Travel Technology,Industry Outlook
Sojern | January 11, 2023
On January 10, 2023, Sojern, a pre-eminent digital marketing platform developed for travel, and PUSHTech, a multichannel platform including CRM, marketing automation, sales, and support, announced a partnership to assist hotel partners in making the most of their first-party data.
Sojern and PUSHTech will help the travel industry with data strategies in the cookieless age. Around 81% of hotels increase revenue using first-party data. However, staying ahead of digital landscape changes requires a well-planned strategy. Sojern's travel marketing platform offers unparalleled visibility into travel demand and intelligence to assist partners in augmenting their budgets and establishing long-term plans. With the aid of PUSHTech, hotels may improve client relations, control their database, and boost direct sales.
"Our mission is to help businesses generate more effective, efficient and valuable communications with their customers through the use of automated and intelligent solutions. With a collective goal of better serving the hospitality industry we are pleased to announce our partnership with Sojern, Working together means we can better maintain our philosophy of continuous innovation in the development of an automated marketing, sales and management platform."
-David Ezquerro, Chief Revenue Officer, PUSHTech
(Source: PR Newswire)
First-party data is fundamental to the hotelier's toolkit. This unification will help integrate Sojern's innovative travel marketing and PUSHTech's platforms while taking a privacy-forward approach to the safe and guarded management of partner data. As a result, hotel partners will achieve escalated campaign performance, solid customer relationships, and boosted revenue, leading to direct sales growth and driving profitability.
About Sojern
Sojern is a top digital marketing tool for travel marketers. Multichannel marketing from the company boosts direct demand. AI and traveler intent data enable these solutions. It is the leading travel marketing tool designed to help marketers overcome travel buying cycle challenges. It provides unparalleled traveler information and automatic optimization to match its clients with the right travelers. In addition, the company optimizes across the platform to help clients grow and profit.
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Travel Technology
Sojern | August 25, 2021
Sojern, a leading provider of digital travel marketing solutions, today published a new report titled, “How Travel Marketers Are Activating Digital Advertising in 2021.”
Worldwide Business Research (WBR) Insights surveyed senior decision makers in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and Middle East and Africa who own the marketing budget for a hotel, attraction or tourism brand. These 300 travel marketers shared key challenges faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led them to test new solutions, innovate with new messaging, and generally do more with less.
“The last 18-months have been quite the rollercoaster for travel marketers navigating the global pandemic, but one thing is clear: travel marketers are more focused than ever before on effectively and efficiently spending precious resources to drive a business return,” said Noreen Henry, Chief Revenue Officer, Sojern. “In this environment you need to be agile, data-driven and optimistic—travel is coming back and it’s a great time to take part in that recovery.”
Key findings of travel marketers surveyed include:
56 percent agree that the current environment is ideal for direct response campaigns. Travellers are booking directly because of clearer cancelation or refund policies, coupled with their frustrating experiences navigating online travel agency (OTA) reimbursements for cancelled trips.
88 percent have increased or kept their digital advertising strategy budget the same since COVID-19.
87 percent tightened spending on brand campaigns and increased spending on performance campaigns in 2020.
84 percent rated machine learning and artificial intelligence as top priority for personalisation across channels.
Consumers are eager to travel, and with the increasingly widespread administration of COVID-19 vaccines, the hard hit travel, media, and entertainment industries are all expected to rebound in 2021. The upward swing is already under way, with a surge in domestic and regional tourism, as newly vaccinated consumers exercise the option to travel within their own borders.
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Mobile Marketing Magazine | November 20, 2019
TripAdvisor has launched its first self-service advertising platform, enabling small and medium-sized businesses and agencies to take control of their cross-platform ad campaigns on the travel and restaurant reviews platform. The TripAdvisor Media Manager enables advertisers to build their ads directly within the platform, where they can upload their own creative, set their own campaign budget and schedule, and monitor results and adjust as they see fit. Businesses can also utilise three targeting options – including user location, browsed locations, and recent travel planning activities – to reach consumers with their content. “We’re excited to enable local and small businesses to easily and quickly create and upload their own campaigns that they can push live on TripAdvisor in a streamlined way. The real benefit is the ability to quickly grow a business by reaching nearly 460m loyal, engaged and connected travellers who want to hear from brands that are relevant to them,” said Christine Maguire, vice president of advertising revenue for TripAdvisor.
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