Economic Development

Place branders share their expertise ahead of CNP Americas 2023

In just three weeks’ time, we’ll be welcoming 200 place leaders from across the USA and Canada to New Orleans for the seventh annual City Nation Place Americas conference. Here's just a sneak preview of the discussions you’ll be able to join in order to get you excited ahead of the conference on June 7-8th!

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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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New research from City Nation Place highlights emerging priorities for place brand and marketing organisations

Each year, we reach out to our community of place brand and marketing leaders to benchmark how the industry is developing and to take stock of emerging challenges and opportunities. With the continued global uncertainty, it once again seemed particularly pertinent to understand how strategies were evolving. Here are just a few of our key takeaways from the research to help inform your own strategies…

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Cosa Rica: Leveraging and building place brand strategies as a unifying narrative

Place brand strategies require a strong, authentic narrative to engage and motivate all stakeholders, and to inspire and attract the audiences you wish to influence. Discover how Costa Rica’s sustainable positioning is paving the path to long-term success in investment attraction and economic development.

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Making your KPIs work harder for your organisation

How can you prove the long-lasting impact of your strategy when you’re advocating for the value of your work to your key stakeholders? Ten of our expert partners shared their thoughts on how place brand and marketing organisations can re-think their approaches to the Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] that they use and how you can make sure you’re measuring impact in the areas that will make a difference for your organisation.

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Engaging your private sector in the development of a unified city-brand – Case study: Brussels

Private sector organisations are key ambassadors for their destinations. Jeremie Feinblatt, Resonance Consultancy, joins Aurore Martano and Annemie Vershueren of visit.brussels to explore how they engaged their private sector from the ground-up to create a more meaningful and consistent destination brand experience.

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What does structural collaboration actually look like between destination marketing and economic development organisations

How can DMOs and EDOs pool resources, integrate teams, share data, and collaborate on KPIs to deliver more effective strategic progress? Learn from successful examples of collaboration – from ad hoc MOUs to the full integration of resources and approach.

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