As we gear up to the 9^th City Nation Place Americas conference, we’ve been surveying place leaders across the USA and Canada to provide a better understanding of where they are currently focusing their attention and what challenges they face. 

Tour Cayuga has been on an ambitious journey to transform its approach to destination marketing and placemaking through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Culturist Group's Kimberli Samuel shares valuable lessons all DMOs can learn from their work.

What can you do to cut through the noise and show your private sector partners the value in your work? Place leaders share what they’ve found to be effective tools in engaging their private sector in their place brand and marketing vision.

Colorado has traditionally spent millions each year selling the state as a place to play – yet very little on promoting itself as a place to do business. Discover how a complex research initiative helped build a regional brand for Metro Denver.

Ottawa Tourism's Glenn Duncan shares the team's recipe for success is, how they’re surfacing hidden gems in the city, and why collaborative partnerships are so important for the city’s future.

Collaboration between places and centres of learning can unlock enormous potential. Trajectory's Jeannette Hanna explores how you can develop a systematic approach to listening and collaborating with your educational partners.

Community sits at the heart of place branding, particularly at the local level. With City Nation Place Americas right around the corner, we reached out to our speakers to understand how they’re working to integrate community engagement throughout their strategy to ensure that it’s more than just a tick box exercise.

We sat down with David Goldstein, CEO of Travel Alberta, to discover how their destination management strategy is supporting long-term economic, cultural, and social prosperity for communities across the province.

Destinations around the world are leaning into the power of place branding to unite their stakeholders behind a single vision for their place. Place leaders from the USA & Canada shared their practical advice they had for organisations looking to engage their stakeholders and ensure that everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

For years, Boston has had a reputation as America’s ‘most racist city’. However, renewed efforts from both city government and place marketing organisations are challenging those perceptions, and laying the foundations for a more inclusive Boston.

Stefan Hawes, VP of Global Marketing for Destination Vancouver, explores how destinations should be responding to the emergence of Generative AI technologies and the importance of being more innovative in your place marketing.

Explore Seattle Southside’s new visual identity is a testament to the power that a creative design can have in shaping perceptions of your place. Bringing together three distinct cities under one brand narrative, this new strategy celebrates micro-adventures and the quirkiness you can find under the surface of the most unexpected of places. To understand what the secret was to Seattle Southside’s success, we sat down with CEO Mark Everton to find out how they breathed new life into the region’s tourism marketing.

Houston needed a brand that would be inclusive of all industries - and it needed to reflect the community's sentiment too. Discover how Houston's brand unification project ensured that all stakeholders are working in alignment and towards a common goal – to further enhance Quality of Place.