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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…
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.
How Your Competition Could Make You More Successful: 2021 Research Findings
While it might seem intuitive that collaborators are avoiding working with organizations who provide similar products and services to the same audience, we were surprised to see that the opposite is true.
Collaboration research: What did 150+ travel, tourism, and hospitality professionals say?
Backed by stats In December of 2020, we surveyed 161 travel, tourism, and hospitality professionals to learn more about their stance on collaboration. The results…
5 Lessons Learned During the Travel Pause
As a business serving clients in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry exclusively, when the travel pause began in March 2020 we wondered if we…
Applying 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.
Tourism 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…
Top 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…
Collaboration Toolkit
Our first research study confirmed that collaboration is a constant in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. It is not a matter of if, but when and how, organizations will collaborate together. Our latest study reveals how organizations are putting collaboration into operation and how they are setting up systems and processes so that collaboration becomes a strategic part of the organization.
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