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Insight Destination Marketing Services

Insight Destination Marketing Services is an international tourism marketing agency, or as we prefer to call it, our boutique tourism workshop. Being the first and only full-service tourism marketing agency in Hungary, with over 20 years of industry experience, we provide strategic consultancy and integrated tourism marketing solutions to our hotel and destination clients. We are active in 11 European markets catering our partners with comprehensive services from strategic planning to media relations and campaign execution.

About us

In 2012 we established Insight Destination Marketing Services as we felt there was a lack of agencies that support destinations and tourism businesses in developing domestic and international marketing strategies. Therefore, as dedicated and passionate international tourism marketing specialists, it is our purpose to help our tourism service provider partners succeed in market presence, guest acquisition, and igniting business growth. 

Both of us spent significant years at the Central European office of Österreich Werbung, where we had the chance to participate in positioning and building Austria as one of the world's top destination brands, considered globally as a role model and success story in destination marketing.

Gaining years of experience on client side and having hotel management backgrounds makes us adept at tackling today's challenges in tourism marketing. Both of us are passionate travelers in our private life, and even when traveling, we easily find ourselves engaged in professional brainstorming. When we are just ‘guests’ ourselves, we cannot help but see what solutions work and what could be improved. We combine these two perspectives in every consultation and campaign implementation, striving to understand and meet our clients' needs to help them achieve their goals.

Our services

The backbone of our services is professional consultation and advice. We believe in strategic planning as the key success of every effective campaign. We use the entire toolkit of tourism marketing, and given the rise of digital platforms, we focus particularly on PPC campaign planning: uniquely in Hungary, we work with an educated team of tourism PPC specialists. Upon client request we complement our services with inhouse creative production and guidance.

Market-specific Strategic Consultancy

Involving strategic consultancy sessions in the process as early as possible is a crucial criteria for the campaign to succeed. This lays the groundwork for the actual communication planning, messaging matrix development and content creation. We collaboratively understand the context of each market, defining the communication channels and messaging that fit our target audience taking into consideration local characteristics such as seasonal trends, customer habits or local price ranges. Product development and positioning, marketing budget allocation and media mix planning is also a large part of our competencies.

PPC Campaign Management

Our strength lies in the full coordination of CPC-based campaign management on a solid strategy footing. Even low-budget CPC campaigns run on platforms such as GoogleAds, Google Hotel Ads, Facebook, Instagram, Bing, or Seznam can achieve effective results by boosting direct bookings and maximizing profits. What makes us unique among other PPC agencies is that our Google and Facebook certified PPC specialists are specifically educated in tourism marketing, possessing both generic expertise and sector-relevant knowledge. We not only set up campaigns tailored to your goals and budget in multiple languages but also continuously monitor and tweak them to get more leads and sales.

Meta Search CPC Campaign Management

In recent years, meta-search engines and online travel agencies (OTAs) have become prominent compared to direct booking. As meta-search is now an integral part of travelers' booking process, we take advantage of the indispensable advertising potential of this channel. With a solid advertising strategy, we use meta-search as a click-based marketing platform to increase direct bookings.

Social Media Management

By managing Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, and Youtube pages we push your social media presence to the next level. Our key services are content creation, advertising, and community management. If needed, we set up local FB pages in the required destination market thus allowing the sending market to build a more effective local follower base. Needless to say that when managing any SM campaign, we always consider the characteristics of the target audience, specific customers’ needs, peak travel periods and other factors that make the content engaging for them.

Creative Assets Production

We produce creative assets such as static or video content on any budget according to client needs. Our competencies include copywriting, graphic design, organizing photo sessions and budget-friendly mini-shootings. If required, we also provide creative inputs for ongoing production, considering the characteristics of the destination/target audience and consulting with our clients’ production partner in charge.

Tourism Translation and Copywriting

As tourism translation is a highly specific translation we always opt for native tourism translators who are educated on sector vocabulary. Professionals in this field are skilled in adapting the original text to their native language that also aligns with the target culture. Choosing the right wording, knowing the distinctive needs of the target country including cultural differences is paramount when it comes to tourism translation. It is also important to sound smooth and natural - using literal translations can be alienating and counterproductive despite our investments in clicks.

Markets

Mindset, mentality and preferences vary for every culture even in Europe. Understanding and addressing different types of customers are essential in marketing communication, especially when it comes to guests in tourism marketing. What works in Italy may not work in Serbia, for example. A proper campaign launch requires comprehensive insights. Therefore, we take out the guesswork and plan our clients' market presence accordingly.

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Our philosophy

Our company name is also our philosophy, a mindset that distincts us and has shaped our own professional development over nearly 20 years spent in the sector. We believe in the power of insights and understanding; our clients are not just our customers but our partners with whom we work as one team. We understand that guests look not only for a hotel room but also discovery and experience. In our daily work we seek the intersection of consumer needs and marketing business thinking, offering tailored solutions that lay the foundation for long-term, good fit partnerships.

Our team

The two of us founded Insight, with Dorka joining our permanent team in 2023, bringing youthful vigor and creative thinking to our daily operations. Our operative work is supported by the dynamically expanding circle of our international experts. Continuous consultation and close collaboration with them enable us to offer up-to-date solutions to our clients. We are proud to be a small but dynamic team, believing that our strength lies in smooth teamwork. We do not strive for corporate scale - we believe that with our small, well-coordinated team, we can provide truly personalized solutions to each of our clients. We are committed to exceed our partners' expectations and ensure their satisfaction every day. 

Róbert Elvin

alapító
elvin@insight-dms.com

Dalma Mester

társ-alapító, CEO
mester@insight-dms.com

Dorottya Babcsán

marketing manager
babcsan@insight-dms.com

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