DIGITAL MARKETING
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.
MEDIA BUYING
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.
B2B MARKETING
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.
B2B MARKETING
Russian travel industry market size: statistics and trends
Russians’ tourist outflow growth rates in 2018 dropped due to a natural deceleration after an explosive growth in 2017, a reduction of real disposable population incomes, and a severe weakening of the ruble’s exchange rate since spring 2018. World Cup 2018 joined these factors, too, having left a significant part of solvent people at home (in Russia) at the top of the season (a large number of people in big cities who were servicing the World Cup, from rescue workers to doctors).
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5 Travel Marketing Trends You Need to Know in 2019
Tourism individuality is on the top of travel marketing trends—one third of respondents (34%) are interested in ready-made personal recommendations for travels. Notably, 41% would entrust travel planning to artificial intelligence that would offer options on grounds of the analysis of their previous travels. Taking into account that the majority of Russian entrust preparation of their travels to travel agencies (more than 60% Russian tourists prefer organized tours), personalized offers will surely catch the interest of a greater part of tourists.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Russian online travel market: statistics and trends
Opportunities of the eTravel market are expanding by means of the spread of various ticket or tour aggregators. Besides, in order to save on a trip and plan it correctly, tourists can use applications that select advantageous offers and optimize travel expenses. At that, a visible popularity is being gained by products that let organize tours on one’s own and create individual recreation programs.
B2B MARKETING
6 Steps to Improve Your Destination Marketing Strategy in Russia
Have you decided to promote your travel destination in the Russian market, but you do not know how to market your tourist destination and where to start from? We will tell you how to make up your tourism destination marketing strategy, taking into account peculiarities of the Russian tourism market. If you already have a ready-made strategy, out tips will help you customize it for Russian tourists.
DIGITAL MARKETING
What are Russian tourists interested in being abroad: Vacation Queries
People use Yandex services not only at home, but also abroad. They look up the Internet for opinions on tourist attractions, take interest in local cuisine and history, and handle unknown words and sunburned backs.
DIGITAL MARKETING
9 Myths about Instagram Promotion
If you decided to choose Instagram as one of promotion channels in the Russian market, this article is for you. We will tell you about the most popular fallacies and ineffective promotion methods, which are often suggested by local agencies to their clients.
DIGITAL MARKETING
2019 Russian Online Marketing Trends
Last year of 2018, 81% Russians used Internet, with 65% of them going online daily. What is more, according to MediaScope, as of November 2018, the percentage of Russians aged 18 to 34 who use Internet totalled 95%. In our blog, we are going to tell you what trends will let us not only increase media outreach, but also reach out to Russian users in 2019.
B2B MARKETING
Overview of “The Russian Tourism Market Report: Trends, Analysis & Statistics”
If you represent a tourism ministry, foreign company engaged in the travel industry, airline, hotel or foreign advertising agency which deal with the promotion of tourism and travel-related services in Russia, then this research will be extremely useful for you. The reserach represents comprehensive Russian travel industry market analysis.
DIGITAL MARKETING
According to forecasts published in Newzoo 2018 Report, the Russian game market will reach $1.7 billion and Russia will move up to rank 11 in the world. In 2017, Russia became the largest e-sports market of Europe.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Speciality of Russian Social Networks
Nowadays, Vkontakte, My World, and Odnoklassniki from Russia compete quite favorably with their foreign counterparts or even beat them in the Russian Internet.
MEDIA BUYING
Situational Marketing and the 2018 FIFA World Cup
How to make money on info-motives? FIFA World Cup as a great example!
DIGITAL MARKETING
Ecosystem: Performance Marketing in Russia, Market Overview - all you need to know!
How the Internet advertising market works in Russia: pros and cons, promotion strategies and other interesting facts!
B2B MARKETING
Personalized Marketing for B2B in Russia
Personalized marketing is usually understood as a complex of marketing activities, in which the personal data of the client are actively used. It can be a personalized offer based on information about the client, as well as the creation of personalized content intended for a particular audience. Also, personalized marketing refers to tools used by online stores aimed at offering the client exactly what he might need, but this interpretation refers more to the b2c segment. And today, read the RMAA Group blog about personalized marketing in the b2b segment.
MEDIA BUYING
Every year, the attractiveness of Asian countries for tourists from the Russian Federation is growing. What methods are used to increase the flow of tourists from Russia? Read about this courtesy of the RMAA Group.
B2B MARKETING
What are the best social media networks for B2B promotion in Russia?
One of the main trends in the Internet marketing worldwide nowadays is to use social media marketing (SMM) as a B2B-marketing tool. Currently the usage of social networks as a marketing tool is quite popular in Russia, in particular – as a channel of interaction with a target audience of consumers. Companies that use social networks can increase brand awareness and customer loyalty, attract target audience, push up sales and perform other actions allowing them to achieve the main objective - to increase profits.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Social Networks in Russia and Their Development in 2018
In 2018, social networks will become more interesting for Russians. To learn what tools will be used for to draw attention of Russian users, read the article by RMAA Group.