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Five Road Trip Trends Shaping Tourism Marketing in 2026

A road trip used to feel like the simplest kind of vacation: pick a place, pack the car and go. Travelers are still eager to get away. They still want…
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Mapping the Travel Customer Journey

Most tourism marketers I know have an almost innate grasp of the unique ways the traveler’s mind works. Maybe it’s because they paid attention to how they handle their own…
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How to Move Your Organization from Reactive to Proactive Collaboration

In 2016, I launched my podcast Destination on the Left to explore creativity and collaboration in the travel and tourism industry. At the time, I noticed collaboration was happening naturally across the…
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More Great Inspiration

Tourism Marketing Blogs Turn Inspiration Into Travel

Most destination marketing organizations already have a blog. Many tourism-focused organizations and businesses do as well. But many don’t have a strategy for producing regular content….

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Pinterest for Tourism Marketing

When most tourism organizations think about social media, they think about Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. But Pinterest for tourism marketing rarely makes the shortlist. That…

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Maximizing and Proving Trade Show ROI

Trade shows are a significant investment. Between booth space, travel, staffing and time away from the office, the costs add up quickly. Most tradeshow websites justify that…

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Themes from ABA 2026 Part 2: Embracing the Experience

In Part 1 of this series, we explored how collaboration has become essential to the future of group travel. Another change that is quickly becoming…

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Themes from ABA 2026 Part 1: Collaboration is Essential

At Travel Alliance Partnership, collaboration has always been at the center of everything we do. We’ve long believed that when destinations, associations, attractions, and industry…

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Top Tourism Campaigns of 2025

Each year, destination marketers are challenged to do more than inspire travel. They’re expected to entertain, connect culturally, reflect values, and show up where audiences already…

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Understanding Content Marketing for Tourism

You’ve probably heard the phrase “content is king” more than once. And while marketing trends come and go, content has proven to be a solid…

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Niche Group Travel Starts With Communities

Group travel is changing. For a long time, group trips were built around logistics—shared transportation, fixed schedules, and stress-free travel. But today’s travelers don’t join…

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Commitment: World-Changing Collaborations

World-changing collaborations are grounded in the Three C’s of Collaboration: Communication, Commonality, and Commitment. This framework is based on over 5 years of podcast interviews,…

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