City Nation Place Americas

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Joining the dots between economic development, tourism, and quality of life for your communities


City Nation Place breaks down the silos between tourism, economic development, and city management to foster a dialogue on how places can work better together to attract talent, tourism, and investment and improve the quality of life for your community.

The 7th City Nation Place Americas conference is taking place in New Orleans!  Join us on June 7th & 8th at the new Kimpton Fontenot Hotel for a two-day program that will include…

  • The opportunity to join a place-shaping tour hosted by Greater New Orleans Inc
  • Keynote presentations and panel discussions with tourism and economic development leaders from across the US and Canada on the challenges and opportunities you are facing in your city, state, or place
  • Round table discussions for peer-to-peer learning with fellow delegates
  • A choice of expert-led sessions digging deeper into strategic and tactical approaches to place branding and marketing
  • Great networking with the senior leadership teams of destination marketing organizations, economic development boards, mayoral teams, and business improvement districts

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NOMINATE SPEAKER

You’ve created a truly unique platform that allows us to holistically address the most pressing issues facing our industry and our communities. I thought the content was spot on and can’t wait until next time! As a colleague commented to me, “this is THE event for early adopters.” Couldn’t agree more!!

Adam Burke, President & CEO, Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board

The 2023 conference agenda will focus on….

  • Practical examples of how destination marketing and economic development teams are improving collaboration to the benefit of their place economy
  • Advocating for the work that you are doing as a tourism and economic development team
  • Engaging all your stakeholders in a unified place narrative and marketing positioning – including the private sector, politicians, and educators
  • Engaging your community in your strategic development of place, tourism, and the place economy
  • Leveraging a strong place brand and reputation to attract, retain, and develop a talented workforce
  • Integrating a D&I focus into tourism and economic strategies to ensure more equitable growth
  • Re-focusing KPIs to develop more meaningful metrics for your quality-of-life proposition
  • Destination stewardship: how destination marketing and economic development teams and taking a lead on delivering more sustainable place shaping, tourism, and development

Speakers

The City Nation Place team thrives at helping cities around the world showcase the best of what they have to offer, and it’s exciting that they have chosen New Orleans for their next major conference. City Nation Place Americas not only serves as a great chance for attendees to see how economic development and tourism work hand in hand, but also an opportunity for them to experience the best of what our city has to offer. We look forward to welcoming them to the Crescent City.

Michael Hecht, President and CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Host Partners

Greater New Orleans Inc.
New Orleans & Company

City Nation Place breaks down the silos between tourism, economic development, and city management to foster a dialogue on how places can work better together to attract talent, tourism, and investment and improve the quality of life for communities. We share this goal with City Nation Place. New Orleans is well-established as one of our nation’s most distinguished hosts of complex events, conferences, and meetings. The city is well known for its unique brand of joy, celebrations, festivals, food, music, architecture and so much more. New Orleans is Built to Host, which at its foundation is because of our diverse and welcoming people.

Walt Leger III, President and CEO, New Orleans & Company

I must give sincere thanks to the team for an inspiring and revitalizing City Nation Place Americas event in Pittsburgh last week. I have a personal way of flagging BIG ideas in my notes – unfortunately this time they ALL seem to have that denotation.

Tim Chambers, VP of Marketing & Communications, Tulsa Regional Tourism-VisitTulsa