We unlock the potential in every place, working with towns, cities, regions and nations to create actionable plans and culturally-rich experiences that help build prosperous places and destinations. Your audiences, visitors and partners will understand your place best if they ‘experience’ it – through actions not words.

CTConsults offers multi-disciplinary expertise connecting place branding, culture, tourism, heritage, digital transformation and destination marketing insight through research, strategy, delivery and support.

Over a decade of experience is founded in the value of cultural and creative places and experiences. We’re not just consultants; we’re also practitioners as our work with culturehosts.co.uk and creativetourist.com demonstrates.

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. 

Simpleview, a Granicus company, is a worldwide leading provider of CRM, CMS, website design, digital marketing services, and data insights for convention bureaus, venues, tourism boards, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), and attractions. The company employs staff across the globe, serving clients of all sizes, including small towns, world capitals, top meeting destinations, and countries across multiple continents. For more information, please visit https://www.simpleviewinc.com/.

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.

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.