Meet the Experts

Looking for the right consultant or agency to help you develop and implement your place brand and/or marketing strategy? We're delighted to make some introductions...

Adara

https://adara.com/

Adara helps brands and destinations win in the digital economy by providing the data and measurement tools they need to boost engagement and drive growth. Our privacy-first approach to data means brands and destinations around the world trust Adara for forward-thinking and meaningful insights.

Advertising / Data management / Digital / Marketing
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Leroy Bridges

Alphabet

https://www.alphabetcreative.com/

Alphabet® is a 24-person tourism branding and marketing agency based in Ottawa, Canada operating since 2000.  Alphabet® has a history of partnering with clients and other consultancy teams, pushing the boundaries of how brand positioning and marketing strategy contribute to a destination’s economic vitality. We have established our reputation by being focused on results through creative thinking combined with research, analytics and consumer insight.  Our brand development approach is built for today’s digital and social media environments – understanding how brands today are consumed and shared, creating concepts that include design and messaging platforms to create a timeless brand strategy.

Advertising / Design / Marketing / Research / Strategy
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Cathy Kirkpatrick, Tourism Marketing

Amadeus

https://www.amadeus-hospitality.com/destination-management/

Travel broadens horizons, creates connections and builds economies. Travel powers progress. And Amadeus powers travel. 

We build the critical solutions that help airlines and airports, hotels and railways, search engines, travel agencies, tour operations and improve the travel experience, billions of times a year, all over the world. 

Amadeus harnesses in-depth travel data analytics from the millions of journeys we process every year (10s of billions of searches; 1,000+ airline schedules; 1+ billion annual air booking).  Amadeus for Destinations combines these insights with a broad range of marketing channels to help you reach highly-targeted audiences, make your marketing spend more effective and drive visitor growth in your region.

Advertising / Data management / Digital / Marketing / Media / Research / Social Media / Storytelling
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Daniel Moravanszky

BBC

https://bbcnews.bbcstudios.com/

BBC Studios is responsible for the global, commercial operations of BBC News.

As the world’s most trusted international news broadcaster, accurate, impartial news is available via the 24 hour news channel - BBC World News - and BBC.com, along with a broad range of insightful and in-depth features across BBC Sport, BBC Worklife, BBC Culture, BBC Future, BBC Reel and BBC Travel.

As a commercial arm of the BBC, we work with brands to create partnerships which connect them with our curious and globally-minded audience through bespoke branded content, sponsorship and advertising opportunities.

Advertising / Media / Storytelling
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Samantha Adams

Bloom Consulting

https://www.bloom-consulting.com/

Bloom Consulting is a company 100% specialized in Nation and Place Branding headquartered in Madrid, with offices in London, Lisbon and Sao Paulo.  The specialisation in Country Branding makes Bloom Consulting one of the most advanced and globally renowned companies in the sector with more than 70 projects implemented across 5 continents.

Bloom Consulting publishes its own Country Brand Ranking, with the aim of analyzing the Brand performance of 180 Countries and the Digital Country Index and Digital City Index which measure the digital identity of Nations and Places

Nation Brand Builders, Bloom Consulting Latest book, available on Amazon

Marketing / Reputation Management / Research / Strategy
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Jose Filipe Torres, CEO

Brand Finance

https://brandfinance.com/

Brand Finance is the world’s leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy. Headquartered in the Brand Exchange, a refurbished listed building in the City of London, we are present in over 20 locations worldwide. Brand Finance was set up in 1996 with the aim of ‘bridging the gap between marketing and finance’. For more than 20 years, we have helped companies and organisations of all types and sizes to connect their brands to the bottom line. Our sister company Brand Dialogue is a public relations and strategic communications agency with a specific focus on geographic branding, including supporting nation brands and brands with a geographical indication. 

Data management / Design / Reputation Management / Research / Strategy
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Konrad Jagodzinski, Communications Director

Brandkit

https://www.brandkit.io/

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.

Design / Digital / Marketing / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy
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David Vaassen, Founder & CEO

Brash

https://brash.agency/

Brash is a strategic led brand consultancy, specialising in real estate, placemaking and destinations. With presence in the UK, Middle East and central Europe, the consultancy brings global expertise and unique industry insights, delivered in a personal and bespoke manner. 

Brash is brave and disruptive, always on a mission to identify the bigger opportunity, unlock the brand’s full potential, create positive impact, and deliver tangible business value. With vision and true insights, we develop compelling brand propositions. Through world class design, content, and technology we bring brands to life.

