The Performance Marketing Engine for Hotels

Hotel marketing
that never sleeps.

Journey Grow plans, builds, launches and optimises your Google and Meta campaigns around the clock, inside the ad accounts you already own. Faster execution, continuous optimisation and human control where it matters. It runs the campaigns. You run the hotel.

Official partners

  • Meta
  • Google
K+
Campaigns run
M+
Optimisations made
£M+
Ad spend managed
:1
Average ROAS

Hotel marketing shouldn’t wait for next month’s report or next quarter’s campaign. Tell Grow the goal: fill midweek in February. It writes the brief, recommends the spend, builds the ads from your brand and gets them live. Then it keeps working: more budget to what’s performing, less to what isn’t, tired creative spotted and opportunities acted on while there’s still time to make a difference.

A guest jumping onto a freshly made hotel bed in a sunlit room

How did we do this weekend?

Journey

Journey

04:31

Revenue £18.4k at 16x ROAS, up 22% on last weekend. I’d increase spend by 20%. Want me to?

Action available:

ApproveEdit

From rooms that perish tonight. To live by lunch.

The old way spots an empty midweek on Friday, briefs it Monday and goes live the week after. Grow sees it first and has moved before anyone's at a desk. By 9am the change is made, not proposed. Tomorrow is too late to sell tonight's room.

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Activity log

01:14

Document

Paused 2 fatigued adsets

Auto

03:02

Sparkles

Shifted £400 to the winning adset

Auto

06:45

Google

Cleaned 12 negative keywords on PMax

Auto

08:00

Slack

Morning brief landed in Slack

Slack

09:12

EM

You approved one call

You

09:14

Document

4 new ads live across Meta and Google

Auto

From the weekly call. To seeing it as it happens.

The weekly call exists because an agency needs seven days to work out what happened. Grow shows you as it happens: every campaign, every pound, every move since you last looked. Seven days is a long time not to know.

Your ads are worth more than this.

Set your monthly spend and what it returns today. See the extra direct revenue Grow would find, worked out in front of you, not in a report you wait for.

One sentence in.
A live campaign out.

Type the goal. Grow turns it into a brief, a plan with the spend stated up front, and creative held to your brand rules.

Plan

It reads the whole picture

Your account, your calendar, the market

Composer box with the goal typed in: Sell more Sunday stays to couples this month.

Create

Your brand, your rules

Ads assembled from your library, never invented

A Meta carousel ad built from the hotel's own photo and brand, headed The best way to unwind, with Save as template and Launch campaign buttons.

Launch

Live by lunch

Published to Meta and Google. No upload

Approval card: a midweek spa break campaign of six ads on Meta and Google, £1,200 over 14 days, expected ROAS 24:1, with Approve and Edit buttons.
Hotel bedroom with a grey headboard and framed prints
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky, Villa Resorts
Smiling woman with long blonde hair
Family walking down a garden path at Beaverbrook
Pink bougainvillea over a stone terrace, Middle Eight
Dark hotel bedroom with a tufted headboard, The Elms
Modern hotel facade with timber balconies, Tulah
Massage treatment at Calcot Manor & Spa
Poolside loungers at a Signet hotel
Smiling man with glasses in a black jumper
Poolside loungers at a Signet hotel
Smiling woman working on a laptop
Modern hotel facade with timber balconies, Tulah
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Hotel bedroom with a grey headboard and framed prints
Woman with dark hair smiling in soft light
Guests relaxing by an outdoor pool
Family walking down a garden path at Beaverbrook
Dark hotel bedroom with a tufted headboard, The Elms
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Family walking down a garden path at Beaverbrook
Lake at sunset with lodges on the shore, The Lakes by yoo
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest, Wildhive
Pink bougainvillea over a stone terrace, Middle Eight
Guests relaxing by an outdoor pool
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Modern hotel facade with timber balconies, Tulah
Family walking down a garden path at Beaverbrook
Man with glasses and a beard looking to the side
Dark hotel bedroom with a tufted headboard, The Elms
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Woman meditating in long grass in a forest
Infinity pool meeting the sea under a cloudy sky
Mother and daughter on a sea-view balcony
Arrow pointer iconDirect Intelligence

500K+ campaigns. 5M+ optimisations. All that learning, now working for you.

