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EPR covers travel and hospitality as separate publications — Airlines, Hotels, Cruise, Destinations, Restaurants, Tourism Boards. Each vertical is its own index. This is the umbrella.
Restaurant marketing in 2026 — TikTok, Google Business, Resy, ChatGPT visibility, UGC, creator pipeline. The seven-layer stack that moves covers in the AI-engine era.
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