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• Destination Branding: Davao

  
  Confessions Of A Marketing Addict — Authority: 106
  Destination Branding: Davao All that news about the Maguindanao Massacre made me reflect on my personal experiences in Mindanao specifically Davao. Davao is not all of Mindanao. It is, however, a key city in Mindanao and, therefore, one of the islands major centers for business and education. Very far from ...
  3 days ago

• Brand Mindanao: Post-Maguindanao Massacre

  
  Confessions Of A Marketing Addict — Authority: 106
  Brand Mindanao: Post-Maguindanao Massacre Mindanao is beautiful. But, for all its beauty, that is one place with a monstrous brand problem. For how do you build a destination brand when, every other minute, you hear of people there getting kidnapped and, lately, massacred? In the beginning, the idea of ...
  1 week ago

• Tightrope Walking Over Texas Stadium

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  Well, not exactly over the top of Texas Stadium...but Im sure it feels that way for our friend Maura Gast of the Irving CVB . As explained in a fascinating story in this weekends Dallas Morning News , Maura is leading the efforts to land a corporate sponsor and a national contest for the upcoming implosion of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 3 Key Questions

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  Fred Reichheld penned a great book called, " The Ultimate Question ." Forbes recently offered the 10 Questions you should never stop asking . Three of them are key: • What is our purpose for existing? • Who is our target audience? • Why does anyone need what were selling? Questions that we all need ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Next Step in Quantifying Impact

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  The Destination & Travel Foundation has developed a case study demonstrating how tourism in Phoenix impacts city, county and state government. And, unlike most impact studies...this one factors in a new impact. Property Tax. At last. A number of us have talked about this for a while...but its now ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nashville Trains Taxi Drivers

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  A year ago, Nashville Tourism officials blasted local cabbies for their rudeness. The cabbies retorted that they didnt make enough money and threatened to strike. What a difference a year makes. Armed with a grant from the Nissan Foundation, the Nashville CVB , the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute and Metro ...
  3 weeks ago

• After the Long Weekend...Nothing Has Changed

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  Last week, the Cincinnati City Council narrowly passed an $100,000 addition to its 2010 budget to bring the World Choir Games to the city in 2012 . Dissenters wailed that such a subsidy sends the wrong message. And, just what message would that be? That a city shouldnt invest $100,000 (that will be matched by $3 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Broadway in the Heartland = Tourism

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  While not every touring Broadway show draws visitors into a town (as if "Oklahoma" ever needed reviving), there are those like " Lion King ," " Wicked " and " Moving Out " that are not only great for the home crowd to experience...but draw visitors like fruit flies to a half-consumed glass of wine. The latest ...
  4 weeks ago

• International Travel to the U.S. Continues to Decline

  
  Bill Geist's Zeitgeist — Authority: 123
  I had the opportunity to talk with a reporter from USA Today last week regarding the US Travel Promotion Act and why it was necessary now, after decades of this countrys laissez faire attitude about tourism. One of the reasons? Gadling shares the Department of Commerces new numbers ...and they arent good news. ...
  4 weeks ago

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