Hospitality Marketing
How Do You Win the Booking Before an OTA Does?
Travelers research accommodations long before they book. They compare options across search, social media, review platforms, travel sites, and AI-powered recommendation tools, often encountering multiple competitors before making a decision.
Orange 142 helps hotels, resorts, and hospitality brands stay visible at every stage of the booking journey. Our integrated marketing strategies are designed to increase awareness, improve occupancy, and drive more direct bookings.
OVERVIEW
Why Choose Orange 142?
The hospitality industry has always been competitive, but technology continues to reshape how travelers discover and book accommodations. Hotels, resorts, inns, and vacation properties now compete with one another, as well as with online travel agencies, travel marketplaces, and AI-powered recommendation platforms that increasingly influence booking decisions.
As traveler behavior evolves, hospitality marketers must balance brand visibility, direct booking goals, guest acquisition costs, and long-term loyalty across a growing number of channels.
Industry Expertise with a Fresh Perspective
With deep experience working with hospitality marketing and many other industries, we bring innovative, cross-sector strategies to destination marketing. We specialize in reaching meeting and sports planners, multicultural audiences, leisure travelers, and group sales prospects.
Comprehensive, Full-Service Marketing
We provide a seamless, integrated approach across channels, from digital ads and influencer marketing to foot traffic attribution and economic impact analysis. We optimize campaigns to maximize ROI using advanced analytics, audience insights, and attribution modeling.
Dedication, High-Touch Partnership
Our team offers hands-on support, working closely with clients to refine strategies, optimize performance, and drive measurable results.
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OUR SERVICES
Multichannel Advertising & Strategy
Orange 142 helps hospitality brands navigate a rapidly changing marketing landscape. Our team develops integrated strategies that connect advertising, content, social media, search visibility, audience targeting, and performance measurement to support occupancy goals and increase direct bookings.
Whether you're promoting a seasonal offer, opening a new property, growing shoulder-season demand, or reducing reliance on OTAs, we provide the expertise and execution needed to help your property compete
Targeted Hotel and Resort Digital Advertising Campaigns
We support a full suite of digital campaign tactics and strategies: programmatic media buys, paid social, retargeting, and in-feed advertising to extend visibility and engagement.
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Audience Development & Behavioral Targeting & Remarketing
Enjoy success coming out of the gate. Our proprietary database of online behavior, search history, and demographics lets us identify your high-intent travelers. We also segment audiences by interest, such as cultural travelers, food enthusiasts, and adventure seekers.
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Creative Strategy, Development & Execution
We offer end-to-end campaign support, including:
- Strategic guidance on ad placements, messaging, and audience targeting for maximum impact.
- Custom development of digital assets, including banner ads, landing pages, email marketing creatives, and ad copywriting tailored for each campaign.
- A/B testing and best practices to ensure creative elements align with audience preferences and campaign objectives.
Cross-Channel Media Execution
Reach your audience wherever they are: display, native, video mobile, and social media. Our innovative re-engagement strategies keep your properties top of mind for potential tourists and meeting planners.
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Ongoing Optimization & Performance Tracking
Our account teams will continuously monitor and refine your campaign to maximize engagement and conversions. We eschew cookie-cutter campaigns, focusing on custom KPIs that track website visits, visitor engagements, hotel bookings, and foot traffic attribution.
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Performance Marketing
Performance marketing is a major part of modern destination marketing, helping hospitality brands stay visible as travelers research, compare, and plan trips across search, social media, streaming platforms, and AI-powered discovery experiences. Orange 142 manages both traditional and AI-driven campaigns designed to increase visibility, engagement, and visitation.
What we offer:
- PPC campaign strategy and management, including Paid Search, PMAX, and AI Max
- Paid social advertising and Meta Advantage+ campaigns
- Creative testing and asset optimization
- Cross-channel reporting and performance analysis
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Social Media Marketing
Orange 142 helps destinations build a social presence that works across the full traveler journey, from inspiration to trip planning to sharing the experience afterward. We handle the strategy, content, and day-to-day management, but we also connect social to the broader media and marketing effort so it's not running in its own silo.
What we offer:
- Strategic social media planning and execution
- Content creation and optimization
- Community management and engagement
- Cross-platform strategy and channel expertise
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Influencer Marketing
Orange 142 builds influencer campaigns around creators who have genuinely engaged audiences, not just large ones. We vet for real alignment with the destination, nurture those relationships over time, and set clear guidelines to protect the brand. From trip coordination to content delivery and performance reporting, we manage the entire program so the destination receives authentic content that drives visitation.
What we offer:
- Influencer strategy and creator selection
- Contracting and compliance support
- Influencer relationship development and management
- Event-driven influencer campaigns
- Itinerary planning and coordination
- Content creation and campaign management
- Local stakeholder and business coordination
- Measurement and performance tracking
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GEO & AI Visibility
More travelers are starting their trip planning in AI tools, asking specific questions, such as “best family beach vacations in the Southeast” or “host a corporate meeting with golf and shopping.” If your destination's content isn't structured to answer those questions clearly, you won't show up in the response. Orange 142 helps tourism brands and DMOs assess their AI visibility and optimize their content so that when a traveler asks an AI engine where to go, your destination is part of the answer.