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Ask Journey

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Direct Intelligence is the engine inside Grow. It holds every hotel campaign Journey has run, and the judgement of the people who ran them, written into rules. So it knows a soft midweek before it arrives, and when to hold the rate rather than chase the click. Google and Meta see your clicks. Direct Intelligence sees your hotel.

People taught it
everything it knows.

Journey's marketers built hotel campaigns by hand for fifteen years. Direct Intelligence learned from every one of them, and the same team supports Grow every day.

One Engine. Every lesson inside it.

Hundreds of Journey people, thousands of hotel campaigns. Brand, creative, strategy, digital, performance. Direct Intelligence learned from all five.

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Lydia Reed, Account Director at Journey, listening in a meeting with a pencil in hand

Lydia Reed

Account Director at Journey

Billy Mohan, Digital Director at Journey, working at a laptop
"We taught it how we build campaigns so we could get back to deciding what to build. The judgement is still ours."

Billy Mohan

Digital Director at Journey

Grow, against
the alternatives.

A retainer that's too slow, a team that's too thin, or a tool that doesn't know a hotel. Grow was built because none of them was good enough.

Journey Grow
Traditional Agency
In-house
Generic ad tech
Idea to live
Minutes
2 to 4 weeks
1 to 2 weeks
Minutes, then you finish it
Optimisation
Every hour, 24/7
Weekly, office hours
When someone's free
Automated, blind to the hotel
Reporting
Live, one screen
Monthly deck
Spreadsheet
Dashboard of clicks
Campaigns
Unlimited
A few a quarter
One at a time
Unlimited, unbranded
Knows hotels
15 years, thousands of them
Rarely
One property
No
Creative
Your brand, every time
Studio quality, slowly
Depends on the team
Looks like AI
Learns from
Every campaign it runs
Your account
Your account
Nothing
Cost
Per property
Retainer, full or empty
Salaries
Per seat

One product.
Three ways to run it.

Every tier gets the whole product and the intelligence inside it. What changes is how much of the team that built it sits alongside you.

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Self Serve

You run it.

Connect your ad accounts, upload your assets, and Grow builds from them. For the marketer who wants to act on a Tuesday without briefing anyone.

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Guided

You run it. We check the aim.

Journey sets up your account, strategy and KPIs in month one, then a monthly call that reviews what happened and says what to do next.

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Managed

The people who built it run it.

Journey owns strategy, creative and the account, with a live view of everything and a named contact.

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Search and Performance Max managed from one place. Budgets, keywords and creative optimised through the night.

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Campaigns planned, assembled and published to Meta from the platform. No export, no upload, every change recorded.

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Journey's booking engine, connected out of the box. Cost per booking read from the transaction itself, not modelled.

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Coming Soon

Revenue management decisions visible to campaign logic, so budget follows the need period, not the calendar.

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Coming Soon

Your guest data read into audiences. Past guests get one campaign, lapsed guests another, and guests already booked stop seeing the ad.

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Rate and availability read from your property system, so campaigns respond to what's actually on sale.

See your hotel theway a guest does.

The audit searches Google for your hotel by name, by town, by county and across the country, for rooms, dining and spa. Every search runs from a clean session, so you see what a guest sees, not what Google shows you.

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  1. Where your ads show

    Every search, from your name out to the whole country. At the top, on page one, or not showing.

  2. Where people find you

    What a guest sees with ads and without them. Where you pay to appear, and where Google ranks you for free.

  3. Who shows up before you

    The sites that take the top spots on your searches, and how often they do.

  4. Your Google Hotels listing

    Your rate against everyone else’s for the same night, and who pays to appear above you.

Run your free audit

FAQ

The questions hotels ask first. If yours isn't here, ask it when you request the audit.

It runs the campaigns. You run the hotel.

Fifteen years of Journey's hotel marketing, running your campaigns around the clock inside your own ad accounts. Never sleeps. Never forgets.