Brand USA To Launch Road Trips Campaign With Google

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These Brand USA campaigns will be under great scrutiny from budget hawks in Congress, who would love to eliminate the countrywide promotional arm for U.S. tourism. The map/trip-planning idea sounds promising, but it all depends on its execution.
Brand USA, the public-private travel marketing arm of U.S. tourism, announced plans for a 2013-2014 Road Trips promotional campaign in partnership with Google, Enterprise Rent A Car, and Spotify.
As part of a three-phase Discover America campaign, which is slated to soft launch in November, Google will be working with Brand USA on an interactive Discover America map geared toward geo-referencing content to show accessible activities for international visitors. Google's Zagat unit will