Articles tagged “dmos”

Understanding the value of digital connectivity and strategy in smart cities, Zurich Tourism is helping its destination partners drive new business with sophisticated digital tools.

Dubai knows it can't rely solely upon people spending silly money, it needs to diversify the experiences available to visitors.

New York has made New York bigger by thinking beyond the one borough and engaging visitors in the new neighborhoods they want to explore.

We've been saying for years that content is how you engage Millennials, and that applies to meeting planners and attendees as well. Visit Greater Palm Springs especially focuses on attendees to compel them to advocate on behalf of the destination.

In a city with the sixth largest LGBT population nationwide, Visit Dallas wants meeting planners to know it has a completely different attitude toward equality and tolerance than Houston.

Since tourism bureaus are expanding their roles beyond destination marketing, they require a pipeline of executives with a broader knowledge of political and economic development skills.

The DMO community hungers for new business models and strategies. Sharing best practices is a way to prod forward-looking tourism bureaus into engaging in more experimentation.

Expect this new funding model for tourism promotion to continue to expand, especially as more travel and hotel executives understand the value for their specific companies.

Tourism overall is picking up throughout the Caribbean and as the region enjoys healthy growth it must deal with a number of external pressures that are both similar and different from other destinations.

Cape Town has a unique set of challenges, but it's thinking smart about the assets it has in order to grab the share of visitors it thinks it deserves.