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Google Ads & Meta Ads

Results & Strategy

Two Platforms, Two Jobs, One Booking

Search takes the traveller who is ready. Social creates the traveller who is not yet. Here is what each one is responsible for — and what it returns.

Google Ads

Demand Capture

Someone typing a destination and dates has already decided to travel. Google is where you win that booking before an OTA takes its cut.

High-intent destination and stay keywords
Brand defence to stop OTA leakage
Performance Max tuned to profitability
Search and display remarketing
45–65%

of total high-intent enquiries

3–5X

ROAS achieved

Meta Ads

Demand Creation

Nobody searches for a resort they have never heard of. Facebook and Instagram are where the shortlist gets built, long before the booking window opens.

Feed-native reels and property storytelling
Lookalike and travel-behaviour audiences
Guest UGC and review-led creative
Availability and offer remarketing
30–40%

of conversions assisted

22–35%

more direct enquiries in 90 days

Run either one alone and you leave money on the table. Run them together and Meta lifts the branded searches that Google converts — which is where the 18–30% drop in cost per enquiry actually comes from.

Plan My Campaigns
Performance Marketing

Paid Media for Hotels, Resorts and Travel Brands — Measured in Bookings, Not Clicks

Hospitality has a timing problem. Demand spikes in some months and disappears in others, and every enquiry you miss during a peak week is revenue you cannot recover later. Paid media solves for that because it can be turned up, narrowed, or redirected the moment the numbers move.

THDMA runs Google Ads and Meta Ads for hotels, resorts, travel companies and transport operators. Every rupee is tracked against something real — an enquiry, a call, a booking — so budget decisions are based on what the campaign returned rather than what it looked like.

Most general agencies struggle here. They do not know how booking windows behave, how seasonality distorts a month-on-month report, or why a cheap click from the wrong city is worse than an expensive one from the right one. We only work in travel and hospitality, so those questions are the starting point rather than something we learn on your budget.

15+

Travel & Hotel Clients

100%

In-House Team

3–5X

ROAS Achieved

30%+

Direct Booking Growth

The Model

You Pay for Outcomes, Not Exposure

Performance marketing works differently from traditional advertising because spend is tied to a specific action — a booking, a form submission, a call, a route filled. That makes the budget predictable in a way brand advertising never is.

It also makes the reporting honest. When every rupee is attributed, you can see which campaigns are producing bookings and which are quietly burning budget, and you can act on it the same week instead of the following quarter.

Targeting built on travel intent
Location and search behaviour signals
Booking-window timing
Spend traced to enquiries and revenue

What Our Clients Typically See

Ranges taken from live hospitality accounts. They come from structured execution over the first two to three quarters — not from spending more.

22–35%

more direct booking enquiries within 90 days

18–30%

lower cost per enquiry through tighter campaign structure

25–40%

better quality of booking intent

15–28%

less dependency on OTA platforms over six months

Google Ads

Catching Demand That Already Exists

Search is where the money is closest to the surface. Someone typing a destination and a set of dates has already decided to travel — the only question left is who they book with. Google Ads is how you make sure that answer is you and not an OTA taking a cut.

We build search campaigns around destination and stay-intent terms, defend your brand name so you are not paying to lose your own traffic, and add Performance Max only where it is genuinely profitable. Display and search remarketing brings back the people who looked once and left.

High-intent destination and stay keywords
Brand protection to reduce OTA leakage
Performance Max aligned to profitability, not volume
Search and display remarketing for non-converters

For most hospitality clients, Google brings in 45% to 65% of total high-intent enquiries. It is the primary conversion engine — everything else exists to make it work harder.

Meta Ads

Creating Demand Before the Search Happens

Nobody searches for a resort they have never heard of. Most travel decisions start as a feeling — a reel that stops the scroll, a photo of a room with the light coming in right, a review from someone who sounds like them. Meta is where that feeling gets built.

On Facebook and Instagram we run property and experience content to the audiences most likely to travel your way, then follow the people who engaged with proof: guest videos, honest reviews, what a stay actually feels like. By the time they search your name, the decision is mostly made.

Reels and property content built for the feed, not repurposed brochures
Interest, behaviour and lookalike targeting around real travel signals
Guest UGC and review-led creative that carries more weight than ad copy
Website and enquiry remarketing with availability and offer messaging

In booking journeys with multiple touchpoints, Meta typically assists 30% to 40% of conversions. It rarely gets the last click — and it is usually the reason the last click happens at all.

The Meta Funnel, Stage by Stage

Meta works as a full-funnel support system. Each stage has one job, and the creative changes to match it.

Awareness

Show the Place, Not the Pitch

UGC-style reels and guest videos that show the property, the experience and the surroundings. The goal at this stage is recognition — getting your property into the mental shortlist before anyone starts comparing prices.

Consideration

Let Other Guests Do the Talking

Testimonial-led UGC, reviews and value messaging. Travellers trust other travellers more than they trust brands, so this stage runs on proof rather than adjectives — what the stay was actually like, from people who paid for it.

Conversion

Close the Loop

Website visitor and enquiry remarketing with availability-focused and offer-based creative. These are people who already showed intent, so the ad answers the last remaining hesitation instead of reintroducing the property.

Better Together

Why the Two Platforms Need Each Other

Run search alone and you compete on price against everyone else bidding on the same keyword. Run social alone and you build interest that leaks away to whoever ranks first when the traveller finally searches. Together they close that gap.

Meta builds familiarity and trust, which raises branded search volume and changes how people behave once they reach your site. Warm audiences convert faster on search, and remarketing lifts both enquiry quality and booking confidence.

