I miss those long Sunday drives that ended with cheese and crackers. I didn’t realize it at the time, but my middle-class parents (both teachers) loved charcuterie. We didn’t call it that, of course, and it hardly was. We didn’t have fancy assorted crackers, green olives stuffed with garlic, fig…
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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. “The topic of sustainability in the tourism industry is…
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As destinations around the world move into the phases of reopening, they’re all facing a similar challenge: How to implement measures to reopen businesses safely, and how to communicate those safety measures to their residents and visitors. In response to this challenge, the team at Pocono…
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DMOs have an essential role to play in helping to promote the health and safety of communities as well as inspiring confidence in travelers. In the latest findings from Destination Analysts’ Coronavirus Travel Study Index Report, while more than twice as many Americans took trips for the Fourth of…
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When it comes to a safe reopening of local business on the road to recovery, collaboration is key. With the health and safety of customers being the number one priority, travel professionals are already teaming up with medical professionals and public safety specialists to develop guidelines for…
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Any SEO will tell you that the content underneath the SEO techniques has become ever more critical over the past decade. This is by (Google's) design: ultimately, a good search engine algorithm seeks to understand and rate content the same way that a human mind would, and the major players in the…
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Simpleview will deliver CrowdRiff’s visual marketing platform as part of an end-to-end solution for travel and destination marketers TORONTO – July 9, 2020 – Simpleview, the global destination marketing industry’s leading provider of CRM, CMS and digital marketing services, and CrowdRiff, the…
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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. In March 2020, the travel industry was hit by a crisis…
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Earlier this year, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) found themselves in a difficult situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Usually, DMOs exist to drive business and leisure travelers to their destinations. But with bans on non-essential travel in place, many DMOs were left asking…
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In Spring of 2020, Visit Wichita found themselves in a now-familiar predicament for many DMOs. As COVID-19 cases began to rise across the country and around the world, many state and federal legislatures imposed strict rules around public gatherings. This, of course, meant that in-person meetings…
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