Matt G Davison

Matt is a travel entrepreneur with over a decade of experience across digital marketing, operations, and asset investment. His ventures include founding the agency Travel Tractions, successfully buying and selling multiple travel websites, and owning a boutique hotel in his home base of Cape Town. His writing focuses on the intersection of data-driven marketing and real-world business growth in the tourism sector.

Matt G Davison
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7 Best Hotel Website Designs & Examples

In the ever-evolving landscape of web design, the top trending hotel websites of 2024 are setting new benchmarks in user experience, creativity, and functionality. These websites are not just online brochures; they are immersive digital experiences that reflect the ethos and personality of the hotels they represent.  In order to explore what works and what […]

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66 Best Tourism Industry Events & Travel Conferences 2025/26

Looking for the top travel conferences 2025 has to offer? If you’re working in the tourism industry and you haven’t booked a ticket to one of the many events, what are you waiting for? Not only are these events an excuse to get out of the office and network with like-minded people, but they’re also

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The Importance of Tourism in Any Country – Economy, Infrastructure & Business Opportunities (With Infographic)

Tourism is the act of traveling within your own country, or to an international destination, for either the purposes of business or pleasure. It has become a major source of income for a lot of countries, especially those with a young or developing economy. We’ve put together this resource on tourism and its importance in

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Pinterest for Travel Bloggers & Websites [434% growth in 3 months]

When done reading this guide you should know exactly how to drive traffic to your website with Pinterest. This was originally a guide (which has since been improved) given to an intern to assist in starting a Pinterest Travel Brand account which achieved 434.12% growth in 3 Months.       Why should you want to

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14 Top Travel Blog Platforms Reviewed – Which is the Best?

I make and work with a lot of people wanting to start travel websites, finding something versatile that was quick to deploy with minimal knowledge of code, was crucial. There are a few platforms where you can share maps, and travel stories easily. Some of them are specifically built just for travel bloggers which are

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How to Make Money from Travel Blogging

How do you make money travel blogging? Making money from travel blogging is not easy, but it’s extremely possible. There are a lot of travel bloggers out there that make really good money (like 5 figures good). The great thing is that there are tons of ways to do this. Just play to your strengths.

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The Best Link Building Tactics for the Tourism Industry

Some travel companies have a lot of trouble building quality links to their websites. Lots of websites resort to web2.0’s, comments, travel site links services, forums, blog networks or just plain paying for links. While these are ways to get links – they’re not ways to get good links, and they’re the exact same tactics

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200+ of the Best Stock Image and Photo Websites

Images are known to increase time on site, engagement, shares, repins, retweets and likes. They are super important, things just seem naked without them. And not in a good way. With people becoming more visual and the competition a lot stiffer, I needed to find stock image websites for every occasion. Why you should include images in

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Image Link SEO – You Can Get Hundreds of Links From Your Travel Photos ;)

We all need links to rank, but who likes getting links? It’s the pits… Pitching, writing, making, pitching, negotiating, waiting, pitching again (you’ve got to pitch 3 times or you not doing it right). Lucky for me we’re kinda good at that here at TravelTractions, but what if YOU could generate hundreds of links, on

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