Business and marketing strategies to promote your destination
Dusseldorf Harbour - source: DZT and Oxtord Spires - source: Britainonview/Pawel Libera
Enticing challenges lie ahead
UNWTO's Tourism 2020 Vision forecasts that international arrivals will reach nearly 1.6 billion by 2020, up from today's estimated 1 billion. The top three receiving regions will be:
- • Europe - 717 million tourists
- • East Asia and Pacific - 397 million
- • the Americas - 282 million
strategic planning
Growing the visitor economy
- • developing a major events strategy
- • attracting investors
- • allocating resources effectively
- • forming strategic partnerships
destination marketing
Raising awareness and understanding - tourists, tourism partners, tour operators, travel trade media
- • creating excellent media relations
- • developing successful promotional materials and platforms
- • effective communications to visitors and stakeholders
We provide sales and marketing support to destination organisations throughout the UK, Europe and in overseas countries.
sales and representation
Increasing visitor numbers nationally and internationally - forging productive relationships with the travel trade, and exploiting
- • corporate and leisure markets
- • conferences and incentives
- • sporting and other events
destination development
Planning for ongoing success
- • identifying and filling product and services gaps
- • developing a one-stop-shop for tourism investors
- • ensuring high service quality and productive co-operation across the destination
- • establishing regional, national and international partnerships with tourism and other agencies
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