
Tourism Marketing Mastery
This show is for those who run a tourism based business and are looking for new ways to market that bring in consistent bookings but still maintain a healthy profit margin for their operation.
Inside each episode, learn from Erik Hatterscheidt, a former resort marketing manager and now owner of a global 7 figure tour business as he shares his biggest “A-ha moments” and marketing secrets with full transparency.
From marketing flops, to mindset, to big booking wins, Erik pulls you into his world and shares his personal journey to filling bookings using clever marketing ideas.
Latest episodes

Nov 26, 2019 • 6min
14. An Easy Way To Get Guests To Promote You For Free
Welcome to episode 14 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. Short podcast on what I learned in the restaurant market and how to apply it to destinations to get your guests to market for you.

Nov 20, 2019 • 17min
13. The Ugly Truth About Business And Personal Relationships
Welcome to episode 13 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. Ok, first off, despite my charming charisma, I’m the furthest from a relationship coach. BUT, I have found a couple of strategies that make running a business and a relationship easier, so I thought I’d share those with you.

Nov 11, 2019 • 16min
12. Increasing Your Prices Through Status and Story: A Proven Method
Welcome to episode 12 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. I love this weeks topic because it's one concept that doesn't cost you anything to implement but can have massive impact on your bottom line.
Over the last few years we've been able to dramatically increase prices and we haven't changed anything about the physical product or added services.
Yet we are close to double the price of our next closest competitor.
And the best part is that I feel like we're just getting started. To be honest, we could be doing a much better job of implementing this tourism marketing hack.
So listen in and then implement this right away in your operation and watch as your demand begins to increase.

Nov 4, 2019 • 14min
11. Want To Crush The Competition? Listen To This.
Welcome to episode 11 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. I really need to work on my intros. But aside from that, in this episode of Tourism Marketing Mastery I'm talking about what you need to do in your marketing so that the competition gives up trying to compete with you.
The secret: it involves fruit.

Oct 28, 2019 • 15min
10. Nobody Cares What You Think
Welcome to episode 10 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. There are so many people out there that stress over their marketing and what it should look like or be before it goes out. In this episode I'm running through why you don't need to stress, because your opinion doesn't matter.
*Note - The audio quality on this episode isn't great, but for the sake of content, I've decided to publish it anyway.

Oct 21, 2019 • 39min
9. Revolutionize Your Marketing By Starting A Movement
Welcome to episode 9 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. In this episode I'm going to to tell you how I tried to start a side business and failed, and then learned the 3 pieces you need to start a movement, applied them to this concept, which now has the largest social media following of all my accounts, and is growing the fastest.

Oct 14, 2019 • 17min
8. The Ultimate Guide To Making Friends And Ruling Your Kingdom
Welcome to episode 8 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. In this episode we talk about the stresses of leading a team, and why doing it in isolation leads to your slow and terrible death.

Oct 7, 2019 • 35min
7. Answered: Your Most Burning Questions About Where To Focus Your Marketing Budget.
Welcome to episode 7 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. A question I get all the time in the tourism industry is, "Where should we focus our resources?"
Which doesn't surprise me because there are 100's of things you CAN be doing, but which ones get you the most return? Also, how is it possible to have a masterplan when it seems like marketing changes daily.
In this episode I'll give you a system that you can use no matter what the current marketing trends are, as well as how we spend our current marketing budget in our resort.

Oct 2, 2019 • 18min
6. Marketing Myths That Held Me Back (Part 5 of 5)
Welcome to episode 6 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. This is part 5 of a mini series in which I share with you the 5 big myths that I believed about marketing that held back my growth for years in some cases.
In this fifth episode I'll talk about my inability to see how marketing could work for a remote resort when I looked at it through my 'traditional education' lens, and my big a-ha moment.

Sep 25, 2019 • 18min
5. Marketing Myths That Held Me Back (Part 4 of 5)
Welcome to episode 5 of Tourism Marketing Mastery. This is part 4 of a mini series in which I share with you the 5 big myths that I believed about marketing that held back my growth for years in some cases. In this fourth episode I share a couple of secrets around what I did when I couldn't afford marketing.