A colleague of mine, Tracy LeGault, once told me never to trust cookies that I couldn’t eat. I chuckled and laughed it off at the time, but today it seems she may have been on to something. For as long as I can remember, we’ve been using cookies to understand consumer behavior better, track…
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Future of Tourism Series | Guest Blog By Michael Crockatt Lately, I have been half-jokingly using a corny line about celebrating a full year of everyone making wrong predictions about the COVID-19 pandemic. At the very least, there’s a lesson we have learned from those mistakes. Let’s stop making…
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In this time of global crisis and uncertainty, we put the call out to leaders, CEOs, strategists and consultants to sit down and tell us, in their own words, what is going on and what is going to happen next in this vital global industry. Flashback to Rio, March 2020: In a market where…
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Identifying the different types of travelers is an essential step in creating a marketing strategy for destinations. It is crucial to understand travelers' needs and motivations and what factors influence their behavior to provide them with relevant content at the right time. Check out our…
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This is part four in our four-part series exploring the data destination marketers need to consider at each stage of the “Awareness-Interest-Desire-Action” funnel. With the first three steps complete, it’s time to look at how we might measure a post-coronavirus recovery in travel in your…
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Future of Tourism Series | Guest Blog By Bill Geist Diversity, equity and inclusion. We’ve been talking about the topic for years, but it took the events of the summer of 2020 to shake many in the destination marketing world to become intentional about making this concept more than an aspiration…
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You may have heard the term “digital footprint” thrown around recently. We’ve talked about it on the Future of Tourism podcast, and in reference to one of our newest offerings, the Digital Influence Report (more on that later). But you may be asking yourself, what exactly is a digital footprint…
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As more and more people around the world get vaccinated each day, the return of in-person meetings and events seems inevitable. To learn how destinations are preparing for this industry comeback – and how COVID-19 has changed the industry forever – we spoke to three different DMOs across the…
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Prior to the pandemic, the meetings and event industry supported 5.9 million American jobs and spurred hundreds of billions of dollars in annual revenue. This year, in celebration of Global Meetings Industry Day, and in anticipation of the impending return of in-person meetings and events, we’ve…
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In this time of global crisis and uncertainty, we put the call out to leaders, CEOs, strategists and consultants to sit down and tell us, in their own words, what is going on and what is going to happen next in this vital global industry. There's a quiet, intense intellectual thoughtfulness to…
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