Advocacy

Attributing foreign investment to place marketing efforts

What can you do to demonstrate the impact that place marketing has on the bottom-line for your organisation? Mohamed Ashoor, Head of Digital Marketing at the, Bahrain Economic Development Board [EDB], talks to us about how they developed a marketing attribution model to show the impact that marketing has on delivering investments into the Kingdom.

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Stepping out into the sun: Canberra’s new brand positioning aims to sway hearts and minds

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. But it’s not Australia’s most famous city. To tackle misconceptions about the city, the team at Canberra are unearthing the city’s DNA to position the city in a way that reflects their everyday reality and showcases Canberra’s strengths to a domestic and international audience. Isaac Mizrachi, Senior Director – Marketing for VisitCanberra, caught up with us to outline the strategy and vision for the city, as well as his top tip for other destinations looking to grow awareness of their place.  

label_outline AdvocacyCitizen EngagementDestination MarketingReputation

Harnessing citizen power to reboot your place brand strategy

How do you secure the buy-in of your community and include your citizens in the story-telling and positive advocacy for your place? Colette Jones of Destination Cleveland, Suzanne Weirick and Arvis Dawson of Elkhart County, and Barry White of Chattanooga CVB join Trajectory’s Jeannette Hanna to give top tips from their experience.

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How Swedish cities are betting on storytelling to make the transition to climate neutrality a reality

Getting stakeholders to understand your vision can be a challenge at the best of times. Sweden’s solution to engaging stakeholders in your sustainability strategy? Storytelling. Per Grankvist, Chief Storyteller for the government-funded initiative, Viable Cities, explained to us how they’re pioneering a new approach to driving more sustainable change and how a local-centric approach is key to successfully changing behaviour.

label_outline AdvocacyCitizen EngagementPlace BrandingSustainability

Place attractiveness for all: how should places, and place leaders, be responding to the national conversations around D&I and equitable development?

How can you adopt intentional D&I strategies that really make a difference? Al Hutchinson, Visit Baltimore, Kelly Brough, Denver Chamber of Commerce, and Kevin Eshkawkogan, Indigenous Tourism Ontario, outline ideas for improving diversity and inclusion across tourism and all sectors of economic development - and how you can put KPIs in place to measure more than just box-ticking.

label_outline AdvocacyCitizen EngagementCultural HeritageDestination ManagementSoft Power
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