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Attracting Canadian Travelers: How U.S. Tourism Partners Can Build Bridges Despite Policy Challenges

Living in Rochester, NY, I’m always struck by how close Canada feels. It’s quicker for me to drive to Toronto than it is to reach New York City—it’s easier to…
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Advantages of Niche Market Tourism

What is Niche Tourism? Niche market tourism uses programs to attract visitors focusing on a very specific market segment built around a well-defined product. We’ve said it before, tourists are…
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Gamification 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…
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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Capacity Building in Communities for Destination Development

Capacity building is the process of developing strength and sustainability. The process helps organizations and communities achieve longevity and focus more on fulfilling their mission…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: 4 Tourism Resources

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark Given all the racial injustice happening across the country, conversations around equity, diversity…

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Diversity 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…

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The Importance of Core Values

Living in today’s world has been an experience unlike any we have been through before. So much of what we knew to be true, expected…

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Measuring 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…

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Aligning 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…

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