Missed The Webinar? We Got You, Boo!

Welcome to new territory. Global pandemic? Check. Tourism lock down? Virtually everywhere. Feelings of hopelessness and despair? Sometimes. Oh! And now there’s all of those things you need to learn. We get it. We’ve been bombarded too. It’s that anxious, nagging sense of “running in place.” That’s why we decided

UX Design for Tourism Sales

UX (or user experience) design has become a hot topic in every industry, and travel is no exception. As consumers are booking more and more features of their trip on the go – from the hotel room to the paddle boat tour, and transportation in between – a hassle-free and

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Von Mack Agency Expands, Welcomes Ethan Rodrigue As Accounts Manager

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Von Mack Agency, Inc. – New Orleans’ leading boutique tourism marketing firm – continues to grow by leaps and bounds into the new year. The agency has hired Ethan Rodrigue, communications industry veteran and Louisiana Tourism Leadership Academy graduate, to facilitate this growing footprint as their

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11 Tips to Make Customers Fall for Your Travel Brand

People are pretty picky about their brand allegiance these days – and that’s especially true in travel and tourism. If you want a person’s long-term referral business, expect to do some wooing. So in honor of everyone’s favorite commercialized, stress-inducing and sometimes-nauseating holiday, (cough, Valentine’s Day, cough), we’re showing our

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A Look Back at the Biggest Tourism Trends of the 2010’s

With 2020 just a few days away, we’re feeling a little nostalgic. Just 10 years ago, many of us were still using flip phones with slide-out keyboards and printing photos at CVS instead of posting them on Snapchat. Clearly, tech changes fast. And tourism marketing trends change just as quickly.

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6 Common Problems with Google Ads (And How to Solve Them!)

Tell us if this sounds like you: you spent hours building your Google Ads campaign, replete with carefully chosen keywords, clever headlines, and decked out with your finest automated extensions. You went live. And after getting through “the learning stage,” things are smooth sailing! “Managing Google Ads isn’t so bad

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Lt. Governor’s Travel Summit: A Trade Show Marketing Case Study

The Louisiana Travel Summit draws in the biggest names in our state’s tourism industry. As always, we enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about what everyone has been up to, and catch up on travel trends between mimosa toasts and bloody mary breaks.  Leading up to the event, we were

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5 Ways Tour Companies Can Maximize Gallery Ads

Google is rolling out a new ad format that feels like it was made for tour operators. The new gallery ads are mobile only, and allow you to showcase multiple images at once. So you can serve up action shots from all of your best excursions, right in the search