Affinity based Travel Deals

Why this test happened

With a corporate priority of drive more sales for departures leading to end of fiscal, there was a need to incorporate easy access to users to trips on sale from the homepage. Based on most user behaviour data, the tiles were set up via regions, driving users to the correct search page. With a new UI (user interface) introduced to showcase more options, there was the possibility that users wouldn’t see all the regions on sale.

Test Hypothesis

Setting up an initial order of appearance, based on E-Comm data (best performing regions), and then using Affinity based audiences to re-arrange the order of the tiles so that users will see the tile that’s associated to their shopping behaviour first, would help drive higher purchases. This would also ensure that tiles further down the priority order, would get visibility to the users that are more likely to purchase those.

This would also help us validate whether this UI works for user behaviour.

Test targeting

• All visitors
• Homepage and Travel Deals page
• Desktop and mobile
• Traffic allocation 50% Affinity, 50% Control
• Initial order of tiles – Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, Central America, NAME, Aus/NZ, North America
• Ran for 23 days