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ROAS from Meta conversion campaigns for Camp Bestival Dorset
Destination
Mean more. Be worth the journey.
Destinations compete for more than attention.
A festival weekend, a family day out, a holiday, a cultural experience or a once-in-a-lifetime trip each asks someone to choose where to spend their time, money and anticipation, often months before they experience what they’re buying.
At AgencyUK, we combine brand, communications, web and tech to help destinations become more distinctive, create demand and turn interest into visits, bookings and ticket sales.
Across festivals, visitor attractions, tourism, travel and leisure, we connect the promise people discover with the experience they eventually have, building the excitement that gets people there.
Our destination impact
0k
Clicks to Camp Bestival through Spotify alone
0.61%
Click-through rate from Spotify activity
Why is the destination sector different?
Destinations are experienced twice: first in people’s imagination, then in real life.
People are buying a feeling they can’t test in advance, so reviews, photos, recommendations and the brand itself do the work that a product trial would do in other sectors.
The experience then has to live up to the promise. A visit that falls short loses more than a return booking, because it shapes what people tell everyone else.
Brand
Mean more through meaningful difference.
The best destinations give people something they can’t get somewhere else.
We uncover what makes an experience meaningfully different and turn it into a distinctive proposition and brand, giving people a compelling reason to choose one festival, attraction or destination over another.
For Longleat and Boomtown, that meant connecting what makes each experience special with what audiences value.
Strategy
Positioning
Proposition
Identity
Experience
Communications
Mean more to more people.
People need a reason to go before they need a ticket.
We combine audience intelligence, commercial creativity and media to build awareness, create anticipation and convert interest into bookings and ticket sales.
For Camp Bestival, research identified the barriers stopping parents from considering a festival. We turned those insights into creative, social proof and an integrated media strategy that changed perceptions and sold tickets.
Campaign Planning
Creative
Media
Social
Activation
Web
Mean more through better experiences.
The experience shouldn’t become difficult when someone decides to book it.
We create digital experiences around the questions people need answered and the actions they need to take, making destinations easier to discover, explore, compare and book.
Our work for Boomtown Fair and Longleat includes brand, video, UX and web, connecting what people see of the brand with the digital journey they take before they arrive.
UX
Development
SEO
Content
Booking Journeys
CRO
Tech
Mean more by learning faster.
Every search, click, booking and visit creates intelligence.
We use AI and data to understand audiences, interrogate campaign and digital performance and identify what’s driving response, helping destinations continually improve targeting, creative, media and customer journeys.
Audience segmentation, performance intelligence, personalised digital experiences and AI-powered discovery all help turn more visitor behaviour into better decisions.
AI
Audience Intelligence
Performance
Personalisation
Automation
Agents
One destination at every touchpoint.
The journey starts long before people arrive. It runs through search and social, video, reviews and recommendations, websites, booking and ticketing, email and apps, signage and the experience itself, then the photos, memories and stories people share afterwards.
People don’t separate destination marketing from the destination. It all contributes to what they expect and, ultimately, what they remember. We connect brand, communications, digital and technology so the promise that creates anticipation is reinforced by the booking experience and kept when people arrive, making the whole experience worth sharing.
The strongest destination brands turn visitors into people who want to come back, and who tell everyone else about it.
Search
Social
Video
Influencers
Reviews
Paid Media
Website
Booking
Ticketing
Email
Apps
Signage
On-site Experience
CRM
Our destination work.
Build the destination before they arrive.
Great destination marketing creates an experience in people’s minds, because people buy destinations before they experience them.
They buy the promise of the weekend, the excitement of the festival, the family memory, the escape and the story they’ll be able to tell afterwards.
That makes brand particularly important.
We help destinations understand the experience audiences value most, identify what makes it different and build a proposition capable of creating desire long before someone arrives.
For Longleat, that meant helping articulate the business through a clearer brand proposition. For Boomtown, it meant using audience and sales data to help develop the proposition around an experience that had evolved far beyond a conventional music festival.
Turn audience insight into ticket sales.
Destination decisions are emotional, but destination marketing still needs to be accountable.
We use research, audience data, search behaviour and campaign response to understand who is most likely to visit, what motivates them, what stands in their way and which messages are best placed to change their mind.
That intelligence feeds directly into creative, media and the digital journey. For Boomtown, our remit included analysing fanbase and sales information, audience profiling and segmentation, customer journey mapping, performance media and web interface design.
Camp Bestival
462% ROAS, by turning family concerns into reasons to go.
Camp Bestival is the UK’s largest festival designed for families, but our research identified a significant barrier: parents could associate festivals with being noisy, dirty and unsuitable for young children.
We turned those concerns into the communications strategy.
Creative showed the festival from a child’s point of view, while testimonials and authentic attendee experiences provided the social proof parents needed. An integrated media plan spanning digital and offline channels then built awareness and converted demand into ticket sales.
The result included 462% ROAS for the Dorset festival and 396% across Meta conversion activity overall, alongside 25,600 clicks from Spotify.
- ROAS for the Dorset festival 462%
- ROAS across Meta conversion activity 396%
- Clicks from Spotify 25,600
Our destination experience
Our experience spans festivals, attractions, tourism, travel and leisure.
Members of our team have also worked with Visit Norway, Hurtigruten, Cathay Pacific, Welcome to Yorkshire, The Dorchester Collection, The Sloane Club and Levy & Compass Leisure.
Across brand strategy, proposition development, campaigns, media, audience intelligence, websites, digital experiences and performance marketing, we’ve helped destinations give people more reasons to go.
Frequently asked questions
How do you sell more tickets for a festival or attraction?
Effective festival marketing and attraction marketing starts by understanding what will make people choose your experience, and what might stop them.
We use audience insight to identify those motivations and barriers, then connect campaign planning, creative, media and digital experiences to move people from interest to booking. That includes building demand as well as making it easier to convert when people are ready.
For Camp Bestival, our work delivered 462% ROAS. The focus isn’t simply on selling tickets more efficiently on creating enough desire and confidence for more people to decide the experience is worth having.
How do you overcome the reasons people don't visit?
We start by finding out what’s actually getting in the way.
For Camp Bestival, research helped uncover the concerns families had about attending, giving us a clearer understanding of the barriers behind the booking decision. Those insights can then shape the proposition, messaging, creative and customer journey.
Some barriers are practical. Others are about perception, confidence or whether the experience feels right for someone like you. Effective destination marketing needs to address those concerns rather than simply showing people more reasons to visit.
Understanding why people say no can be just as valuable as understanding why others say yes.
Do you work with tourism organisations as well as attractions?
Yes. As a tourism marketing agency, we can work with destinations and tourism organisations as well as festivals, attractions and individual visitor experiences.
The challenge for a destination marketing agency is often bigger than promoting one venue. It can involve creating a compelling reason to visit, bringing different experiences together and reaching audiences at different stages of planning and booking.
We use brand, communications, web and technology according to the challenge, connecting the destination proposition with the campaigns and experiences that bring it to market. The aim is to turn interest in a place into visits and commercial value.
How do you improve the visitor experience, not just the marketing?
The visitor experience starts before someone reaches the entrance. Discovery, research, booking, travel information and pre-visit communications all influence how people feel about a destination.
We look across that wider journey to identify where brand, content, website design and technology can make the experience clearer and easier. After the visit, communications can also help strengthen the relationship and encourage recommendation or return visits.
Marketing creates expectations. The experience needs to live up to them. Connecting the two helps turn a successful campaign into a stronger overall relationship with the visitor.
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