Design / Marketing / Research / Storytelling / Strategy
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Guillaume Froome Cocken

Civic Brand

https://www.civicbrand.com/

CivicBrand is an agency with over a decade of experience in research, branding, consulting, design, and marketing. We’re a team of strategists, creatives and storytellers with a passion for helping communities tell their story.  We work directly with cities, economic development, and DMOs including convention & visitors bureaus (CVBs), chambers of commerce and business associations to develop and implement branding, engagement and destination marketing strategies. We focus on public engagement at the core of place branding and implementing strategies that cut across residents, visitors and business.

Design / Marketing / Strategy / Citizen Engagement
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Ryan Short, CEO

Creos

https://www.creos.io/en/

Creos offers expert consulting and project management services for designing, planning and developing technology and art in public spaces, with the goal of transforming these areas into lively, attractive spaces that combine creativity and efficiency.

A world-leading agency for touring interactive installations, Creos transforms public spaces into must-see destinations worldwide that enrich the lives of citizens and tourists alike. Creos offers a diverse portfolio of interactive installations tailored to venues, offering visitors a unique and memorable sensory and interactive experience.

Design / Strategy / Place Making
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Alexandre Lemieux

CrowdRiff

https://crowdriff.com/

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 800 leading travel and tourism brands globally, including Destination BC and the Netherland Board of Tourism and Conventions.

Design / Marketing
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Hannah Grant, Director Demand, Generation and Growth

CSL International

https://www.cslintl.com/
 
CSL International is the leading advisory and planning firm specializing in providing consulting services to the sports, entertainment, convention, leisure, and tourism industries.
 
Members of our firm have been providing services to these specialized industries since the mid-1990’s and have been involved in over 2,000 engagements. We assist our clients from the earliest stages of project planning, ensuring that all decisions are informed ones. Our consultants provide in-depth information, creative solutions to underlying issues, a thorough analysis of financial implications, and various measurements of risk and return surrounding alternative courses of action.
 
Research / Strategy / Citizen Engagement / Place Making
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Richard R. Cutting-Miller, Vice President, Tourism Strategy

Development Counsellors International

https://aboutdci.com/

Known as the “Leader in Marketing Places” since 1960, Development Counsellors International (DCI) is an international marketing and communications agency specializing in tourism, economic development and talent attraction.

A full-service creative agency, DCI offers research, destination marketing strategy, place branding, public relations, websites, lead generation, digital advertising, creative services, travel trade and business events marketing.

 

Our team of in-house creative place makers designs high-impact marketing campaigns that will help attract more visitors, business and talent to your destination.

Advertising / Design / Digital / Marketing / Media / PR / Reputation Management / Research / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy / Citizen Engagement / Place Making
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Dariel Y. Curren

Epsilon

https://www.epsilon.com/emea

Epsilon is a digital media company that leverages data to drive destination demand. Our digital media solutions allow destination marketers to utilize real-time, person level data to have proactive conversations with the right travellers. We provide DMOs with the ability to use transactional spending data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to build and manage campaigns that speak directly to real people like midweek travellers, past visitors to your destination, bourbon purchasers, golfers, etc. Our measurement solution, Net Economic Impact, measures the direct influence your campaign had on true visitation and visitor spend, yielding an unmodeled measure of economic impact. This reporting will help you prove the value of tourism marketing to your stakeholders by demonstrating how much money visitors spend at hotels, restaurants, retail shops, and more.

 

Advertising / Data management / Digital / Marketing / Media / Research / Strategy
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Jonathan Keslow & Allison Elizabeth

Hunden Strategic Partners

https://www.hunden.com

Mr. Hunden and his Chicago-based firm offer extensive experience in the economics of placemaking, primarily via transformative real estate projects. He has provided economic development, market and financial feasibility, impact, developer selection and planning expertise for more than 800 projects and studies over the past 25+ years, totaling more than $6 billion in developed real estate. The firm completes approximately 60 assignments per year with its 12-person professional staff. Hunden’s background in economic, real estate and tourism development combine to make him a unique resource for communities looking to develop their destinations and projects in a viable, transformative and sustainable way. Some compelling projects include the Chicago Riverwalk and Navy Pier, Distrito T-Mobile in San Juan, a mega mixed-use destination in the Middle East (in pre-development), and Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, ON.

Research / Strategy
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Rob Hunden, CEO

IPSOS

https://reputation.ipsos.com/

Ipsos is an independent market research company delivering insightful expertise that helps clients better understand their market, develop more effective product, marketing, and communications strategies, and understand the world around them. Founded in France in 1975, Ipsos has grown into a worldwide research group with a strong presence in over 90 markets, and conducting research in over 120. Annually, Ipsos releases the Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands Index, the only comprehensive global nation brand survey. The Anholt Ipsos Nation Brands Index (NBI) helps governments, organizations and businesses understand, measure and ultimately build a strong national image and reputation.