What we offer:
- GEO and SEO strategy for travel and tourism brands
- AI visibility and content readiness assessments
- Destination content optimization
- Structured content and schema recommendations
- Internal linking and entity alignment
- AI-ready content development and authority building
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Co-Op Marketing
Orange 142 helps hotels and resorts build co-op marketing programs that allow hotels, attractions, restaurants, and local businesses to pool budgets and participate in larger regional campaigns. By sharing costs, destinations and tourism partners can access digital advertising opportunities that may otherwise be out of reach individually.
What we offer:
- Co-op campaign planning and coordination
- Shared media buying and budget management
- Partner creative coordination
- Seasonal and regional tourism campaigns
- Performance reporting and partner attribution
Foot Traffic Attribution
Our foot traffic attribution services let you tie ads seen to real-world events, proving that travelers who saw your campaign actually visited your destination, attraction, or event and bought tickets. Move beyond vanity metrics and show true campaign ROI with concrete visitation data. All location data is anonymized and aggregated, helping you stay compliant with privacy regulations while focusing your media spend on what actually drives travelers through your doors.
What we offer:
- Pixel-based tracking
- Polygon mapping
- Geo-fencing
- Retro-fencing
- Advanced audience segmentation
- Geoconquesting
- Benchmarking & competitive analysis
- Custom attribution reporting
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See our Best Practices for Foot Traffic Attribution guide.
One Point of Contact for All Services
Orange 142 takes full responsibility for managing marketing, media, and web development initiatives, allowing you to spend more time on your key responsibilities. We have built processes to manage myriad details of your initiatives and ensure ongoing optimization.
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Reporting & Attribution
What is the business impact of your ad spend? We will provide monthly analytics reports with insights on engagement, impressions, audience growth, and campaign performance. We also use Sprout Social and other analytics tools to track top-performing content and refine strategy. And we continuously test and optimize campaign elements to improve ROI and audience retention.
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Content Develement
We work closely with influencers to define deliverables, including videos, social posts, and stories. We take steps to ensure you receive high-quality content that resonates with travel audiences while maintaining brand authenticity.
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Web Development
We help you build your websites that do more than look good. They connect, sync, and perform as part of a larger system built for scale and results.
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MARKETING SERVICES
Marketing Services
Orange 142 can elevate your destination's visibility through our targeted social media and influencer marketing campaigns, ensuring you capture attention in this competitive landscape.
WHY WORK WITH ORANGE 142
Award-Winning Hospitality Expertise
Orange 142 works with hotels, resorts, vacation rentals, and destination partners across the country. We understand the unique challenges hospitality brands face, including OTA competition, seasonal demand fluctuations, occupancy goals, direct booking strategies, and evolving traveler behavior.
One Partner, Multiple Disciplines
Hospitality marketing rarely succeeds in silos. Orange 142 brings media, social media, influencer marketing, GEO, SEO, content development, web services, and performance reporting together under one team, giving you a single point of contact and a coordinated strategy.
Proven Results
Our hospitality clients have achieved measurable improvements in visibility, engagement, occupancy, and direct bookings. From Cape Resorts' 32:1 return on ad spend to award-winning search and social campaigns for Emerald Isle Realty, our work is designed to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Ready for What's Next
Traveler discovery continues to evolve. Search engines, AI-powered recommendations, social platforms, and travel marketplaces are changing how accommodations are found and booked. Orange 142 helps hospitality brands adapt to these shifts while maintaining focus on the metrics that matter most.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How can we increase direct bookings and reduce dependence on OTAs?
A: Online travel agencies can be valuable distribution partners, but they also add costs, limit direct relationships with guests and even steer travelers away from your property. Orange 142 helps hospitality brands strengthen direct booking strategies through paid media, search visibility, remarketing, content, and audience development efforts designed to bring travelers back to owned channels.
Q: How can our properties remain visible throughout the new booking journey?
A: That's an important question. Today’s travelers rarely follow a single path to booking. They may use search engines, social media, review sites, travel platforms, influencer content, and AI-powered recommendation tools before making a reservation. Successful hospitality marketing requires multichannel campaigns, combined with strong SEO and GEO to stay visible across all the places where travelers make and act on choices. The fragmented journey is a key reason why Orange 142 offers the full suite of hospitality marketing services.
Q: How can we improve occupancy during slower seasons?
A: Seasonal promotions, targeted audience campaigns, package marketing, remarketing, and geographic targeting can help drive demand during shoulder seasons and slower periods. Orange 142 develops campaigns designed to keep properties visible when travelers are actively planning future trips.
Q: How do we know which marketing efforts are driving bookings?
A: Measurement is critical in hospitality marketing. Orange 142 provides reporting and attribution strategies that help connect marketing activity to bookings, revenue, engagement, and other business outcomes, giving hospitality brands a clearer view of performance.
Q: How can our property appear in AI-generated travel recommendations?
A: AI tools are increasingly influencing travel decisions, but they need very specific content types and structure in order to recommend a property. Orange 142 helps hospitality brands improve their visibility through GEO, SEO, structured content, entity optimization, and content strategies that make it easier for AI platforms to understand and recommend a property.
Q: Is social media still important for hotels and resorts?
A: Yes. Social media continues to influence travel inspiration, destination research, and booking decisions. It also plays an important role in showcasing property experiences, promoting special offers, supporting influencer campaigns, and staying connected with past and prospective guests.
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Orange 142
716 Congress Avenue
Suite 200
Austin TX, 78701
info@orange142.com