Here's (some ideas) of what travel companies should be doing to get ready for the doors opening for international bookings ✈️:
👉Add "anywhere/anytime" selections into your booking forms - people don't know where and when they want to go, they just want to find a deal and a safe location. Don't rely on them knowing an exact date and location and instead be the experts that tell them the best places to go
👉Pull internal search and offsite search data and understand which locations people are "googling" the most. Where is most in demand, which location pages are getting the most traction, where does everyone feel safe to go
👉Use that data broken down by region and demographic to brief PPC and creative teams to get in front of them with the right products

👉High volume Digital PR activity to drive links to relevant areas of the site to boost them organically and drive brand awareness
👉Update all landing page copy to communicate security, safety and reliability

👉Update all location page copy to make them aware of local lockdown, curfew, covid restriction rules
👉Ensure your "things to do" pages are updated - people will be looking for activities through the travel company more than booking elsewhere. They want to escape but trust it will go ahead (e.g boat trips and excursions)
👉Start posting on social when everyone else is quiet

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20 Jan
There's only so much talent in digital PR right now and if you haven't noticed, everyones hiring.

Senior people who have been there and done that in digital PR are extremely rare and it will cost you a lot to get recruiters to help, they come with pre-existing ways of working..
my advice... create them. Progress your team you've got, dedicate someone to training.

My focus is to create the next level of digital PR talent - we have 25 in our digital PR team alone and growing even further. International countries (europe mainly) is even harder ...
And our focus is to train the next german PRs, spanish and Dutch to our standard.

It's faster to do that in 6 months that to get someone in at this rate.
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We’ve been thinking about completely scrapping emails and going 100% on slack. Here’s reasons why we WONT be doing that:

1. It’s hard to hold people accountable to deadlines on slack. As someone who must set 20 tasks a day to their staff, I can’t remember half of them. Email ...
Is easier traceable, easier to find the deadline and easier to hold someone accountable without going through hundreds more messages that you sent between setting that task and chasing for it.

2. Slack has become the way to “chat at the water cooler”. Small talk, gossip, generic
Chat, is a big part of our slack now. We have multiple groups to keep convos focused, but strict tasks, documents, convos all get lost in it. Use email to separate it out.

3. You can’t bcc - I use this a lot when keeping people in the loop
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Tech SEO ✔️
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