Here are 5 key marketing activities that hospitality and attraction businesses should be doing to promote their business in 2025: 

1. Content Marketing with a Focus on Experiential Storytelling:

• Why: Today’s travellers are seeking experiences, not just transactions. High-quality content that showcases the unique aspects of your offering, tells compelling stories of past guests, and provides valuable information about the destination builds desire and trust. 

• Examples: 
  • Blog posts: “A Weekend of Adventure in the [Local Area],” “Behind the Scenes at Our [Attraction],” “Top 5 Hidden Gems Near [Your Hotel].” 
  • High-quality photography and videography: Showcasing the ambiance, amenities, and experiences offered. Think cinematic videos of guests enjoying themselves, drone footage of stunning locations, and mouth-watering food photography. 
  • Guest testimonials and stories: Feature real guest experiences through blog posts, social media takeovers, or short video interviews. 
  • Virtual tours: Allow potential guests to explore your property or attraction remotely. 
  • Interactive content: Quizzes like “What’s Your Perfect Getaway Style?” or downloadable local guides. 

2. Hyper-Personalised Digital Marketing:

• Why: Generic marketing is easily ignored. Leveraging data to deliver personalised messages and offers based on past behaviour, preferences, and demographics significantly increases engagement and conversion rates. 

• Examples: 

• • Email marketing segmentation: Tailoring emails based on booking history, interests (e.g., spa lovers, adventure seekers), or loyalty programme status. 

• • Dynamic website content: Displaying relevant offers or information based on a visitor’s browsing history or location. 

• • Personalised social media advertising: Targeting specific demographics and interests with tailored ad creatives. 

• • Loyalty programmes with personalised rewards: Offering perks and discounts based on individual guest preferences and spending habits. 

• • Using CRM data to personalise on-property experiences: Staff being aware of guest preferences upon arrival. 

3. Active and Authentic Social Media Engagement:

• Why: Social media is where many potential guests discover and research travel options. Active and authentic engagement builds community, fosters trust, and encourages user-generated content (UGC). 

• Examples: 

• • Consistent posting of visually appealing content: High-quality photos and videos showcasing your property or attraction and the surrounding area. 

• • Responding promptly and thoughtfully to comments and messages: Showing that you value your audience’s feedback. 

• • Running engaging contests and giveaways: Encouraging interaction and brand awareness. 

• • Partnering with relevant influencers: Collaborating with travel bloggers, photographers, or local personalities to reach a wider audience. 

• • Encouraging and sharing user-generated content: Reposting guest photos and videos to showcase authentic experiences. 

4. Optimised Local SEO and Online Reputation Management:

• Why: For many travellers, their search for accommodation or attractions starts locally. A strong local SEO presence ensures you’re visible when they’re actively looking, and a positive online reputation builds trust and encourages bookings. 

• Examples: 

• • Optimising your Google My Business (now Google Business Profile) listing: Ensuring all information is accurate and up-to-date, including photos, hours, and contact details. 

• • Encouraging and actively managing online reviews on platforms like Google, TripAdvisor, and Booking.com: Responding to reviews (both positive and negative) professionally. 

• • Building local citations: Ensuring your business name, address, and phone number are consistently listed across relevant online directories. 

• • Targeting local keywords in your website content and SEO efforts. 

• • Engaging with local community events and organisations online. 

5. Seamless and Mobile-First Digital Experience:

• Why: Travellers are increasingly using their mobile devices to research, book, and manage their trips. A clunky or non-responsive website and booking process will lead to lost business. 

• Examples: 

• • A fully responsive and mobile-friendly website: Ensuring easy navigation and viewing on all devices. 

• • A streamlined and intuitive online booking engine: Making the reservation process quick and easy on mobile. 

• • Mobile apps (if applicable): Offering added convenience for loyal guests (e.g., mobile check-in/out, digital keys, personalised offers). 

• • Fast loading times: Optimising your website and digital assets for quick loading on mobile networks. 

• • Easy access to essential information: Clearly displaying contact details, directions, and FAQs on mobile. 

By focusing on these five key marketing activities, hospitality and attraction businesses can effectively promote their offerings, reach their target audience, build strong brand loyalty, and ultimately drive bookings and revenue in 2025. 

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All great questions.

In our usual style of ‘sharing is caring’ we thought that in this week’s blog topic, we would take a look at these questions and offer a little more insight and tangible strategies that you, whether a small or growing business can implement, as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5…

This is what we utilise as the 5 pillars of social media engagement:

Now, let us explain each one briefly…

1. Advocacy – we all know that advocacy is other people valuing your product or service and influencing others to do the same. This is always the strongest of all marketing methods, and most sought after in terms of enquiry generation with all organisations. The way to build advocay online is to not only be ethical and transparent to your audiences, but to provide consistency and value over a long period of time. It doesn’t happen overnight. Nor should you expect it to.
2. Contribution – Doing. Social contribution is essentially the responsibility you have to your community (aka your audience) by being present and valuable within the platforms (sites) and their needs (content). So staying frequent and ensuring you talk about the things that matter, to them.
3. Endorsement – Another form of ‘advocacy’ yet this refers to advocates or influencers actually endorsing and promoting yuor product without needing or having to. This endorsement can come in the way of sharing your news, posts or content across their own audiences. Think of someone opening a door for you as you enter a building, always say thank you and acknowledge the compliment that comes with that.
4. Appreciation – Again, the art of saying thank you. Too many organisations today take digital engagement too literal – social is still very much about people, and therefore the art of basic appreciation and manners is vital, say thank you, have human real interaction and ensure your audience feels valued and understood through your channels.
5. Observation – It’s not all about talking and shouting out, listening is just as vital as speaking, as it is in ‘real life’ listen to your audience and their on-going behaviour and interaction, do they like what you are saying, is it relevant, does it match their desires? Then, act.

I think nowadays far too many people think that digital is another world outside of natural human behaviour, when in fact it’s the absolute opposite. Digital engagement is very much about human interaction, just on a deeper level, where you have to work just as hard (if not harder) through digital screens to demonstrate transparency and ethics, which builds trust. Just like real life.

If you would like to learn more about how you can develop an effective and valuable social media engagement strategy for your organisation, whether you’re a start-up or innovative SME – we’d love to chat.

Call our professional and friendly team today for a free consultation on 01246 252855

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