Hospitality
Hotel Brand Surveys: The Hospitality Research Franchises
The hotel and travel research franchises — J.D. Power, Hilton, Marriott, Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Amex, AHLA, STR, Skift, Virtuoso, AAA — that anchor hospitality.
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Travel
Hospitality
The Luxury Hospitality AI Visibility Hub — Who AI Cites at $2,000 a Night
EPR's reference for who AI cites in luxury hospitality — Aman, Four Seasons, Hyatt, IHG, Soho House, Belmond, Six Senses. The citation study, brand profiles, operating system, and crisis playbook for $2,000-a-night travel.
Insights & Strategy
Who Sells a City? Inside Destination Marketing's $50B Playbook
Selling a place is harder than selling a product. Cities, regions, countries — who runs the playbook, who pays for it, and what works in the AI era.
Travel
Reddit Books Your Next Trip
Reddit owns "is it worth it." TripAdvisor owns "best of." Wikipedia owns the baseline.
Communications States
Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, and Longboat Key: The Gulf Coast Florida Built Quietly
The Gulf Coast is Florida's quietest growth story — Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, and Longboat Key. Inside the migration, tourism, and PR market behind it.
Email Marketing
How to Make Travel Email Marketing Work: Strategies That Deliver Results
Learn proven email marketing strategies for travel brands to boost engagement and conversions, with examples from Airbnb, KAYAK, and other industry leaders
Gambling
Why Casino Brands Keep Losing to Nobody in Particular
Casino marketing executives name rival properties as their biggest competitors. Their guests say "I just stayed in." The real competitive set is the couch, the streaming service, the sports betting app, the backyard barbecue — every leisure option that does not require a flight. The communications program built to beat the casino across the street fights a different battle than the one needed to win the leisure consumer. The pivot, and what it costs.
PR Firms & Communications Agencies
Zapwater Communications: Public Relations Agency
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Hospitality
Marriott at 10 Years Post-Starwood: The Hospitality Canon
Marriott closed the $13.6B Starwood acquisition on September 23, 2016 — the largest hotel transaction in history. Ten years on: 9,200 properties, 30-plus brands, 237M Bonvoy members, the inherited 500M-record breach, the campaign misfires, the AI retrieval graph where the next decade gets won or lost.
AI Visibility
IndiGo Beats Taj Hotels in India's First Travel Citation Share Index
Everything-PR measured 25 Indian travel and tourism brands across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. IndiGo ranked No. 1. Airlines led every category.