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Do styling A/B tests work in Travel & Hospitality?

Better than the Travel & Hospitality average, though not because the industry helps. Styling tests win 15% there against 11% for all change types in Travel & Hospitality. Across all industries styling tests run at 15%, so the category is carrying this, not the vertical.

It is the strongest change type we can currently measure in Travel & Hospitality.

Small winner set. Few of these tests cleared the bar. The 95% interval on that win rate runs 7% to 29%, so read the figure as directional.

The numbers

Travel & Hospitalityall industries
Tests analysed40 tests1,000+
Beat control15%15%
No measurable difference68%
Lost to control18%
Median lift when it won not reported

Median traffic per variant was 1603 visitors. Most ran on product pages (17), homepages (7), checkout pages (7).

Every change type we can measure in Travel & Hospitality

change typewin rate in Travel & Hospitalitytests
Styling (this page) 15%40 tests
Split URL 6%35 tests

The industry overview is at Travel & Hospitality benchmarks; rates across all industries are on the styling benchmark.

What counts as a styling test

Visual treatment shifts — spacing, weight, borders, colour, shadows — with the same content in the same order. Move the content and it is a layout test. Rewrite it and it is a copy test.

Control and variant wireframe for a styling A/B test
Control on the left, variant on the right. Only the changed element is highlighted.

Styling tests that won in Travel & Hospitality

  • Hides several existing page elements/sections via display:none without changing any wording
  • Changes booking button and calendar styling (colors, font weight/size) plus icon background, without altering any text
  • Hides the control button group and shows a styled card-like variant button group (with hover/click effects), swapping between desktop and mobile versions responsively.
  • Hides the default hero banner and shows an alternate hero container instead, no text changes

Styling tests that did not

  • Hides the TV advert banner row, removes its background image, and adjusts layout/spacing/sizing of the leasing option image, text wrapper, and search filter dropdown without changing any text content
  • Bolds a paragraph with a dark background and white text, and hides another paragraph
  • Adds a CSS class to the body element, presumably enabling alternate payment-related styling, with no visible content change described in the code.

These are individual tests, not rules. Each ran on one site, with one audience, against one page we are not showing you. They are picked to be illustrative rather than sampled at random, and a change that won here can lose on your page for reasons none of this captures. Read them as prompts for what to test, not as findings to copy.

Who ran these tests

This is every Mida account that ran a readable test — in-house marketers, founders, product teams, and agencies working on client sites. Nothing here is filtered by who ran the experiment or how experienced they are.

Low win rates are normal in experimentation, including at the top end. Microsoft's experimentation team, reporting on its own platform, found that only about one third of ideas improve the metric they were designed to improve — and that roughly another third actively hurt it. That is a dedicated experimentation organisation with research, prioritisation and review behind every test.

A mixed population like this one runs below that. The gap is roughly what disciplined practice buys you: ideas grounded in research rather than opinion, one variable at a time, and tests built so the result can actually be read.

A win is a variant that beat its control on that test's primary goal with a statistically significant result. Tests that never got enough traffic to say anything either way are excluded. The methodology has the full detail, including what these numbers cannot tell you.