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Episode 04Tourism associationGlobalStyle tested, photo poster

What if GSTC posted like this?

How the council that writes the standard could fill a free training day in Bangkok

Followers
5,900
likes
5
Followers per reaction
1 in 1,180
What if GSTC posted like this? The episode cover, with the brand's own post and the remake.

Before and after

Drag to see the difference.

The original post by GSTC. A landscape graphic with cartoon characters and coloured tiles on the left in Agoda's palette, and on the right the course title in purple with a date and a venue underneath.
The remake in the photo poster style. Free. One day. Bangkok. Learn to welcome the 1 in 6 people who live with a disability. Monday 23 November at the Agoda One Bangkok office, with trainer Martin Heng, Lonely Planet's former Accessible Travel Manager. Fee waived with Agoda's support.

Original by @gstcouncil, shown for commentary. 5 likes on 5,900 followers when checked.

The remake in the photo poster style. Free. One day. Bangkok. Learn to welcome the 1 in 6 people who live with a disability. Monday 23 November at the Agoda One Bangkok office, with trainer Martin Heng, Lonely Planet's former Accessible Travel Manager. Fee waived with Agoda's support.
Photo, A woman in a wheelchair on the rim of the Grand Canyon, by Romain Virtuel on Unsplash. Concept by Pratim, not a client.

What changed

Three changes, one post that works.

  1. 01

    Three words that fill a room

    Free, one day and Bangkok are the reasons someone registers, so they became the headline instead of the course's formal title.

  2. 02

    A real traveller, a real place

    A woman in a wheelchair on the canyon rim replaces the cartoon tiles, and the post is 4 by 5 so it fills the feed on a phone.

  3. 03

    The facts in a strip

    When, where and who teaches it sit in one clean strip with both logos, and the fee waiver moved from the caption onto the post.

The big idea. Lead with the three words that fill a free course, Free, One day, Bangkok, show a traveller who uses a wheelchair in a place worth travelling to, and give the trainer and the venue the strip at the bottom.

Style tested, Photo poster. A photo with the brand logo and a headline, the format most tourism accounts post every day.

The numbers

One reaction for every 1,180 followers.

5 likes on 5,900 followers is 0.085% of the people who already chose to follow GSTC. 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. GSTC is not a client. If you are the brand and want this changed or removed, email me.