B2B MARKETING
How to Promote Auto in the Russian Market
The Russian car market is one of the largest and most attractive ones in the world arena. There is no doubt that Russians are happy to buy new cars; therefore, a marketer’s task is to understand what triggers work for newbies and mature drivers, what ads will be more effective and how to use human emotions to increase brand awareness, brand confidence and, along with that, boost car sales.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Profile of a Modern Russian Traveller
Before booking an air ticket, a buyer’s final decision is influenced by a wide range of factors, from its cost to a convenient mobile app to look for information about the flight. Google analysts, backed by Kantar TNS, undertook a study and determined what matters for Russians when choosing air tickets, how much time is required to make a decision to purchase them, as well as what vacation destinations are most popular.
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What Ads in Russia Pay Off Better?
In 2017, the average ROI for all media channels was 0.97, i.e. every ruble invested in advertising brought 97 kopecks of a short-run effect on sales (during the placement and up to 3 months afterwards). In Europe, the average ROI varies from 0.2 to 0.4, which is related to higher costs of ads in the Western world.
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Destination Branding and Marketing: Country Positioning in the Russian Travel Market
Destination marketing and branding covers a lot of tools and channels, by means of which an attractive travel product is created. Today, practically every country and even separate region and cities develop their brands.
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10 Inspiring Travel Blogs of Enthusiastic Travellers from Russia
It is bloggers who largely influence the perception of basically any tourism brand by modern tourists. However, there is a question: where and how do you find travel bloggers? We decided to make this task a bit easier for representatives of travel industry and made our selection of 10 amusing travel blogs of enthusiastic travellers from Russia.
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“The Russian Tourism Market Report: Trends, Analysis & Statistics”, Update, 2019
In order to understand not only the current state of the travel market, but also to evaluate its dynamics, it is important to follow the updates of data. And if you are interested in Russian tourists attraction, then our updated research “The Russian Tourism Market Report: Trends, Analysis & Statistics” will help you to find out what’s new in the Russian outbound travel market.
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Mass Market Travel and Tourism: Russian Tour Operators and Travel Agencies
As of December 2018, the Unified Federal Register of Tour Operators contains 4,377 companies, with more than 530 of them dealing with outbound tourism.
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Hospitality and Travel Marketing: Tips to Promote Destinations Overall and Attract Russian Tourists
Hospitality industry is not about business or economy. It is a wider notion including tourism and catering, service and entertainment, food, organization of museum and excursion activities and many others.
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Leisure Travel Market: Where Do Russian Travellers Prefer To Go on Vacation?
It is noteworthy that 9 of 10 most popular countries among Russian tourists are famous for its beach recreation. Probably, this is the cause of the biggest rating fall that Germany is experiencing (from the 2nd place in the overall popularity rating to the 6th place in respect of Russians’ travels for tourism purposes).
DIGITAL MARKETING
Marketing of Eastern and Western European Tourist Destinations in Russia
According to the statistics, five leaders in outbound tourism among countries of Eastern and Western Europe (except for bordering countries) are as follows: Germany, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria and Great Britain. Today we will look at examples of how these countries promote themselves in the Russian web space.
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Marketing of Northern and Southern European Tourist Destinations in Russia
European cities are annually visited by millions of Russian tourists. The statistics says it all: out of Top 20 popular countries among Russians, 12 are European.
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Ideas for Travel Content Marketing: What Attracts Russian Travellers
Content makes it possible to create a connection between you and a traveler, to build a trust-based relationship, and to add value and sense to the very process of preparation to a trip. Travel industry content marketing is not only about beautiful pictures and fairy-tales about travelling.
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Travel Digital Marketing: Best Online Advertising Tools in Russia for Tourism Industry
What advertising channels at what stage should be used so that a traveller became your loyal client right after his or her first trip? Today, we will inquire into various online promotion channels from the perspective of CJM.
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Travel Market Segmentation: A Key to Better Understanding of Russian Customer Needs
Our experience shows that travel business owners seldom or never know their target audience, while knowledge of market segmentation in travel and tourism industry is a foundation of any marketing strategy. Only knowing your target audience, you will be able to correctly set goals, objectives, to formulate a correct offer, and to choose the most effective tools to meet your KPI.
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Effective Social Media Marketing for Travel Industry in Russia
If you decided to go to the Russian market, and here to stay, do not stop on one social network, but experiment with different ones. Remember that communication with users in social media helps maintain an emotional bond. Test different content not only in its matter, but also its manner, analyze the audience’s reaction, and raise your reach.
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7 Steps to Create Your Perfect Destination Marketing Plan
A destination marketing plan is a complex of measures and decisions that must be implemented within a particular period (a month, a quarter, a year, 3 years). It is an integral party of a business plan for development of any country or region.
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Email Marketing for Travel Industry: How to Retain Customers
The travel industry provides a huge number of grounds to send e-mail throughout the whole customer lifecycle, from planning of a vacation until its end. The aim of e-mail marketing in tourism is to build a trust-based relationship between an agency and a client and to convert a tourist into a loyal customer.
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Marketing in travel: how to promote in the Russian market
When defining what travel marketing is, it is most often meant to be a promotion of a particular travel destination (a country, city, or region). However, experience has shown that marketing in the travel and tourism industry includes complementarity of all travel service providers and their interaction with each other.
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Russia in the World Travel Market
According to the report International Tourism Results 2018 and Outlook 2019 prepared by UNWTO, world travel market has been demonstrating heady growth rates for the second year in a row. At year-end, the growth of the world travel industry market hit 6%, with 1.4 billion international trips. The outbound tourism market of Russia finished the year of 2018 with a humble growth in the number of tourists.
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Russian business travel market: data and trends
In 2018, the share of foreign destinations was 38% out of the total number of air flights of secondees, having demonstrated a slight growth (+6%), as compared to the previous year. Regardless of a complicated political situation in France, Paris remains the most popular international destination.