Travel marketing is what we do best, and we actually deliver.
Travel Tractions was born from a simple need: a better SEO and marketing service for travel businesses, run by people who can actually help them grow. Not a generic agency. Not a flaky freelancer. A travel-first team that stands behind the work.
Founder, travel tractions
Tired of paying for other people's mistakes.
Matt spent years as a travel marketer and consultant, and kept hitting the same wall. No service explained exactly what they did and then delivered it. Marketplaces were tiresome. Freelancers went quiet. Every wrong hire was an expensive lesson.
So Travel Tractions was built to be the service he wanted as a client: travel first, plain about what we do, and honest about what we cannot. Today we believe we are one of the best travel SEO and marketing teams in the world, and we are still building out every part of the marketing process under one roof.
You will never get sold something we do not know how to do. We want you to get a real return on your marketing, and if we cannot do that, we’ll be honest with you from the start.
A travel marketing team that actually lives it.
We are not marketers who happen to have travel clients. We are travellers first. Between us we have house-sat across continents, relocated for the work, and spent years on the road. We have run into the same problems travel businesses face, and we built the fixes.
Matt Davison
Founder, Marketing Strategy
In travel since 2009, founded Travel Tractions in 2018. Spent 16 years travelling the world before building the team that works it.
Brishan
Head of Strategy
Sets the plan behind every campaign. Right now he is in Thailand, learning Muay Thai and playing football.
Dakota
Social & On-camera
Hosts shorts, reels and on-camera content. From San Francisco, then travelled the world and relocated to work with us.
Lwazi
Senior SEM Manager
Runs paid search end-to-end, so budget goes to the clicks that turn into bookings. Off the clock: hiking, painting, and saving for Japan and the rest of Asia.
Dineo
Content Manager
Owns the content calendar and the destination guides, from Cape Town to Mexico, that rank and read well.
Daillyn
Video Editing & Production
Edits every video to a tight, watchable finish. Always plotting his next trip somewhere new.
Kelly
Agency Enablement Lead
Keeps clients and the team moving, so every project ships on time. A professional house-sitter who has used it to explore the world.
OPEN ROLE
Short-form video editor
Remote
You cut fast, watch a lot of shorts and reels for travel brands, and you think in hooks, pace and payoff.
OPEN ROLE
Senior PPC strategist
Remote
You build solid search that does not waste budget, and you can prove the return. Travel experience is a plus.
A fully remote team, with roots in Cape Town and a presence in San Francisco.
No office to commute to, no time zone we cannot cover. Our roots are in Cape Town and we have a presence in San Francisco, and from those two cities we work with travel brands all over the world.
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town
Most of our day-to-day delivery runs from Cape Town. Creative, resourceful and efficient, set between the Atlantic and Table Mountain.
UNITED STATES
San Francisco
Our team here keeps us close to the tech and Al search shifts that decide who gets found. High energy, data first, always testing what is next.
Find out if we can actually help you.
Interested in a free 20 minute audit? We’ll show you where your paid budget is being wasted, no pitch either way.
P.S. The audit is genuinely free. Worst case, you walk away with a $200 deliverable and three
quick wins. Best case, we save you six figures in OTA fees this year.
We are hiring travel-obsessed people.
If you love travel and do great work, we want to hear from you.
Open roles right now:
Paid Media Strategist
Remote
Mid-Level Developer
Remote
Video Editor
Remote