A recent study highlights how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming digital advertising, providing hotels with new opportunities to increase direct bookings and better compete with online travel agencies. This study, presented in a white paper by D-Edge Hospitality Solutions, shows that hotels using AI-driven ad campaigns, in combination with manual campaigns, have seen a significant rise in direct revenue.
There’s no denying the dominance of Google when it comes to search marketing. In October 2022, Google’s market share of search was 91.2%, making it by far the most popular search engine in the world.For hotels, Google offers numerous opportunities for reaching the hundreds of millions of travellers who search for hotels on Google every day. One option that has been gaining a lot of traction recently is Google Hotel Ads (GHA), a metasearch platform.