Data management / Digital / Reputation Management / Research / Strategy
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Jason McGrath

Miles Partnership

https://www.milespartnership.com/

Miles is a strategic marketing consultancy focused exclusively on travel and tourism. Miles works with more than 130 destinations and hospitality businesses to create forward-thinking print and digital content marketing solutions.

Advertising / Design / Digital / Marketing / Media / Research / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy
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Chris Adams, Director, Research and Online Marketing

MMGY Global

https://www.mmgyglobal.com

MMGY Global is the world’s leading integrated global  marketing firm specializing in the travel, hospitality and entertainment  industries. With eight 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. As a  company dedicated to the global travel industry, MMGY Global strives to create  a connected, inclusive and peaceful world by promoting travel as a cultural bridge  of understanding.

Advertising / Data management / Design / Digital / Marketing / Media / PR / Reputation Management / Research / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy / Citizen Engagement / Place Making
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Whit Bones

Resonance Consultancy

http://resonanceco.com/

As leading advisors in economic development, tourism and real estate for more than a decade, Resonance combines business strategy and marketing creativity to help shape the future of countries, cities and regions around the world.

Our team has advised destinations, communities and governments in 20 states and more than 70 countries. We provide leading public and private sector organizations with consumer research, strategic planning, marketing strategy, place branding and economic development strategy to help places realize their full potential.

Marketing / Research / Strategy
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Jeremie Fleinblatt

Simpleview

https://www.simpleviewinc.com/

Simpleview is the worldwide leading provider of CRM, CMS, website design, digital marketing, revenue generation, and mobile technologies for destination marketing organisations (DMOs). The company employs 325+ staff and works with 900+ travel, tourism and convention marketing customers on six continents, from towns of less than 30,000 to world capitals, including Los Angeles, New York and 14 more of the top 20 U.S. meetings destinations, Dubai, East Sweden, Guadalajara, Melbourne, Prague, Reykjavik, South Africa and the countries of Malaysia, Norway and Scotland. 

Data management / Design / Digital / Marketing / Research / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy
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Kevin Bate, Senior Director of Business Development

The Travel Foundation

https://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/

The Travel Foundation is a global charity with technical expertise in understanding and managing the impacts of tourism in destinations, for the benefit of communities and the environment. The charity works across the public and private sector, encouraging collaboration in placemaking to manage the burdens of tourism on communities (see www.invisibleburden.org) and future risks to the visitor economy, and to maximise opportunities for sustainable product innovation and local SME supply chain development. Their headquarters are based in the UK and are active across the globe.

Data management / Research / Strategy / Citizen Engagement / Place Making

Toposophy

https://www.toposophy.com/

For more than a decade, TOPOSOPHY has been a leading place making and marketing agency, with a global reputation for rigour, professionalism and forward thinking. TOPOSOPHY’s integrated services span across four main areas: research and intelligence; strategy and consulting, marketing and branding, and creative platforms and events. We are committed to supporting our clients and partners to transform places sustainably, creating an environment where inhabitants and visitors can thrive.

Looking for some quality place-based inspiration? Discover Common Ground by TOPOSOPHY - our new podcast series that takes a look at the future of our cities and the people redefining it.

Data management / Design / Digital / Marketing / Media / PR / Research / Social Media / Strategy
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Manolis Psarros, CEO & Founder
Trove

Trove

Trove is a digital strategy and marketing agency for tourism boards, tourism authorities and tour operators. Our focus is on tourism development through the development of "troves" which are treasures or gems in a destination that have major potential for rapid visitor growth. We bring innovation to tourism organisations - from sentiment analysis, to data-driven market segmentation, to branding & influencer strategy, to smart social media campaigns and predictive data analytics. Our goal is to help destinations create better digital branding, marketing, and analytics programs and “stand out.”

Data management / Digital / Marketing / Media / Research / Social Media / Storytelling / Strategy
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Danny Cohanpour

Zartico

https://www.zartico.com/?hsLang=en

Zartico’s mission is to provide the clearest perspective of the visitor economy. As the world’s first Destination Operating System, Zartico combines science, technology and domain expertise to positively impact the tourism and visitor economy. By harnessing the power of proprietary data streams, Zartico answers the “why”. With over fifty years of destination and travel experience, Zartico is uniquely positioned to lead the transformation from global destination marketing to global destination leadership.

Data management / Storytelling
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Ted Sullivan