What makes a successful nation & place branding campaign? David Haigh and Parul Soni, Brand Finance, share how a well-managed nation & place brand can help overcome reputational challenges.
How can city governments, DMOs and EDOs now help their downtowns, main streets and neighbourhoods to recover from the impact of COVID-19? Our panel of place branding practitioners explore the challenges and opportunities of bringing together all key stakeholders to deliver a collaborative solution.
In late 2017, Cape Town announced that the city was facing ‘Day Zero’ – or the day when Cape Town would become the first major world city to have to turn off the taps. We reached out to Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro, the trade and tourism promotion body for the Western Cape, to discover how the region is responding to the pandemic and to understand how their experience of the drought has influenced their response to COVID-19.
Discover how the London Docks team overcame the challenges of working with multiple stakeholders whilst still engaging the hard-to-reach by creating space and forums for the wider community.
What have CEOs from leading destination marketing and economic development organisations learnt during the COVID-19 crisis? And how are they mitigating the impacts and planning for the future?
Over the years, we've been privileged to see some of the best and brightest of place marketing and place branding and place marketing campaigns from around the world, and as we gear up for the 2020 City Nation Place Awards, we wanted to share some of our personal favourites...
From inter-institutional collaboration to ambitious decarbonisation plans, discover how the Costa Rican nation brand became the core of the national consensus for the new century in their award -winning case study.
If there are any silver linings to the COVID-19 pandemic, the renewed spirit of global collaboration and creative innovation would be one. As one of the few EDOs to collaborate with the private sector in the UN's Global Hack, Locate in Kent share advice for EDOs looking to ensure their organisations are sufficiently resourced and agile to survive and thrive through the crisis and the recovery period.
What was apparent during last week's Americas conference is that places across the USA and Canada are rising to the challenges created by COVID-19. Here are six of the most common challenges faced by place branders in North America, and how cities, states and regions are pivoting to tackle these challenges.
How can you leverage economic data to drive a comprehensive web strategy as an investment promotion agency? Stéphane Paquet, President & CEO at Montréal International, shares how data, story telling and a sector-specific approach have been central to their success.
As we adjust to a COVID-19 world, we’ve got a real opportunity right now to rethink our approaches to tourism and embed a sustainable approach into our long-term strategy. How can we create a framework that helps to ensure we make sustainable decisions?
A clear place brand strategy is more than a nice accessory - it creates a framework for how your destinations should respond to unexpected challenges. Clare Barnett, Director of Economic Development & Culture for the City of Brampton, explains how they have centred their place brand identity at the heart of their COVID-19 response, and how a clear communication strategy and policy advocacy is enabling them to support their private sector through the crisis.
A global recession is unavoidable. UNCTAD [The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development] are estimating that global FDI could drop by as much as 40%. And with companies likely to look towards regionalising their supply chains, a comprehensive Aftercare strategy has never been more important. But how has Aftercare evolved to meet the demands of a COVID-19 world?
As we prepare for recovery after COVID-19, building collaborative relationships could be key to stretching limited resources further. Edith Wong, CMO at Invest Hong Kong, shared how the nine cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) are being promoted collaboratively, whilst retaining their unique positioning.
Is there a danger that we lose focus on sustainability in favour of quick recovery after COVID-19? Or is now the time to make real change, to take this global standstill and use it as a chance to determine how we can build more sustainable tourism and place economies?
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