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Leisure, travel & tourism research company

Harness market insights to drive innovation in leisure, travel & tourism markets

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Specialist travel & leisure market intelligence

In a sector that has been hit hard by global events and economic challenges, market and consumer-centric insight are key to unlocking the travel and leisure industry’s most compelling propositions and innovations. Gaining share in such a competitive sector is only possible by winning consumer attention and discretionary spend.

Our insights, trend analysis and modelling processes dig deep into customer behaviour and preferences, providing you with actionable data that helps your innovation, positioning and change-management truly take flight. No matter your sector, we can chart you a course to sustainable growth.

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Our global retail research specialisms

From shifting travel patterns to evolving guest expectations, we help tourism and leisure businesses understand and adapt to changing consumer behaviors while creating memorable experiences.

Segment your audience to discover underrepresented groups and create offerings to win them over.

Investigate customer needs to innovate beyond the obvious and develop offerings that strike a chord with your audience.

Our customer insights help you communicate with clarity and sincerity to create messages that truly resonate.

Enhancing a traveller-first strategy

The importance of customer & market research in the travel, tourism & leisure industries

Understanding traveller preferences, emerging trends, and market dynamics is essential for tailoring experiences, optimising operations, and attracting a loyal customer base.

Stay ahead of emerging trends, like sustainable and solo travel, or experiential tourism. By understanding changing preferences, you can modify your services to meet customers’ evolving needs.

Remain compliant and identify opportunities to innovate your business models in ways that align with regulatory requirements.

Improve efficiency and negotiate better deals with suppliers by locating areas where costs can be reduced and operations streamlined.

Identify target market segments that prioritise sustainability and environmental responsibility and tailor your products and services to meet these demands.

Tailored solutions for diverse travel, tourism, and leisure businesses

No matter your guest, customer or traveller type, we can help you optimize your operations, enhance customer experiences, and capitalise on the latest trends.

Hospitality

Keep abreast of the latest trends in the hospitality market, understand evolving guest preferences, and optimise your operations to deliver exceptional experiences.

Travel companies

Harness the power of data-driven insights to optimise your travel packages, personalise experiences, and identify emerging destinations, ensuring your business stays ahead of the curve.

Transportation services

Leverage in-depth customer insights to optimise your route planning, improve service quality, and ensure a seamless and satisfying passenger experience.

Attractions and entertainment

Create immersive experiences, streamline operations, and drive revenue by tailoring offerings to specific audience segments.

Travel technology companies

Improve booking platforms, enhance customers’ travel experiences, and predict future trends to ensure a competitive edge in the ever-evolving travel landscape.

Leisure activities

Better understand consumer preferences for experiences and destinations, and refine your product offerings to create unforgettable experiences.

Why choose STRAT7 for your travel, tourism and leisure market research?

A global tech-enabled strategy, insights and analytics agency

Global reach, regional presence

Our global reach and local market research methods keep us attuned to regional dynamics, and ensure we’re connected in meaningful, culturally relevant ways.

Demonstrated history of success

From TUI, to British Airways and P&O Cruises, we know what it means to support the World’s biggest travel and leisure brands with their most ambitious projects.

End-to-end strategy

Flexible and collaborative

We can plug & play to give instant access to specific global audiences, or join for the long haul participating from initial scripting through to insights management.

Helping travel & leisure companies worldwide

Understanding customers, market, competition & potential

Navigate the dynamic travel and leisure landscape with our expert insights. Understand the evolving preferences of global travellers, identify emerging trends, and optimise your offerings to deliver exceptional experiences.

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Our research methodologies

Capturing strategic insights

Ethnographic research

Immersing our research in your customers’ lived experiences means we can understand their behaviours, affinities and shifting attitudes on a truly personal level.

Bespoke qualitative and quantitative research

We synthesise existing data to understand broader market dynamics, emerging trends, and competitive landscape before we begin primary data collection.

Unstructured data synthesis​

Powered by proprietary machine learning, NLP and generative AI, our toolkit makes identifying trends and extracting valuable insights from unstructured data effortless.

Semiotics

Decode the differing cultural meanings behind signs and sentiments and develop marketing campaigns that resonate deeply with customers around the world.

Customer and user experience analysis​

Through sentiment analysis, social listening and AI-powered research, our analysts build up a comprehensive picture of your UX from a customer’s perspective.

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FAQs

What is travel & tourism market research?
Travel and tourism market research is about collecting, analysing, and interpreting data around the travel and tourism industries. It involves studying consumer behaviour, market trends, industry performance, and competitive landscapes to gain insights that inform business decisions.
Leisure market research is a specific type of market research that focuses on the leisure industry, which encompasses activities and services that people engage in for enjoyment, relaxation, or pleasure. It involves studying consumer preferences, behaviours, and trends related to leisure activities and products.
With a range of sources and tools at our fingertips, we can gather and analyse a diverse and richer data set that better answers the business questions of companies in the travel and tourism industries. We use a variety of AI-driven techniques to analyse unstructured data at scale, including: topic modelling, emotion detection, semiotics at scale and proprietary large language models. These allow us to create a clear and comprehensive picture of consumer opinions, developing trends and the competitive landscape of your industry.
Travel and tourism companies are highly sensitive to external factors and global instability – more so than companies in many other industries. Fluctuating exchange rates, economic downturns, fuel costs, global instability and natural disasters can all have devastating impacts on a travel and tourism company’s operations.
We employ a diverse range of methodologies for our technology market research, pairing traditional methods like surveys, questionnaires, interviews and insight communities with advanced methodologies like AI-powered analytics, large-scale data scraping, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics.
We can work with companies from any area of the travel, tourism and leisure industries, and have helped brands from all regions of the world and industry sectors. Past clients include TUI, Expedia, P&O Cruises, PureGym, British Airways and Skyscanner.

Our unique approach to market insights in the travel and tourism sectors is characterised by a data-driven, customer-centric, and future-focused perspective.

We combine advanced analytics with deep industry expertise to deliver actionable insights that help our clients navigate the complexities of the travel and tourism industry.

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