels: emails, blog posts, social media, videos, or influencer collaborations. When aligned with your brand, each piece plays a key role in your marketing strategy.
SEO optimisation.
SEO is far from dead. In fact, it's crucial if you want to appear in search results and reach travellers actively searching for hotels. An SEO-optimised website and SEO-driven content like blog posts can boost your visibility and attract more direct bookings.
Metasearch platforms.
In hospitality, guest reviews are important as they offer authentic insights that build trust and influence booking decisions. Platforms like TripAdvisor and Google make it easy to collect and showcase these reviews, helping you strengthen your reputation.
Paid hotel ads.
Don't forget about running some ads. You can advertise strategically on Google, on social media, or on trusted local tourism websites to support your marketing efforts.
Table of content
Five chapters, from brand to numbers
With our Hotel Marketing eBook, we aim to provide you with a detailed guide to building an effective marketing strategy, strengthening your online presence, and boosting bookings.
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Crafting your hotel's brand
Developing a compelling brand story, identifying your target audience, understanding their needs, and showing your unique selling points.
02/05
Optimising online presence
Your website and booking engine, OTAs, metasearch, and the profile pages travellers judge you on before they ever reach you.
03/05
Increasing direct bookings
How to shift demand away from commission-heavy channels and turn your own channels into the easiest way to book.
04/05
Content marketing
Emails, blog posts, social media, video, and influencer collaborations, aligned with your brand so each piece pulls its weight.
05/05
Analysing and measuring
Set KPIs and goals from the start so tracking performance is smooth, and future decisions are driven by data instead of instinct.
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With our Hotel Marketing eBook, we aim to provide you with a detailed guide to building an effective marketing strategy, strengthening your online presence, and boosting bookings.
- A five-chapter framework for your own marketing strategy
- Brand, website, and booking engine essentials
- Content, social, and influencer tactics that fit a small team
- The KPIs to track, and what to do with them
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