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Why the Most Powerful Tourism Marketing Doesn’t Look Like an Ad

There’s a version of destination marketing that most people recognize immediately: a paid ad with a sweeping landscape shot, a headline promising an “unforgettable experience,” and a call to action pointing to a booking page. It runs on social media, search, connected TV, and maybe digital radio. It reaches a …

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The Alphabet Soup Problem: Why Marketing Jargon Isn’t a Strategy

Walk into a certain kind of agency presentation, and you’ll hear the same incantation every time. CRO. CTR. KPI dashboards. Drip sequences. Conversion funnels. Omnichannel attribution. Lead magnets. Inbound frameworks. The acronyms stack up like a wall: impressive, dense, and designed to signal one thing above all else: we know …

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Inclusive Marketing in 2026: What Most Brands Are Still Getting Wrong (and What Actually Works)

Let’s be direct about where we are. Inclusive marketing, building a brand strategy that genuinely reflects the diversity of the customers you serve and the world you operate in, has never been more complicated to talk about, and never been more important to actually do. In 2025, major corporations walked …

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Your Customers Are Asking AI, Not Google. Is Your Business Showing Up?

Here’s a scenario that’s probably already playing out for your business, whether you’re aware of it or not. Someone is planning a weekend in the Finger Lakes. They open ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overview and type: “What are some good marketing agencies in the Finger Lakes region?” Or maybe: …

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The Forgotten Generation

As marketers look for new target markets to focus on as we slowly move beyond the crippling of COVID-19, we realized that there’s one demographic that has been completely overlooked: Generation X. There’s been so much discussion on what Gen Z likes, and what Millenials are up to, and even …

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Surviving Travels’ Revenge

Revenge Travel is a buzzword that has been used over the last year to describe the increase in people traveling to make up for the experiences they lost during the pandemic. However, surviving travels’ revenge hasn’t been easy. From chaos at the airports, like Lufthansa and Eurowings canceling more than …

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