Amadeus powers travel experiences that feel personal, authentic, and connected. We connect data, technology, and people with hotels, destinations, and travel sellers to anticipate demand, exceed expectations, and deliver seamless, personalized journeys that build lasting relationships.

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 behavioral 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.

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

Bloom Consulting publishes its own Country Brand Ranking, with the aim of analysing the Brand performance of 180 Countries. Bloom Consulting introduced the first-ever study on the impact of Nation Brands and City Brands on local and global economies.

Nation Brand Builders, Bloom Consulting's latest book is available on Amazon.

Brand Finance is the world’s leading brand evaluation and strategy consultancy. We help place brands measure their marketing activities and develop successful strategies. Headquartered in the City of London, we are present in 25 countries worldwide.

We have published the Brand Finance Nation Brands study into the strength and value of the world’s top nation brands for 20 years. In 2020, we launched the Global Soft Power Index – the world’s most comprehensive research study on perceptions of nation brands, surveying opinions of 150,000+ respondents in 100+ markets and ranking all 193 member states of the United Nations. Our Brand Finance City Index – published for the first time in 2023 will be extended in the coming years to cover more city brands in regional rankings across all continents.

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.

C Studios is the marketing communications agency for places, with expertise in investment promotion, talent attraction and trade promotion. We enable destinations to thrive on the global stage by developing strategies and campaigns that attract investment, draw top talent and boost trade. In short, we position your location where decision-makers can't ignore it. Based in Amsterdam and with offices across London, Paris, and Frankfurt, we help cities, regions, countries, real estate developments, science parks and trade zones become more lovable, credible and findable in the eyes of decisions-makers.

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.

Creos pioneers the field of interactive installations, setting the standard since 2016 for transforming places into unforgettable experiences. As a world-leading agency, we combine expert consulting and project management with one of the industry’s most extensive portfolios of touring interactive installations.

Our projects bring places to life and turn them into must-see destinations, generating positive attention, direct economic impact, and stronger social ties within communities. With a focus on creativity and efficiency, Creos helps cities and destinations enhance their identity, enrich the lives of citizens and visitors, and spark meaningful connections through memorable sensory and interactive experiences.

We unlock the potential in every place, to create places and experiences that are rich in culture and meaningful to our lives. We believe that your audiences will understand your place brand best if they ‘experience’ it – through actions not words.

CTConsults offers industry-leading expertise in place branding, connecting strategic thinking in culture, experiential tourism, heritage, digital transformation and destination marketing through insightful engagement, research, strategy development, delivery and support.

Our expertise is founded in the value of culture-led regeneration. We’re not just consultants; we’re also practitioners as our work with culturehosts.co.uk and creativetourist.com demonstrates.

Granicus Destinations is the dedicated destination marketing business segment within Granicus, serving more than 1,000 destination marketing organizations (DMOs) globally. Built on the heritage of Simpleview, the industry’s leading DMO platform for more than 25 years, Granicus Destinations provides the technology, data and services that destination organizations use to drive demand, win meetings, engage their communities and prove economic impact. For more information visit:  https://www.simpleviewinc.com/.

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. 

HemingwayDesign is a multidisciplinary design studio with a legacy / portfolio that crosses disciplines and sectors. We work across culture led regeneration, urban design, community-focused placemaking, large scale multiarts festivals, place branding, amongst other things.

HemingwayDesign have successfully delivered a number of major town and city place-shaping visions strategies, & masterplans across the UK – in a recent funding release HemingwayDesign led projects receiving £70m in Levelling Up funding to help deliver transformational change.

We make place-shaping sing, and more importantly we put strategies to work; to genuinely make a positive lasting difference. We have decades of experience working to improve places and steering them in the direction they want to go – from Blackburn to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and London to Lowestoft. We curate and produce cultural events and activations, working with locally based arts and creative communities.

Our multi-disciplinary team combines the experience of urban designers, ideas people and placemaking strategists. Together we can be more strategic, more authentic, to pinpoint and co-create the right opportunities for places. 

Between the twin pressures to be ‘unique’ and ‘the best’, many places are lost as to what actually sets them apart from the others. INSTID advises on your place’s natural strengths to build on and tell the world about.

Our Place Compass, grounded in behavioral science, assures a smooth transition from brand identity to strategy and the creative. This means a surgical precision to your communication across both rational and emotional planes.

INSTID is a choice of clients who want to go beyond cliches and produce meaningful, pioneering place branding and marketing.

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.

N/LF is a pioneering consultancy in future-proofing places, transforming challenges into opportunities and building places prepared for tomorrow's uncertainties. 

Our unique approach integrates place branding, placemaking, and our exclusive Place Strategic Foresight© method, co-creating innovative solutions with public managers and communities. We stand out through our non-linear method that explores multiple scenarios, anticipates changes, and strengthens local identities. By combining precise data, creativity, and active engagement, we drive sustainable development. 

At N/LF, we transform futures into tangible possibilities, shaping truly future-proof cities: dynamic, adaptable, and prepared to thrive in different scenarios, embracing it with confidence and innovation.

