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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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Destination Podcasts: Telling Your Story

It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of podcasts at Break the Ice Media, as we have our own podcast, Destination on the Left, exploring…

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Changing Travel Trends in 2023

With constant changes in the world around us and everything moving at seemingly hyper-fast speeds, travelers are increasingly turning to their vacations as a way…

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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:

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Main Street Marketing and Community Partnerships

The COVID-19 pandemic reignited a desire to support local businesses, and this doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. After the pandemic, an Intuit…

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2022 Top Tourism Campaigns Bring Typing Ponies & Talking Kangaroos

This year saw us returning to travel in big ways, and the campaign ideas rose to match! We found some of the most creative, quirky,…

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Increase Foot Traffic with Motorcoach Business – 11 Ways to Become Group Ready

Working in the travel and tourism industry allows us to get to know organizations that rely on visitors to their communities to help grow their…

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Lessons from Museums on Building Strong Community Partnerships

Museums have a unique perspective in the tourism industry, and they form their collaborations and change around community. What can other tourism attractions and destinations…

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Creating Experiences to Create Memories

At the 2017 NYSTIA Empire State Tourism Conference in Lake Placid, I was inspired by the overall theme of how to make a destination stand…

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How to Pen the Perfect Pitch

Being able to successfully pitch a story to the media is one of the most important tools to have in your PR toolbox. Public relations…

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2023 Tourism Trends

In 2022, we saw a lot of new trends in the travel space. From abnormal travel planning cycles and travel habits to revenge travel. There…

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