Insights
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Bicentennial Promotional Toolkit & Awareness Campaign
Community involvement is a fundamental component of your destination’s marketing efforts. DMOs can ensure a consistent message by leading collaboration efforts and defining guidelines to maintain brand focus. Read time: under 4 minutes
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What Challenges Are Your DMO Sales Professionals Facing?
Take our brief survey and share some of the challenges your Destination Sales Professionals face. Later, we will share our compiled report as well as insights on how to handle these obstacles. Read time: 3 minutes
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How Stakeholders Can Help: Encourage the Conversation, Part 1
Effectively marketing and managing a destination means that DMOs are now responsible for fostering positive online perceptions. This is done by directly engaging with visitors using what Stamp Destinations calls the “right pocket/left pocket” technique. Read time: under 4 minutes
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Brand Evaluation Process Checklist
Rebranding your destination can be an involved—and sometimes complicated—process. To help ensure you don’t miss any important steps, we created an evaluation checklist to guide you through the process. Read time: 2 minutes
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Wayfinding 102: Creating and Confirming the Guest Experience
In Wayfinding 102, we offer DMOs a look at how wayfinding tools can turn the journey from one attraction to another into an educational and enjoyable visitor experience. Read time: under 5 minutes
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Beyond the Ballroom: How to Leverage Non-Traditional Meeting Venues
With meeting planners looking to book events for attendees that are memorable, inspiring and engaging, DMOs have the opportunity to meet their needs by strategically marketing alternative meeting spaces in their cities - consider wedding venues, breweries, downtown rooftops, etc. Read time: under 6 minutes
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Leveraging Events to Generate Overnight Stays
By collaborating with your local stakeholders to leverage their events to help generate overnight stays, your efforts will boost economic development for your destination and encourage repeat visits. Read time: under 3 minutes
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When is more [tourism] too much?
DMOs must consider the social and environmental impacts of tourism in addition to its economic benefits. While it’s encouraging to witness a massive influx of visitors, how is it affecting the integrity of your destination? And equally as important, how is it affecting the overall visitor experience? Read time: under 7 minutes
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Keeping Content Fresh with Community Events Calendar
A DMO must constantly add new content to their website to keep it fresh and relevant to visitors (and search engines!). One way to help create new information is to incorporate a community events calendar. Read time: under 9 minutes
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Free Tools to Help Manage and Deliver Your Digital Strategy
We understand that not all DMOs have the luxury of working with a professional marketing firm. But that doesn’t mean that their digital strategies need to suffer! To remain relevant to your target markets, we recommend two free, easy-to-use online tools that will help you manage and deliver an effective digital marketing strategy. Read time: under 4 minutes