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Why travel brochures make you want to book

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Those impossibly vibrant pamphlets aren't an accident. Marketers aggressively oversaturate the blues and yellows in promotional materials to trigger a subconscious psychological association with warmth and happiness, effectively tricking your brain into spending money.

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