Azira LLC, a global consumer insights platform, helps marketing and operational leaders improve their effectiveness with actionable intelligence to drive business results. Its mission is to create a more relevant world where brands are empowered to reach and build relationships with consumers. With a commitment to partnership, trust, and transparency, combined with decades of expertise in consumer behavioural analytics, Azira delivers innovative marketing solutions to curate audiences, activate omnichannel campaigns, and understand footfall attribution. Azira serves enterprises in retail, hospitality, travel, and more. Azira is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Paris, Bangalore, Singapore, and Sydney.

Brandkit® is a leading brand management platform built for Destination Marketing, Place Branding Organisations, and Economic Development Agencies.

Our platform combines digital asset management, media centre, CMS, customisable Brand Portal, File Transfer, Content Distribution, and Stakeholder Collaboration tools that enable brands and their marketing teams to find, manage, curate, share and deploy images, video, brand assets, brand guidelines, infographics, pdfs, design files, press releases, blog posts, story ideas, links to earned media, and more, at scale, all in one unified content library.

Brandkit® is headquartered in New Zealand and works with a number of DMO’s, Place Brands, Economic Development Agencies, and other businesses globally. Including Tourism New Zealand, VisitScotland, Brand Estonia, and Brand Tasmania.

CivicBrand is a consultancy that helps cities, downtowns, counties, and destination organizations shape their identity through strategic branding, public engagement, placemaking, and design. Guided by a triple bottom line approach—benefiting people, driving economic opportunity, and enhancing the built and natural environment—CivicBrand focuses on creating lovable, resilient places rooted in community vision. With a “locals-first” philosophy, they emphasize storytelling, equitable engagement, and authentic representation. Since 2008, their team of strategists, creatives, and place-makers has helped communities foster civic pride, strengthen local economies, and guide growth through cohesive branding and meaningful public involvement.

CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform purpose-built for the travel and tourism industry. The platform combines content discovery, digital asset management and content delivery tools that enable marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale. 

CrowdRiff currently works with over 900 leading travel and tourism brands globally, including Destination BC and the European Travel Commission.

Development Counsellors International (DCI) is a global research, marketing and public relations firm that specializes exclusively in tourism, economic development and talent attraction marketing. Since we were founded in 1960, we have worked with more than 500 cities, regions and countries to attract visitors, businesses and talent. Ranked a Top 20 Global PR Firm by PR Week and one of Outside Magazine’s “Best Places to Work,” DCI is a certified women-owned firm with a leadership team of five partners. DCI employs more than 80 of the best and brightest professionals in place marketing. Our agency is headquartered in New York City, with a presence throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Environics Analytics (EA) is the premier marketing, information and analytical services company in Canada, helping thousands of customers across every industry sector turn data and analytics into strategy, insights and results. Established in 2003, we specialize in developing and using best-in-class data, analytics expertise and purpose-built software to address key challenges in areas such as consumer profiling and segmentation, multichannel media planning and execution, trade area analysis, fundraising strategies, government services planning and site location decision-making. We are the exclusive provider of LiveRamp technology and services in Canada. EA is ISO 31700 Privacy-By-Design certified and is an affiliate of Bell Canada.

Getro helps Chambers and EDOs convert passive and active talent into regionally invested candidates. Their AI-powered tools help increase visibility and provide direct access to jobs, raising the inbound-to-hire yield while creating a new non-dues revenue channel.

Strengthen your region's talent pipelines with automated talent attraction using a job board and talent network. Getro’s AI tools help communities to grow by connecting the right people to the right opportunities. Stop manually posting jobs, and start tracking real impact on successful hires with Getro.

Gravity Global is the world’s most awarded, fully integrated marketing agency, built to help organizations earn attention and accelerate growth. We propel brands upward and outward with cohesive strategies that inspire action and deliver measurable impact. 

With deep expertise in place branding, we’ve partnered with Middlesex County (NJ), Fiji Islands, Fulton County (GA), City of Detroit (MI), City of Calgary (Canada), the Toledo Region (OH), Cathedral City (CA), and Virginia Horse Industry Board—alongside global leaders in technology, entertainment, and beyond. Wherever the challenge, Gravity brings global reach, unified expertise, and independent spirit to drive transformative growth for places and organizations alike. 

Miles Partnership is a strategic marketing consultancy focused exclusively on travel and tourism. Our mission is to enrich lives through travel by positively impacting communities and travelers with audience-focused, results-driven solutions. Our team is skilled in every aspect of travel and tourism, from marketing and communications to destination management and sustainability.

Today we work with more than 150 destinations, hospitality businesses and other travel industry clients worldwide to develop marketing and management strategies that amplify local experiences, boost visitation, improve community relations and increase overall economic impact.

MMGY Global is the world’s leading integrated marketing firm specializing in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. With operating brands across the world, the award-winning organization maintains a global communications practice in all marketing channels, serving many of the world’s premier travel and tourism brands. MMGY Global strives to create a connected, inclusive and peaceful world by promoting travel as a cultural bridge of understanding. For more information, visit mmgyglobal.com.

Propulso is a location intelligence platform that helps organizations make smarter, faster decisions by turning anonymized mobility data into business actionable insights. Our GeoIndicators provide on-demand, fully customizable market analyses in minutes—at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional methods. Our GeoMarketing solution enables precise audience targeting and campaign optimization based on real-world movement, while tracking success through physical conversions. With unmatched data precision, privacy-first practices, and advanced reporting tools, Propulso equips organizations across industries with powerful, decision-ready insights to drive high-impact strategies and measurable gains—at local, national, and global scales.

Resonance partners with visionary places that seek bolder ideas and better futures to create transformative strategies, brands and campaigns that attract talent, investment, residents and visitors.

Our diverse, multidisciplinary team of designers, planners, strategists, creatives, storytellers, and account leaders has completed more than 100 visioning, strategy, marketing and branding projects for communities, cities, destinations and countries around the world.

Across every project, we strive to foster community, preserve cultural heritage, create vibrancy and generate economic benefits by making places more livable, lovable and prosperous for all.

Our Best Cities reports are covered by thousands of media outlets around the world and used by companies and government agencies to help design, develop and promote places large and small globally. Our proprietary Place Power™ Score benchmarks the performance of cities – from data we collect on 500 urban regions around the world – and gives us unique insights on their performance, and how they can best leverage their strengths to attract residents, visitors, talent and investment.

Simpleview, a Granicus company, is a worldwide leading provider of CRM, CMS, website design, digital marketing services, and data insights for convention bureaus, venues, tourism boards, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), and attractions. The company employs staff across the globe, serving clients of all sizes, including small towns, world capitals, top meeting destinations, and countries across multiple continents. For more information, please visit https://www.simpleviewinc.com/.

Tiki is an AI-powered advertising platform that helps Destinations connect with over 100 million active travel intenders every month. 

Through our direct travel 200+ publisher private exchange, we’ve created the first conversational marketing ad platform for DMOs, serving as a destination brand ambassador to engage travellers safely and effectively before they reach your website.  

Our mission is to inspire both travellers and the places they visit, fostering meaningful experiences that make the world a richer, more connected place.