For 30 years, Clockwork Marketing has been colouring travel dreams and boosting bookings for hotels and hospitality businesses throughout the UK. In July 2022 we celebrated this milestone anniversary with a 30th birthday party at Anran, Devon with clients, friends and family; and released a new report on the future of hospitality - "Tomorrow's Travellers: Hospitality Trends for 2042".
We commissioned the "Tomorrow's Travellers" report with futurist, Will Higham, exploring what hospitality will look like over the next decades and how the hospitality sector will need to adapt to new guests' needs and wants.
'92 to '22 and beyond
During the last 30 years, technology has accelerated the pace of change like nothing we have seen before. But with this revolution has come great opportunity for hospitality businesses to understand and build lasting relationships with guests using data-driven insights.
The growth of Clockwork has paralleled this growth in data-driven, evaluation-based marketing. But we aren't just about data; our creative marketing campaigns appeal to guests’ emotional and impulsive desires and their need for travel. While guests' needs and wants may change alongside technology, the fundamental desire to explore will remain, along with the need for great customer experience.
Hospitality in a changing world
Clockwork’s marketing support to the tourism industry throughout the UK has been a constant as a full service marketing agency. The company has recently launched GuestNet, taking its 30 years of marketing knowledge online, for smaller hospitality businesses to learn marketing through a series of bitesize videos and guided support.
Clockwork has always changed with the times. Now, people are concerned about the welfare of our planet in a way unseen before. Clare Bushy, managing director, Clockwork Marketing said:
"As we move into a new era, we must begin to think of hospitality differently, luxury and price alone will not entice tomorrow's guests. They will expect a reciprocation of their green values. Hotels, B&Bs, Self-catering properties need to evolve.
“Clockwork has taken a small step supporting the Devon Wildlife Trust, helping to preserve the wildlife and nature in our region. Looking beyond this to the future, the business wants to support regenerative tourism projects, enhancing communities and ecological health and encourage others to do the same.”
Available now - future trends report
Clockwork has commissioned futurist, William Higham, to explore future travel trends, guests' desires and expectations of the holiday experience in 2042 in its "Tommorrow's Travellers: Hospitality Trends for 2042" report.
Backed up with in-depth analysis of consumer and industry news reports, consumer polls, academic studies and analysed comments from experts in technology, science and economic change, the "Tomorrow's Travellers"' report identifies seven pioneering trends that will define the tourism sector over future decades including:
- Travel Easy
- Immerse Yourself
- Have it Your Way
- World of Wellbeing
- Here to Help
- Community Spirit
- Do the Right Thing
Download the report now, just fill the form in below to get access to future hospitality trends.