Partner Directory

Destinations International is proud to recognize and thank its leading partners who work with us throughout the year.

Pinnacle | Premier | Principle | Corporate | Industry

Pinnacle

Brand USA is the destination marketing organization for the United States whose mission is to fuel the U.S. economy by increasing international visitation. Our award-winning multi-platform storytelling approach showcases the wide variety of destinations and experiences available to global travelers.

According to studies by Oxford Economics, Brand USA's marketing initiatives have helped welcome 6.6 million incremental visitors to the USA since its inception, generated more than $47.7 billion in total economic impact and, on average, supports nearly 52,000 incremental jobs per year.
thebrandusa.com

Miles Partnership markets destinations and hospitality businesses by working with state tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, hotels and other organizations in the tourism industry to create forward-thinking digital and print content marketing solutions.
milespartnership.com

Simpleview is the travel and tourism industry's leading provider of CRM, CMS, website design, digital marketing, revenue generation, and mobile technologies for destination organizations. Simpleview employs 225+ staff and works with 550+ customers in North America and around the world.
simpleviewinc.com

Premier

Arrivalist is a visitation intelligence company that empowers marketers with a powerful, new set of measurements to evaluate the value of consumers. Our technology analyzes the changing locations of devices to measure how consumers interact with locations and how media attracts visitors.
arrivalist.com

Fired Up! Culture is focused on elevating Destination Organizations through strengthened culture, leadership development and building high-performance teams. We use proven, innovative tools and data-driven solutions to help organizations understand how to inspire their team members, foster a culture of excellence, and experience business breakthroughs like never before.
firedupculture.com

IMEX in Frankfurt and IMEX America were born out of a passion to serve the highest and best interests of the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry. Our shows are not just business showcases. They're platforms for debate, trend-watching, education, networking, advocacy and rising talent. And they're a lot of fun!
imexexhibitions.com

Longwoods International is a leading travel and tourism research company with offices across North America. It conducts Longwoods Travel USA, the largest ongoing survey of American travelers, as well as image, advertising effectiveness, advertising return on investment, "Halo Effect" and other custom research in 12 countries around the globe.
longwoods-intl.com

MMGY Global is the world's largest integrated marketing company specializing in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries. With nearly 40 years of experience in the industry, we offer services across all marketing channels in multiple markets throughout the world. Today, we represent five brands with one goal: to inspire people to go places.
mmgyglobal.com

STR provides clients from multiple market sectors with premium, global data benchmarking, analytics and marketplace insights. Founded in 1985, STR maintains a presence in 16 countries with a corporate North American headquarters in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and an international headquarters in London, England.
str.com

Tempest is an award-winning, fiercely independent travel marketing agency and CRM provider delivering a seamless integration of products, creative solutions, and world-class client service with integrity and transparency. We move people to embrace travel through meaningful brand experiences and provide measurable client success.
tempest.im

Reaching 60% of all online global travel intenders, TripAdvisor combines strategic solutions, top tier performance, and unequaled data intelligence making us a comprehensive partner for destinations. TripAdvisor connects brands with the right audiences both on-site and, through TripAdvisor Everywhere, across the web.
tripadvisor.com

Principle

Bandwango DXE is the groundbreaking destination marketing and commerce platform that redefines the relationship between people and places. Destinations are using DXE to curate experiences for customers and drive measurable economic impact to vendors and partners throughout their region. Experience-based passports are the future of digitally forward travel. With Bandwango, that future is now.
bandwango.com

We are a virtual CFO practice specializing in customized financial assessments, strategic solutions and tools, trusted financial systems, and turnkey accounting services. More importantly, our practice focuses on destination organizations - so we understand not only your unique needs and challenges, but the threats to our industry.
cfobydesigntx.com

Clarity of Place was built in response to the industry's need for a system to guide and measure the destination's role in contributing to community value and enhancing quality of place. We help destinations navigate threats and opportunities that impact their ability to attract visitors and attain their long-term strategic goals.
clarityofplace.com

What Connect does goes beyond producing conferences and shows. It’s about connecting people involved in travel, destination management, hospitality and events—listening, learning what they need to accomplish their goals, and building content, education, resources and relationships around it. It’s about valuing our clients and their customers—knowing their names, interests, business, values and goals.
connectmeetings.com

CLIA is the world's largest cruise industry trade association, providing a unified voice and leading authority of the global cruise community. On behalf of its members, affiliates, and partners, the organization supports policies and practices that foster a secure, healthy, and sustainable cruise ship environment, promoting positive travel experiences for the more than 30 million passengers who have cruised annually.
cruising.org

Cvent is the global meeting, event and travel technology leader. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners for event registration and management, venue selection, mobile apps, email marketing and surveys. Cvent provides hoteliers with an integrated platform, enabling properties to increase group business demand through advertising and improve conversion through proprietary demand management and business intelligence solutions. Cvent solutions optimize the entire event management lifecycle and enable clients globally to manage their meetings and events.
cvent.com

