Destination Marketing Outlook 2022: New Skift Research

The last two years have proven to be an extremely challenging time for destination marketing organizations (DMOs). The entire industry was being put on hold, and DMOs had an additional unprecedented responsibility to their audience: encouraging people to travel less and even avoid traveling. 

In Skift Research’s newly released Destination Marketing Outlook 2022 report, we examine how DMOs reacted to and dealt with the pandemic and make sense of what the future holds and how DMOs will shape up in 2022. We conducted a survey in December 2021 of about 100 professionals from DMOs globally and interviewed executives from seven key DMOs to analyze the functioning of DMOs across five key facets: funding, revenue, expenses, staffing levels, and marketing.

For each of the facets we have assessed the trend from the pre-Covid to the post-Covid phase and pointed out the trends that will contribute to a sustainable recovery and growth.

What You’ll Learn From This Report

• The pre-Covid setup of DMOs
• Impact of Covid on DMO operations
• DMO responses to Covid in shifting roles, priorities and marketing strategies
• Recovery aid and timeline
• Marketing spends, channels and priorities for 2022
• Emerging trends in destination management for long-term recovery

Destination Marketing Outlook 2022

Destination marketers have put up a positive outlook for 2022 aiming for diversified funding and revenue sources along with some crucial internal changes focusing on stakeholder engagement, targeted marketing and sustainability initiatives. It is to be seen if the changes contribute to continual recovery and growth.

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