Alphabet® is a strategic brand consultancy based in Ottawa, operating for over 25 years. Comprised of subject matter experts, they have extensive tourism and place branding knowledge, and a relentless focus on business objectives.

Their experience in place marketing and destination development offers unique insights to your challenges and opportunities, including:

- Experience in local, regional, national and international markets

- Understanding of destination and place organizations, their structure, their stakeholders, and their partners

- Experience in place marketing strategic development for clients including destinations, attractions, associations, accommodations, and transportation operators

- Experience in communication strategies, developing messaging frameworks, creating action-driven marketing programs, and website/digital planning and development

Bellweather is a full-service creative agency, specializing in tourism, non-profit, and healthcare industries. With a track record of transformative impact across branding, website, marketing campaigns, and more, we create culturally relevant solutions to gain audience and market share. Bellweather is proud to be wholly owned and operated by people of color, and women—representing less than 1% of creative agencies in the world. Every brand has a story. We are here to help write the next chapter.

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.

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.

Known as the “Leader in Marketing Places” since 1960, Development Counsellors International (DCI) is an international integrated marketing 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, 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.

With a legacy dating back 50 years and a team of 55+ in Toronto, Calgary, New York, Sydney and Zürich, Entro is a world leader in the field of branding and environmental design. Entro uses design to connect people to place and fuel a dialogue between users and the spaces they inhabit – from hospitals and transit hubs to museums, arts facilities, corporate and educational campuses, and throughout cities. Entro offers design services in way finding, signage, environmental graphics, exhibit design, branding and media architecture, with expertise in architecture, graphic design, media, fine arts, industrial design, engineering, planning and project management.

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 travelers. 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 travelers, 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.

Data management / Digital / Research / Strategy / Advertising / Marketing / Media

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.

LMNL Studio is a design firm that brings place-based narratives to life. Our multidisciplinary approach pairs strategists  and storytellers with architects and technologists to shape physical places as well as the digital and virtual layers of a connected ecosystem. We call this approach omnispatial design.

Whether you seek to activate a specific space or create a more magnetic destination, our approach to purposeful placemaking aims to inspire, educate, and build community. Our innovative design process integrates spatial technologies as a material layer of place so environments come alive with art, real time data, digital wayfinding, and moments of pure delight.

Watch this video to learn more about LMNL Studio, an omnispatial design practice specializing in purposeful placemaking.

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 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.

Propulso empowers decision-makers with rapid, ethical location intelligence. For over seven years, we’ve developed pioneering technology solutions that transform raw data into actionable insights.

Our GeoIndicator product delivers detailed market analysis and visitor movement insights in minutes—at a fraction of traditional costs. Meanwhile, our GeoMarketing solution optimizes ad campaigns and audience targeting, enabling businesses to achieve measurable, real-world engagement and conversion.

Organizations and companies worldwide trust our platform for reliable, ethically managed business intelligence. With Propulso, they gain the precision and insight needed to make informed decisions and drive impactful actions.

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.

RoleCall is a team of economic development professionals on a mission to make your community’s talent attraction personal, authentic, actionable, and measurable. We collaborate with places nationwide, leveraging insights from across the talent landscape to help you stand out.

From marketing strategy and lead capture to employer onboarding and targeted content development, we partner with you at every stage to maximize your opportunities to turn your place marketing into measurable, personal talent attraction. RoleCall helps your team turn clicks into candidates, connect talent to employers, and keep residents engaged.

Simpleview, now part of Granicus, 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 425+ 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.

TopRight is the premier, story-led brand consultancy and activation firm. We believe in the transformative power of brand living. Our unique approach naturally activates customers, delivering a unique competitive advantage for our clients. We develop and activate brands to drive business success. Working with complex organizations operating in complex ecosystems, we're well-positioned to drive transformative growth for your organization. Our leadership team embodies decades of expertise, having worked in place branding (such as Middlesex County, Fulton County, City of Detroit, City of Calgary, the Toledo Region, Cathedral City, VA Horse Industry) and with global powerhouses in technology, entertainment, and beyond.

Joe Veneto, Chief Experience Officer, Veneto Collaboratory, is a placemaking and experience design expert partnering with Destination Management Organizations, Economic Development Agencies, Travel Attractions and Corporations. Through the Experience Design Studio process, he creates innovative places as well as new customer experiences that transform tourism landscapes and convert customers into destination brand ambassadors.

The Experience Design Studio process has been implemented in multiple destinations throughout North America. Sample experiential destinations include Richmond, The Columbia Valley, and Surrey, BC, Canada; Louisville, and Paducah, KY; Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, AL; Deadwood, SD; Madison, Green Bay and Eau Claire, WI; Scottsdale, AZ; Sonoma County, CA and others.

Joe is also a highly regarding thought leader and professional speaker on tourism trends, destination placemaking and customer experience. He presents programs annually at Industry Conventions, Tourism Conferences, International Associations and Economic Development Agencies. His content-rich programs provide innovative ideas and insights that make him one of the industry’s most requested experts on Experiential Tourism and Destination Development.