BRENT MANNING
DIRECT DEMAND FOR HOSPITALITY AND DESTINATIONS

Hospitality and tourism SEO + AI search growth

Help your best guests find you first.

I help boutique hotels, wellness resorts and destination organizations capture more valuable demand from search and AI discovery.

The work shows where travellers and planners choose someone else, improves the pages they discover and gives them a clearer route to book, enquire or reach a local business.

Former Head of SEO at Expedia ANZ 20 years in search 40%+ organic traffic recovery at Expedia ANZ
  • 01Commercial search demand
  • 02AI discovery
  • 03High intent pages
  • 04Direct action and measurement

Search works differently across rooms, programmes and destinations.

Each niche has its own search behaviour, commercial priorities and route to action. Choose the page that matches your organization.

Independent accommodation surrounded by native landscape with a pool and mountain backdrop

Boutique hotels

Win more valuable direct bookings before an OTA takes the reservation.

Your hotel should compete for destination, experience, room and occasion searches. The right pages and booking path then help a guest choose you directly.

  • Stays of several nights
  • Premium rooms and packages
  • Qualified group enquiries
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A group wellness practice on the beach with the mountains of Puerto Vallarta beyond

Wellness resorts

Turn programme discovery into premium stays and qualified retreat enquiries.

A wellness guest may search by outcome, programme, practitioner, destination or group need. Clearer offers make the resort easier to discover, understand and act on without flattening it into generic hotel copy.

  • Premium wellness programmes
  • Private retreats and groups
  • Longer direct stays
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Destination organizations

Move travel discovery from the official destination site into local businesses.

Destination teams compete with publishers, OTAs and other places during active trip planning. Useful answers give visitors a clearer route into local hotels, venues, attractions and experiences.

  • Partner referrals
  • Planner and event enquiries
  • Need period visibility
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Visibility only matters when someone takes the next step.

A ranking can start the journey. The landing page, offer, booking path and follow up decide whether the demand becomes useful to the business.

  • Searches beyond your brand name reveal where new demand begins.
  • Accurate, specific information helps search and AI systems understand the offer.
  • Landing pages answer the questions that hold up a booking or enquiry.
  • Direct calls to action match the visitor’s stage and intent.
  • Referral paths send destination visitors into suitable local businesses.
  • Reporting connects discovery with booking starts, enquiries and partner activity.

Follow demand from the first search to the commercial action.

The same four stages guide every engagement. The searches, pages and measures change with the niche.

01

Find where demand is going

The review traces searches connected to the stays, programmes, groups and visitor activity you value, then identifies who appears first.

02

Choose the gaps worth fixing

Search volume alone does not set the priority. Booking value, relevance, timing, inventory and the chance of winning do.

03

Improve discovery and decisions

Stronger search and AI visibility leads people to the pages they need to compare options and choose with confidence.

04

Connect visibility to direct action

The journey continues into a booking engine, qualified enquiry or local business. Reporting follows the actions closest to commercial value.

Experience from inside the travel marketplace

Search experience from inside Expedia.

At Expedia ANZ, I helped recover more than 40% of organic traffic and grow it until organic became the region’s number one revenue channel. The work connected hotel partners, destination pages, public relations and tourism relationships.

That experience now helps official websites compete for the demand that marketplaces, publishers and established alternatives capture first.

20
years working in search
40%+
organic traffic recovered at Expedia ANZ
#1
revenue channel achieved through organic search
Previous work includes
ExpediaHyattOvoloCrystalbrookNaumiLonely PlanetSydney Airport
Brent Manning at Google headquarters

Brent Manning

Twenty years in search has covered travel, hospitality, ecommerce and AI discovery.

The focus is the point where a traveller starts searching and decides which property, destination or platform deserves the next click. That means working across SEO, AI visibility, landing pages, direct booking journeys and measurement.

Outside work, I’m usually paddleboarding around Puerto Vallarta, walking with my pug or taking out search algorithm frustrations on the Muay Thai pads.

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Start with one valuable demand gap

Request a Direct Demand Review.

Share which guests, programmes, groups or visitor markets matter most. The initial review will focus on that priority.

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