Travel SEO, GEO, PPC & paid social specialists

Our travel and tourism digital marketing agency consultants specialise in PPC, SEO, AI search and paid social media advertising for travel and tourism businesses. We support online travel agents, tour operators, luxury travel brands, tourism boards, destination marketing organisations, airlines, cruise operators, hotels and short-term rental companies.

Travel digital marketing agency specialists

Since 2011, our travel PPC and SEO specialists have helped holiday, travel, tourism, leisure and hospitality businesses, from boutique operators to international brands, turn wanderlust into revenue, growing relevant traffic, leads, direct bookings and return on investment. We’ve worked with adventure travel brands, safari operators and hotels such as Scott Dunn, Journeys by Design, Wayfairer Travel, Travel Nation, Finest Stays, Manor Cottages, Native and Thistle.

Luxury Cottages in Devon by Finest Stays

Record-breaking
SEO & PPC
revenue & ROAS

Read the Finest Stays case study

Cottage Holidays - A cottage situated by a stream

Bookings from SEO & PPC increased to over 3000 in 12 months

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Travel SEO & PPC agency experts

Whether you’re a travel agent, luxury travel brand, tour operator, tourism agency, villa specialist, adventure or safari operator or a global hotel chain, our travel SEO and PPC experts have proven expertise in increasing direct bookings, shoulder season demand and maximising return on investment across UK, US and wider international markets.

Our travel and tourism PPC and SEO agency consultants have doubled monthly ecommerce revenue for a luxury holiday company within 6 months by gaining page one of Google visibility for the target SEO keywords whilst increasing PPC returns, as well as growing a short term rental travel brand’s bookings from SEO and PPC to over 3000 bookings per year.

SEO, GEO & PPC strategies for the travel industry

Travel is bought on desire long before it’s booked. Our travel digital marketing specialists combine audience intent, seasonal demand, travel market trends and your Google Analytics data to build Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads and SEO campaigns that turn a saved Reel or a screenshotted sunset into a confirmed booking.

Travellers’ first port of call these days is often now an LLM. They ask the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini where to go and who to book with. We provide GEO services for travel companies to make sure your brand is included in LLMs’ recommendations, so you’re present at every touchpoint between inspiration, comparison and payment.

“Working with ThoughtShift has been a game-changer for Finest Stays. The team is an absolute pleasure to collaborate with – always responsive, professional, and proactive. Our rise in online presence speaks volumes, from significant growth in organic search visibility to an incredible return on ad spend. It truly feels like we’re working with the pros, and the results show we’ve stepped up our digital marketing game in a big way.”
- Kate Allen, Founder at Finest Stays

ThoughtShift have always delivered return on investment. An honest, knowledgeable and friendly team who always make me feel they’ve got mine and my businesses’ best interests at heart. I’d strongly recommend ThoughtShift.
- Chris Grimes, Short Term Rental Consultant and Former MD at Manor Cottages

Award-winning travel PPC & SEO agency

Our travel SEO and PPC agency team are honoured to be the winners of prestigious awards such as the Digital Marketing Excellence Award from the Chartered Institute of Marketing for our work with a luxury leisure brand growing total return on investment from SEO and PPC from 2X to 20X.

Travel FAQs

How long should travel brands expect SEO, PPC and digital marketing campaigns to take before they produce meaningful results?

It depends on where your website is starting from. A site with existing authority and a clean technical base will usually see results faster than one with technical and content cannibalisation issues or thin destination pages. Paid search and paid social can provide data within days and meaningful results within one or two months as campaigns are optimised.

SEO and GEO typically take three to six months for initial movement and six to twelve months for competitive destination and package terms. Travel also requires working ahead of demand. Content and rankings need to be in place before booking windows open, so, for example, work carried out in autumn can help win bookings in the new year.

Can a travel digital marketing agency adapt its strategy to different travel business models and audiences?

A digital marketing strategy should be tailored to each travel business. It has to fit how the business makes its money, who it’s selling to and how those people go about researching and booking. A boutique hotel that wants more direct bookings is in a completely different position from a tour operator that lives on leads. Then there are aggregators fighting for high-intent searches, and travel tech companies whose buyers are other businesses.

Positioning changes things too. Luxury, adventure and sustainable travel each have their own audience, and those people don’t search or buy in the same way. KPIs need the same thinking. Depending on the business, we look at direct bookings, how much it still leans on OTAs, the quality of its leads, app growth or whether it is actually reaching decision makers in the travel industry.

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