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Episode 01Tourism boardCentral AmericaStyle tested, epic scenery

What if Belize posted like this?

How a tourism board could announce a new route by showing the place, not the plane

Followers
157,000
likes
104
Followers per reaction
1 in 1,510
What if Belize posted like this? The episode cover, with the brand's own post and the remake.

Before and after

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The original post by Belize Tourism Board. A Discover Airlines plane on a royal blue gradient, the words Closer Than Ever in white and orange, three lines of white text underneath and a small white box at the bottom with the airline, the route and the dates.
The remake in the epic scenery style. Frankfurt to the Blue Hole. Europe is now closer to Belize. Discover Airlines, Thursdays and Sundays, 16 December 2027 to mid April 2028.

Original by @travelbelize, shown for commentary. 104 likes on 157,000 followers when checked.

The remake in the epic scenery style. Frankfurt to the Blue Hole. Europe is now closer to Belize. Discover Airlines, Thursdays and Sundays, 16 December 2027 to mid April 2028.
Photo, The Great Blue Hole from the air, by Agnes Lee on Unsplash. Concept by Pratim, not a client.

What changed

Three changes, one post that works.

  1. 01

    The place is the hero

    The Blue Hole fills the frame. Nobody books Belize for the aircraft, so the plane became one small icon on the boarding pass.

  2. 02

    The facts read like a ticket

    Airport codes, the airline, the days and the season sit in one boarding pass block at the bottom, in the order someone checks them.

  3. 03

    The brand's own colours

    Teal, mango and sand from the Belize brand replace the royal blue and orange, so the post looks like the board and the website.

The big idea. Make the Blue Hole the whole post, set the route like a boarding pass in the brand's own teal and mango, and let the one fact that matters, Frankfurt to Belize twice a week, sit where it can be read in a second.

Style tested, Epic scenery. Big views at golden hour, from the air or the edge, with a person for scale at most.

The numbers

One reaction for every 1,510 followers.

104 likes on 157,000 followers is 0.066% of the people who already chose to follow Belize Tourism Board. A post that lands usually hears back from about 1 in 100. That is the gap the remake is built to close, and it is the number a board understands without a chart.

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Made independently. Belize Tourism Board is not a client. If you are the brand and want this changed or removed, email me.