Meta lifts branded search volume; Google converts it
Warm audiences convert faster and cost less
Remarketing improves enquiry quality, not just quantity
Budgets are split by role, so channels do not overlap or waste spend

Managed properly, this integration strengthens overall return without the two platforms bidding against each other for the same person.

How We Run an Account

No campaign goes live before we understand how the property actually makes money.

01

Business & Revenue Analysis

We look at occupancy levels, enquiry-to-booking ratios, the OTA versus direct mix, and how seasonal demand moves through your year.

02

Intent-Led Strategy

Search-driven Google campaigns, supporting tourism campaigns, and layered Meta remarketing — each with a defined role in the funnel.

03

Execution

Revenue-aligned bidding, landing pages that match the ad promise, and KPI tracking wired in before the first rupee is spent.

04

Continuous Optimisation

Weekly pruning of what is not working, reallocation toward what is, and creative refreshes before fatigue sets in.

05

Scaling

Volume increases only after profitability holds steady, so growth does not come at the cost of margin.

Optimisation & Scaling

The First 90 Days Decide the Next Twelve

Most accounts we take over are not underfunded — they are leaking. Budget sits in campaigns that look busy and produce nothing, while the segments that actually convert are capped too low to matter.

In the first 60 to 90 days we usually cut wasted spend by 20% to 30% while improving click-to-enquiry rates by 15% to 25%. Profitable segments get scaled, underperformers get restructured or paused, and we only introduce scaling once profitability has stabilised — protecting margin while volume rises.

20–30%

reduction in wasted spend

15–25%

increase in conversion rates

What We Report On

Impressions and clicks are inputs. These are the numbers that tell you whether the spend was worth it.

Cost Per Enquiry

What it actually costs to put a booking-ready enquiry in front of your team, tracked by campaign and by season.

Enquiry Quality

Whether the enquiries arriving are serious about booking, or just filling your inbox.

Conversion Rate to Booking

How many enquiries become paying guests — the number that turns marketing activity into revenue.

Revenue Contribution

What paid media contributed to occupancy and revenue, separated from organic and OTA demand.

Reports are written to show how paid media moved occupancy and revenue — not to pad a slide with impressions.

Why THDMA

A Team That Only Works in Travel

We are not a general agency that happens to have a hotel client. Travel and hospitality is the only sector we work in, which means the strategy comes from patterns we have already seen — not from an ecommerce playbook adapted after the fact.

Campaigns structured around occupancy, RevPAR and booking windows
Full-funnel execution across search and social, run by one team
Creative and media handled in-house, so nothing gets lost in handoff
Reporting built for owners and revenue managers, not for dashboards
Focus on bookings and enquiry quality over traffic volume

If you want better enquiries, more direct bookings and acquisition costs you can actually plan around, it helps to work with people who already understand how your business fills rooms.

Frequently Asked Questions

01

How do Google Ads actually increase direct bookings?

Search ads reach travellers at the moment they are looking for a place to stay. When campaigns are built around destination, dates and pricing signals, the traffic you pay for is already close to booking. We route that demand to your own booking channel instead of letting it land on an OTA, which protects both your margin and the quality of the enquiry.

02

I already list on OTAs. Why should I invest in performance marketing?

OTAs deliver volume, but they take margin and control with it. Paid search gives you a direct channel that runs alongside your OTA presence rather than replacing it. Over time clients see better enquiry quality, ownership of guest data, and less dependence on OTAs — without losing OTA visibility.

03

What makes THDMA different from a generic agency?

We only work with travel and hospitality. Campaigns are structured around the metrics you actually run the property on — occupancy, RevPAR, seasonality, booking windows — instead of being adapted from an ecommerce or local-services playbook.

04

Do these campaigns work for travel brands and transport operators too?

Yes. Destination searches, tour packages, routes and transport services all respond well when campaigns are built around intent and geography. We structure tourism campaigns to catch travellers while they are still planning, which shortens the decision cycle and improves enquiry quality.

05

How long before we see results?

First enquiries usually arrive within two to three weeks. Stable, scalable performance takes 60 to 90 days as the data matures and remarketing layers come online. We build for durable profitability rather than an early spike that fades.

06

Will paid ads bring in low-quality enquiries?

Not when the targeting is disciplined. We control quality through intent-led keyword selection, landing page alignment and tight remarketing rules. Most clients end up with fewer but noticeably more booking-ready enquiries after the first optimisation cycle.

07

How do Meta Ads support Google Ads?

Meta does not replace search — it feeds it. Reels, guest content and remarketing build familiarity, which lifts branded search volume and improves how people convert once they do search. That combination lowers cost per enquiry and raises overall return.

08

What metrics do you report on?

Cost per enquiry, enquiry quality, conversion rate to booking, and revenue contribution. Reporting is written around business outcomes, not impressions and clicks.

09

Can this help during off-season or low occupancy?

This is where paid media earns its keep. By shifting budgets, keyword focus and offers, we keep enquiry flow moving through shoulder and off-season months so occupancy does not fall off a cliff.

10

Is this suitable for small hotels and boutique properties?

Very much so. Budgets scale to property size, and smaller independents often benefit most — precise targeting lets you compete for the right guest without a large branding spend.

Let's Look at Your Numbers First

Before we talk budgets, we would rather look at where your bookings currently come from and what they cost you. That conversation usually makes the opportunity obvious — and tells us honestly whether we can improve on what you already have.

Audit your current Google and Meta campaigns
Build a full-funnel plan around your booking calendar
Work with a team that only runs travel accounts
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