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Travel and Tourism Terms, Acronyms & Abbreviations

Can You Talk Tourism? Every industry has its own language. We abbreviate words or phrases to save time, effort or space – this is great, as long as you know…
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Storytelling is Key in Tourism Marketing

In a world filled with stunning travel photos and packaged itineraries, what truly inspires someone to book a trip? It’s not just the picture-perfect landscapes or the extensive list of…
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How to Find and Identify Influencers

In today’s digital landscape, influencers play a pivotal role in shaping travel decisions and inspiring destination discovery. Whether you’re promoting a hidden gem of a small town, a unique attraction…
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Elements of Top Tourism Campaigns

You know them when you see them. Standout tourism campaigns can be big and flashy, or subtle but powerful – or some combination of these…

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Proactive vs. Reactive PR: Why Both are Essential to Your Public Relations Strategy

A good public relations strategy brings a mix of many different tactics to the table – pitching, active outreach, hosting media and FAMs, attendance at media shows, desksides, and more.

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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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How to Promote Local Tourism

When it comes to promoting your tourism business – whether you’re an attraction, restaurant, museum or hotel, you may feel like you’re all alone. Luckily,…

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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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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.

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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…

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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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