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.

Reputation Lab is a firm specialised in the management of corporate reputation and other intangible assets of companies, organisations and countries. Its partners are pioneers in reputation analysis and management. Reputation Lab helps companies and institutions to create sustainable competitive advantages through the integrated management of two of their main assets: brand and reputation. Reputation Lab has adapted the most advanced methodology for measuring and managing the reputation of companies to the reputation of countries (RepCore® Nations).

ResearchFDI is a world-class investment attraction consultancy, delivering customized strategies and research-driven programs for economic development organizations and regional promotion agencies worldwide.

Founded in Montreal in 2010, the firm has expanded to include offices, consultants, and partners across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Asia —facilitating over $50 billion in capital investments and generating high-value projects for more than 300 entities globally. The firm's mission is to position clients to identify and secure high-value inward investment opportunities efficientl

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.

RoleCall is an economic development and talent attraction consulting and strategy agency. We work with city and state governments, Chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and destination marketing organizations to build effective, trackable, and sustainable talent attraction solutions. Our unique digital platform provides real-time data insights to prove the efficacy of marketing and attraction efforts, making sure that investments are providing an impactful return. From consulting and strategy to marketing and lead nurturing, RoleCall’s expertise provides high-level outcomes for its clients.

The Sojern Travel Marketing Platform helps destination marketers reach and inspire travellers throughout their planning journey across digital channels. With unmatched visibility into travel demand and market insights, we build audiences to find the right travellers for your destination. The platform is flexible to meet the needs of destinations and their stakeholders and gives visibility and into the economic impact of your marketing efforts.

The Data Appeal Company, with Data Appeal Mabrian as its destination travel intelligence division, is part of the Almawave/Almaviva Group and a global leader in AI-powered travel and destination intelligence. We transform data from more than 130 sources into strategic insights for tourism organizations worldwide, covering areas such as air connectivity, accommodation, visitor spending, traveller sentiment, events, experiences, mobility, sustainability, and more.

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.

For more than 15 years TOPOSOPHY has been inspiring and supporting destinations to transform places, whether these are neighbourhoods, cities, regions or whole countries, through the design, development, and delivery of innovative and impactful placemaking and marketing solutions that are built to last.

Our in-house team of 20 dedicated professionals, and global network of 20+ associates, includes some of our industry’s most experienced researchers, analysts, strategists, marketeers, designers, and field experts. We have delivered place-based projects in 40+ countries across four continents and are trusted advisors to some of the world’s leading international tourism organisations, multinational brands, government agencies and Destination Management Organisations.

Trajectory’s place brand clientele ranges across North America, from urban/suburban communities to rural and wilderness destinations. Working with neighbourhoods, BIDs, municipalities, counties, regions and development agencies, our integrated strategy, design and implementation know-how drives economic, tourism and talent attraction successes for over 30 communities, from Washington DC to Vancouver Island. What connects them is the need to communicate a powerful message of “Why choose here.” Based in Toronto, Canada Trajectory’s reputation has been built on robust stakeholder engagement; evidence-based strategies; distinctive design systems; authentic storytelling; savvy marketing; plus sustainable implementation plans and tools.

Travel Forward (formerly the Travel Foundation) is an independent, global non-profit and registered charity working to transform tourism so that it supports the wellbeing of communities and protects places.  We work with tourism destinations and businesses worldwide to confront climate risk, address inequality in tourism and strengthen destination resilience.

Founded in 2020 by Danny Cohanpour, Trove Tourism Development Advisors is a boutique agency serving domestic and international DMOs. Based in New York and London, our small, passionate team of travellers combines expertise in development, marketing, PR, trade, analysis, and storytelling. We deliver customised, white-glove strategies that highlight each destination’s unique strengths while fostering sustainable tourism that uplifts communities and small businesses. With projects spanning 25+ countries, Trove stands apart by staying agile, people-driven, and proudly non-corporate, devoted solely to helping DMOs thrive on the global stage.

Brianna Vetrano is a digital place marketing consultant specialising in paid media, SEO and analytics for place brands. 

Over the past decade, she has partnered with over 85 global place organisations to craft result-oriented digital strategies, guide internal marketing teams and harness data to showcase meaningful, measurable impact to stakeholders. 

With expertise across economic development, tourism, investment promotion and talent attraction, Brianna helps cities, regions and countries reach target audiences online and drive the results that matter most.

As an independent consultant, Brianna offers flexible support tailored to help teams of all sizes maximise their budget, time and resources.

Violet PR is an award-winning public relations agency specializing in economic development, place marketing and strategic communications. One of the few agencies dedicated exclusively to earned media for investment promotion, the firm partners with investment promotion agencies (IPAs), economic development organizations and trade associations to support foreign direct investment (FDI), business expansion and international trade. For UK organizations seeking to raise their profile in North America, Violet PR builds awareness, shapes perception and attracts investment through strategic media relations, thought leadership and compelling storytelling. The agency was named "Best Boutique Agency" by the Public Relations Society of America.