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Tourism Best Practices

January 14, 2016
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Some tourism professionals at Convention and Visitors Bureaus – CVBs (or Destination Marketing Organizations – DMOs) are doing some innovative programs to increase visitation in their destinations. We call them Tourism Best Practices. Visitor’s bureau plans to install kiosks downtown The Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau will install a handful of kiosks in downtown Springfield in 2016 that will direct visitors toward restaurants and tourist attractions in the city. Inaugural progressive dinner to be held in downtown Florence A progressive dinner, hosted by the Florence Convention and Visitors Bureau, will be held in downtown Florence on Jan. 14. The…

January 12, 2016
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Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. (3) How do you maximize this marketing strategy? 5 Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing ROI An email marketing strategy can result in a 4,300 percent return on investment (ROI). If you’re not seeing that kind of return, give these tips, identified by Cynthia Price, director of marketing at Emma, a…

January 12, 2016
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This is the year you are going to improve your marketing. This is the year that every initiative is going to yield high ROIs. This is the year you are going to know which half of your marketing works! Well, to help you, we’ve assembled 42 marketing tips, blogs, and strategies to consider: 10 Ways To Simplify Your Local Marketing Strategy in 2016 Looking back at lessons learned last year and expected trends for this year, columnist Wesley Young cuts through the clutter and suggests ways to make your marketing strategy simpler, clearer and easier to execute. 10 Actionable Marketing…

January 11, 2016
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Social media is ever changing and marketing professionals are always looking to keep up with those changes and the trends in the various platforms. Here’s 20 social media trends and tools for 2016: 5 Key Social Media Marketing Trends to Watch in 2016 While we all expect certain platforms to introduce certain updates, it’s arguably more important to understand the wider context behind such changes, the implications of those specific updates in a wider sense. Social Media Trends 2016 We expect to see improvements when it comes to the accuracy of measurement capabilities, the integration of tracking paid performance, and refining…

January 5, 2016
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Before any of us get too far into 2016, let’s review five of the most read articles in 2015 on social media. The tips can’t be bad just because we changed calendars right? 4 Ways to Rock Social – Regardless of Network There’s a way to simplify your social media presence. By embodying these four universal rules of social media, you can skillfully and swiftly move from one network to the next. How to Get (and Keep) Customers With An 8-Second Attention Span In this age of ever-shrinking attention spans, the question for marketers and advertisers becomes: How can we…

January 4, 2016
3 min read

Before we get too far into 2016, perhaps a look back at 2015 and the top articles for travel and tourism… Millennial Travel Habits Force Tourism Bureaus to Shift Strategy Millennials at destination marketing organizations are pushing senior leadership to develop more innovative digital communications and more experiential sales efforts targeting both the leisure travel and meetings sectors. SFTravel Forges First-Ever Pact with Airbnb Amid San Francisco Hotel Crunch San Francisco has become the first-ever city to formalize a tourism partnership with short-term home rental service Airbnb. The San Francisco Travel Association, known as SFTravel, has created a new destination promotion partnership with San Francisco-based…

December 30, 2015
1 min read

Some tourism professionals at Convention and Visitors Bureaus – CVBs (or Destination Marketing Organizations – DMOs) are doing some innovative programs to increase visitation in their destinations. We call them Tourism Best Practices. Minden, LA, tourism is booming and it started with destination development A film tour, a self-guided tour featuring signage that points out homes and locations used in the production of major motion pictures filmed in the area, leads the new tourism product offered to visitors to Minden, LA. Casper, WY, CVB uses research to launch a niche campaign The effective use of research can help a destination realize…

January 21, 2015
4 min read

Like Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of Summer, last night’s State of the Union Address by our President marks the unofficial start of Legislative sessions, not just in Washington D.C., but in capitals in every state. How are you engaging in the process? You cannot leave it to your state association to advocate for you. You have a responsibility as a business owner, industry leader, voter, to engage with your Legislator. I dusted off a piece How to Play a Key Role In Our Representative Form of Government. I did not pen it. I would freely give credit to…

December 10, 2014
3 min read

At a recent town hall meeting, Oklahoma Lt. Governor Todd Lamb made a pretty good case that the tourism industry is one of, if not the most undervalued industry. “Few grasp the tourism industry’s impact on Oklahoma. They don’t realize U.S. travelers spend $7.2 billion in Oklahoma in 2012 or tourism generated $385.3 million in state taxes – the third largest revenue stream in state government – and $188.5 million in local taxes that year.” Beyond the numbers are all of the issues destination marketing professionals have to deal with. I recently spoke to a Chamber Leadership Class about issues related to tourism. After I shared…

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