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How to Find the Right Collaboration Partners

Collaboration is one of the most powerful tools available to tourism organizations. It can help stretch limited resources, spark new ideas, reach new audiences, solve shared challenges, and create outcomes…
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How Destinations Are Responding to Changing Meeting Planner Expectations

In our previous blog, How Meeting Planners Are Choosing Destinations Today, we explored how meeting planners are redefining destination selection around trust, transparency, safety and partnership, based on insights from…
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Choosing the Right Social Media Platforms for Tourism Marketing

Utilizing social media platforms for tourism marketing is rarely just about posting consistently or having the prettiest or most cohesive visuals. It is about showing up in the right places,…
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Making a Career in Travel and Tourism: Getting Started

I attended the Destinations International Annual Convention recently and talked to several members of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry. I wanted to know what…

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Financial Benefits of Group Travel

Tourism is an economic engine. Pre-Covid, the economic impact of tourism was at an all-time high, generating $1.9 trillion in 2019 and supporting over 9.5…

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How To Craft A Killer Press Conference

It’s time to announce a huge project coming up for your business. Change is on the horizon, and you’re ready to tell the world –…

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Tourism Marketing for a Milestone Event: Getting Ready for the 2024 Eclipse

Milestones are major events that mark significant change or a new development. Milestones are also markers along the way to know that you are progressing…

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Insights from TAP Dance 2023

Travel Alliance Partners (TAP) was established in 2001 as an organization of premier North American Tour Operators who offer unique products from more than 500 destinations worldwide. From…

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Elemental Photography in the Tourism World

All tourism photography has one thing in common- an element that evokes a reaction, a feeling, or a desire to visit. When you’re in the…

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How to Leverage Local in Your Tourism Marketing

Visiting friends and family is an often overlooked travel motivation for incoming visitors when it comes to tourism marketing. It was one of the top…

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Destination Positioning: How to Stake Your Claim and Find Your Niche

“You can’t be everything to everyone.” You’ve heard it before, but when talking about your destination it can be hard not to showcase “everything” —…

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Food for Thought: Inspirational Food Writing Tips for Destination Marketing

“I love how food has a magical power of bringing people closer together and breaking down barriers.”– Michelle Ng, episode 297, Destination on the Left…

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Artificial Intelligence In Tourism

Although it may be easy to get caught up in the story of all-powerful AI, the reality is much less close to a “war with…

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