We specialize in developing meetings marketing solutions for destinations using our 75 combined years of destination and hotel sales and marketing experience. Using digital marketing integrated with the sales team's efforts, we reach meeting planners at each stage in the decision-making process.
digitaledge.marketing

Expedia Group Media Solutions is dedicated to building innovative media partnerships for travel advertisers enabling them to leverage Expedia Group's network of leading travel brands and global sites. With a growing product portfolio of advertising and sponsorship opportunities, Expedia Group Media Solutions has revolutionized the way brands reach and connect with online travel consumers.
advertising.expedia.com

JLL's Tourism & Destination Advisory practice specializes in representing the destination organization and adding value to the public sector's investment in this important sector of the global economy. We have delivered customized solutions for more than 100 destinations, cities, regions, states and countries - partnering to attract visitors, convention delegates, improve the overall tourism landscape and ultimately make our clients' destinations more competitive.
us.jll.com

NEXTFactor Enterprises Inc. is a consulting company in the tourism and transportation industry that provides strategic planning and marketing services. In 2014 NEXTFactor led a ground-breaking initiative on behalf of Destinations International called DestinationNEXT. Since that time, NEXTFactor has worked with more than 350 destinations from 18 countries who have used DNEXT to strategically assess their destinations.
nextfactorinc.com

Northstar Meetings Group is the leading B-to-B content and marketing solutions company serving all sectors of the business events market. We help meeting, sports and incentive professionals learn, plan and connect with destinations, hotels, venues and other travel suppliers that can best serve their business needs.
northstarmeetingsgroup.com

SearchWide Global is a full service executive search firm primarily for companies in the travel, tourism, hospitality, convention, trade association, venue management and experiential marketing industries. Specializing in C-Level and Director level executive searches for companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to mid-sized public and private companies and associations.
searchwideglobal.com

Corporate Partners

ADARA empowers the world's leading travel brands to grow the industry together. Built on the world's richest travel data co-op, ADARA offers people-based insights for travel companies. Clients get a value-based understanding of their relationship with their customers, with travel patterns, trends and behavior from more than 750 million monthly unique traveler profiles across more than 190 of the world's top travel brands.
adara.com

Barkley is an independent strategy, design and creative idea company that builds potent modern brands, inside and out. We believe the only brands to survive will be the ones that evolve at the rate of the consumer. In the last decade, Barkley has become one of the preeminent experts on the Modern Consumer. We're committed to knowing the modern consumer better than anyone else and building brands to meet and lead them. We do this through our three idea centers - strategy, design, and activation.
barkleyus.com

Put most simply, our process focuses on identifying the right channels to connect with your target audiences — and in a way that inspires, educates and drives action. But who are those audiences, and what information are they looking for? And where are they going to find it? That’s all key to our discovery process, during which we collaborate with your team to identify your consumers and how to reach them with relevant, engaging information.
casualastronaut.com

Civitas specializes in developing long term funding strategies for destination marketing organizations. Civitas is the nation's leading firm in Tourism Improvement Districts. The Civitas team has helped form an unparalleled 89 local districts throughout the United States and has helped several states investigate the possibility of establishing statewide funding.
civitasadvisors.com

CrowdRiff is an AI-powered visual marketing platform purpose-built for marketing teams at travel and tourism brands. Using CrowdRiff, marketers can discover, collaborate on and deliver top-performing visuals across every marketing channel. We are proud to work with over 400 destinations globally including Visit Colorado, Visit Pittsburgh and Destination British Columbia.
crowdriff.com

Destination Analysts is a team of highly experienced tourism researchers which has helped more than 160 destinations with eye-opening, actionable marketing intelligence to measure and evolve the effectiveness of their strategies - from visitor and new audience profiles, to deep insights into the destination brand, to the economic impact of advertising campaigns, websites and other marketing assets.
destinationanalysts.com

For over 18 years, Envisionit's team of digital experts has been delivering innovation and results living at the intersection of creative, media, and technology. With the launch of Destination ENV, we have designed a team focused on inspiring visitors to imagine what your destination makes possible. It's in our nature to help brands cultivate the right audience relationships. The ones that make them a part of something great and to address the unique challenges CVBs face today. Whether it's an engaging campaign, website, or media program, ultimately, it is out mission to make your destination their destination.
destinationenv.com

Fuseideas is an innovative marketing company “founded on the belief that technology, media and changing consumer behavior creates challenges that at times can feel insurmountable.” A customer service first organization, Fuseideas helps clients re-evaluate and re-assess their brands in an everchanging world.
fuseideas.com

Greenberg Traurig is a full-service global law firm with local offices in 31 US Cities providing a "local" and "on the ground" approach to legal services. We have expanded our tourism and hospitality practice adding professionals who are knowledgeable about your business and who provide industry-specific, cost effective, outside counsel services, operational consulting, and advocacy.
gtlaw.com

As the global leader in meetings procurement, HelmsBriscoe streamlines the meeting planning process by managing the task of researching, contacting, and evaluating venues and destinations for their clients' events. Using their proprietary technology, collective market knowledge, and volume-based purchasing power, HelmsBriscoe works to mitigate risk and increase return on their clients' meetings.
helmsbriscoe.com

