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Food Tourism — Market Signals: March 2020

Joe Martin
7 min readApr 28, 2020

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Our data comes from a range of tour companies in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, North America, and a substantial source set from the United States. This article is based on our observations of data from March 2020. Our advice comes from 10+ years of tourism industry expertise in marketing, product development, and reservation systems.

Food tour companies should focus on email capture

We have not yet arrived at a point where people feel comfortable spending money — anywhere in the world. As we continue to monitor tour markets across the globe, this advice may change. Make sure you subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most up-to-date information.

What the data shows

That website traffic has dropped dramatically. That part is correct. BUT, when we look at through a glass-half-full perspective — we see that people are still going to your website.

You can learn more about what we found in The Data near the end of this article.

Session data showing a significant decline in the number of visitors on this major tourism website.

It may only be 12% of your original traffic in some cases, but that’s still potential customers…

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Joe Martin
Joe Martin

Written by Joe Martin

Entrepreneur, author, and TEDx Speaker who believes real world interactions are more valuable than digital ones.

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