Destination Marketing
Mindsets & Marketing: How Embracing a Growth-Mindset Can Set Your Destination up for Success
We learned that having a growth mindset – or calling yourself “growth-minded” – is more than just forward motion. It is a willingness to work, learn, grow, fail, and try again. … We’ve pulled out five lessons for destination marketers to help you adopt a growth mindset and set your destination up for success:
Read MoreApplying Tourism Marketing Strategies to Talent Attraction
Communities looking to attract new residents or improve talent attraction for their local businesses could steal a few strategies from the tourism marketing playbook.
Read MoreCustomer Journey: Shifting from Dreaming to Planning
COVID-19 has extended the first phase of the traveler’s journey, or the dreaming phase, significantly. Travelers have been stuck in this inspiration phase for months because it has not been safe to travel. Now almost a year later, people are starting to feel more comfortable with the idea of bringing their travel dreams into reality and we are starting to see a shift from dreaming to planning.
Read MoreGamification to Drive Engagement: More than One Way to Create Fun
When it comes to driving engagement, gamification is one of the top strategies to make it happen. We love working on projects or with clients that include an element of gamification. It’s fun to get the creative juices flowing and connect with the target audience in a way that’s fun for them, too. When you…
Read MoreTourism Innovation: Five 2020 Practices to Carry into 2021
Let’s not let the last 12 months go to waste. It may seem hard to find but, I know there was a lot of good that came out of last year. As we start 2021, these are five things that the travel, tourism and hospitality industry can take forward with us to continue the tourism…
Read MoreTop Travel Campaigns of 2020: Tourism Marketers Get Creative in the Face of Adversity
There is no question in anyone’s mind – this was a tough year for tourism marketers. With travel largely shuttered in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, shelter-at-home orders, budgets cut and so many American workers furloughed, travel was at an all-time low. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom in the tourism industry. Destinations…
Read MoreCommunication: Creating World-Changing Collaborations
As we start to round the corner on 2020 and look toward the future and recovery for our industry, we have a tremendous opportunity to rebuild smarter. We did it after 9/11 and again after the great recession and we will do it again after the COVID-19 pandemic. We need new thinking and new ideas…
Read MoreDiversity in Tourism: Diversity = Everybody
Everybody is a tourist at some point in their lives. Everybody likes to take a vacation. Everybody dreams of getting away from the day to day and traveling to a destination that will soothe their soul. It’s interesting however that for some members of our society that travel daydreaming comes with having to first investigate…
Read MoreMeasuring Marketing Campaigns
The basis of every successful campaign comes down to measurement. Identifying whether you met your goals and having the ability to course-correct or change your strategy throughout the campaign is key to knowing what campaigns are repeatable and which tactics work best for your organization. In fact, in our strategic process, measuring is an important…
Read MoreAligning Your Marketing Around the Customer Journey
Every customer goes on a journey when making a purchasing decision – whether buying a car, selecting a cleaning service or choosing a family vacation spot. Each step of the way moves them closer towards making a choice. If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you’ve probably have heard of the rule of seven.…
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