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.

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.

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.

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.

Thriving in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing competitive business environment requires business intelligence, innovative strategies, best practices, and trusted advisors.

Veneto Collaboratory – founded in 1996 – partners with clients in the Tourism, Hospitality, Retail and Service industries. We work collaboratively with clients to identify new business opportunities, create strategies, and implement solutions that drive economic value, customer engagement and loyalty. Our work leverages organizations’ existing assets to generate sustainable business results.

Our specialities include destination development and placemaking, strategic planning, experience design and consumer travel packaging. We customize solutions and strategies for destinations based on the desired outcomes, unique circumstances, and goals for each client.

Our Experience Design Studio methodology is a unique destination and experience design process that innovates a destination’s tourism landscape along with their tourism attractions and businesses.