AUTHOR: Nicole Mahoney

Creating Your Travel and Tourism Marketing Strategy and Plan

Planning is the most critical thing that we can do for our organizations if we want to continue to grow and be successful. Our process…

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The Keys to Successful Collaborations

In our 2021 Rising Tide study, we revealed three different attitudinal segments among travel, tourism and hospitality professionals. These three groups feel very differently about…

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Successful Collaborations start with Commonality

Successful collaborations start with commonality. The most important commonality elements include establishing and agreeing on goals for the collaboration, having strong champions, and designing the collaboration to benefit all participants.

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Navigating Tourism Marketing Now: 10 Themes from 26 Leaders

In July, I attended the Destinations International annual convention in Baltimore Maryland. It was my first live conference and the first convention to take place…

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7 Steps in Creating a Marketing Plan

Creating a strong marketing plan is an important part of planning for your destination’s year-to-year growth. Writing such a plan should be a collaborative team…

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5 Key Ingredients for Marketing Campaign Success

When I started Break The Ice Media in 2009, I saw how new digital tools were causing PR and marketing to collide and decided to…

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