Loretripping: Turning Local Stories Into Travel Motivation
Travelers have always been drawn to the stories behind a place: the legend tied to an old inn, the trailblazer who once called a community…
How to Turn Destination Stewardship Into a Visitor Experience
When we discuss destination stewardship, it often starts behind the scenes, with a focus on protecting natural resources, preserving cultural traditions, supporting residents, and thinking…
Destination Podcasts: Telling Your Story
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of podcasts at Travel Alliance Partnership. We have our own podcast, Destination on the Left, that explores creativity…
4 Tips to Plan a Successful FAM Tour
In the wonderful and exciting world of tourism marketing, there are countless ways to showcase a destination, but few are as effective as a well-planned…
Tourism Advocacy: How Stronger Partnerships Build Stronger Communities
Tourism advocacy often brings to mind meetings with elected officials, legislative priorities, and policy discussions. While those efforts are important, they’re only one piece of…
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…
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…
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…
SEO in Tourism Marketing and AI Search
When we first developed a strong SEO strategy nearly 10 years ago, the search landscape looked very different than it does today. At the time,…