When you compare two hotels in the same city on any travel website and they’re both priced the same per night but one displays photos, virtual tours and videos (that effectively inspire and tell that hotel’s story) and the other only displays photos, which hotel is more appealing to you? Research proves it is the hotel using video marketing with virtual tours and videos.
By adding videos to your online hotel listings, you’ll be able to give online travel shoppers more information about your hotel and influence their booking decisions. How do we know? Because 89% of travel shoppers stated that travel related online video influenced their travel purchase decisions (PhoCusWright, 2008).
A study we conducted with a major North American hotel chain tracked the behavior of one million online travel shoppers. The study found that:
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GeoBeats Video Distribution Packages include production of a high-quality video, shot on-site at your hotel, a license to the VBrochure™ Ultra Premium Online Hotel Merchandising System and distribution to thousands of online channels in VFM Leonardo's VNetwork.
As a management company overseeing various hotel flags, MMI works to leverage the best strategies to promote our diverse portfolio. The onus is on the management company to promote each property’s story. VFM Leonardo helps us showcase that story.
Micajah Sturdivant, Vice President – Hotel Services,
MMI Hotel Group