Articles tagged “social”

Online Travel

Hostelworld CEO Sees Profit Rebound, Adoption of Traveler Chat Tool

Hostelworld CEO Gary Morrison is ringing in the evolution of the hostel dweller. More solo travelers look for friends with chat tools, and bunking up can bring carbon emissions down.

Elizabeth Casolo | 6 days ago

Hostelworld CEO Sees Profit Rebound, Adoption of Traveler Chat Tool

Tourism

Travel on TikTok: Top Trends, Longer Videos and the Future of Booking Trips

TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable.

Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago

Travel on TikTok: Top Trends, Longer Videos and the Future of Booking Trips

Online Travel

Snap’s New Feature for Hotels and Destinations Shows the Promise of Visual Search

The messaging app bets it can leap into becoming a platform for discovering places and hotels. Odds are against the company. But odds are in favor of visual-first search becoming widespread.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Snap’s New Feature for Hotels and Destinations Shows the Promise of Visual Search

Online Travel

Interview: Facebook’s Head of Travel Reveals How Brands Are Winning on the Platform

What a year it has been for Facebook and the travel industry and it's not over yet. For a company with the unparalleled size and reach of Facebook to say that travel is the industry it's putting some of its most significant investment towards in the next year should tell you something about the state of the industry. We can't wait to see what's in store for 2017.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 7 years ago

Interview: Facebook’s Head of Travel Reveals How Brands Are Winning on the Platform
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Online Travel

The Future of Visual Content Marketing: 5 Strategies for Travel Brands

Register for this webinar to learn how leading travel brands are using visual content to change the ways customers discover and share their travel experiences.

Curalate + Skift | 8 years ago

The Future of Visual Content Marketing: 5 Strategies for Travel Brands

Media and PR

New Skift Trends Report: How to Harness the Facebook Ecosystem in 2016

In a world of fly-by-night apps and social media bubbles, Facebook has matured as one of the more important communications platforms.

Todd Wasserman, Skift | 8 years ago

New Skift Trends Report: How to Harness the Facebook Ecosystem in 2016

Hotels

The Future of Social Media and Content Marketing for All-Inclusive Resorts

Digital brand communications, social media and the rise of digital bookings are impacting the industry at a rising rate year over year, in ways big and small.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

The Future of Social Media and Content Marketing for All-Inclusive Resorts

Media and PR

Instagram Brings Brands One Tap Closer to Customers With New Ad Product

The carousel is visually appealing, but clicking through to a mobile branded site for travel brands may still not be enough.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 9 years ago

Instagram Brings Brands One Tap Closer to Customers With New Ad Product

Media and PR

Megatrends 2015: Travel Brands Look to Instagram for the Influencer Bump

We’re still in the early days of the Instagram Influencer, but the one thing we do know is that great visuals will catch on no matter who’s doing the sharing.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 9 years ago

Megatrends 2015: Travel Brands Look to Instagram for the Influencer Bump

Media and PR

South African Booking Site Acquires Social Startup Satisfly

With so many startups focusing on specific niches of the travel market, we will continue to see more acquisitions of small companies by small companies as competition consolidates.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

South African Booking Site Acquires Social Startup Satisfly