Madden is a full-service destination marketing agency which uses innovative, technology-driven marketing strategies to provide solutions for our partners. Our team impacts the growth of communities by creating personalized, immersive campaigns that connect people to places.
maddenmedia.com

Maritz Global Events is one of the largest, most respected leaders in the meetings and events industry. For decades, we have designed and delivered exceptional face-to-face meetings and events and global experiences for our clients and their guests. In today's global economy, where face-to-face meetings and events are more critical than ever, Maritz Global Events helps you prove the value of your events. We understand that every event is a substantial investment, and we're committed to delivering an equally substantial return.
maritzglobalevents.com

Mile Marker 630 creates collaborative partnerships between global consumer brands and the tourism industry, designing dynamic marketing solutions that drive genuine customer engagement, unlock new distribution channels and revenue streams to increase brand loyalty and conversion of customers.
milemarker630.com

The NFL is the premier league for American football.
nfl.com

Pandora connects artists, fans and brands through the passion point of music with over 78 million listeners each month on over 1,800 connected devices and 190+ car models. With their 100% logged-in user base and 2,000+ audience segments, Pandora's music platform provides Travel+ Tourism brands with user data to connect with their targeted audience.
pandora.com

Smart Meetings is the leading meetings industry publisher and voice of inspiration for meeting professionals. We inspire our audience of meeting and event professionals to dream big—and create brilliant experiences that delight attendees, achieve desired results and elevate the impact of the meetings industry. Smart Meetings publishes cutting-edge meetings content in print and digital magazines 12 times per year, hosts world-class networking events, produces CEU-accredited webinars and offers a myriad of digital resources.
smartmeetings.com

Sojern's digital marketing solutions for travel are built on more than a decade of expertise analyzing the complete traveler path to purchase. The company drives travelers from dream to destination by activating multi-channel branding and performance solutions on the Sojern Traveler Platform for more than 10,000 customers around the world.
sojern.com

Tourism Economics is the leading global provider of economic impact studies, policy analysis, market forecasts, and international travel data. Our team of specialized economists works with destinations and corporations around the world to quantify market opportunities, measure performance, and inform public policy decisions.
tourismeconomics.com

TrueOmni delivers powerful solutions to help destinations drive rich experiences and gain access to metrics that sharpen their strategic approach.
trueomni.com

Industry Partners

Association Forum is dedicated to advancing the professional practice of association management. To our nearly 4,000 members, we are the definitive resource for learning opportunities that address the varied needs of associations professionals and provide an environment that engages the association community and industry partners.
associationforum.org

ASAE connects you to a critical marketplace - our 40,000 plus members. ASAE opens doors to the vital association community by engaging destination organizations through digital and print publishing, major conferences and events, and unique Foundation initiatives.
asaecenter.org

Association of Australian Convention Bureaux (AACB) is the organization dedicated to strengthening the impact and the understanding of the role that business events play in Australia's economy in both the immediate and long-term timeframes. AACB's 16 members lead the way in this conversation in partnership with local, regional and national stakeholders.
aacb.org.au

Organized in 1928 as the National Association of Exposition Managers to represent the interests of trade show and exposition managers, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events is the leading association for the global exhibition industry. Today IAEE represents over 10,000 individuals in 52 countries who conduct and support exhibitions around the world.
iaee.com

IAVM's 5,800 members include public assembly venue managers and executives from across all venue sectors. IAVM's mission is to educate, advocate for, and inspire public assembly venue professionals worldwide.
iavm.org

The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association was founded in 1983 and is the world's leading network of LGBTQ-welcoming tourism businesses. We provide free travel resources and information while continuously working to promote equality and safety within LGBTQ tourism worldwide. IGLTA's members include LGBTQ-friendly accommodations, transport, destinations, service providers, travel agents, tour operators, events and travel media located in over 75 countries.
iglta.org

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) is the largest meeting and event industry association worldwide. The organization provides innovative and relevant education, netaworking opportunities and business exchanges, and acts as a prominent voice for the promotion and growth of the industry.
mpiweb.org

As the non-profit 501(c)3 trade association for the sport tourism industry in the United States, Sports ETA is the most essential resource for sports commissions, sports destinations, sports event owners, and industry partners. We believe sports tourism and the events that our members own and host have the power to transform society for the better. Our passion is to help sports events and tourism professionals achieve previously unimaginable levels of performance. We do this by nurturing a community of smart, creative, and interesting people: our members.
sportseta.org

Founded in 1951, the National Tour Association is the premier organization of packaged travel professionals who serve travelers to, from and within North America. Our 700+ buyer members are tour operators who package travel domestically and around the world as well as travel agents who sell these tours. Our seller members - destinations and tour suppliers - specialize in markets such as student, family, faith, culinary, China inbound and more.
ntaonline.com

PCMA is the leading global provider of senior-level education and networking for the business events sector. As the world's largest community of Business Events Strategists, we provide a platform for debate and knowledge transfer, market intelligence and resources to make informed business decisions. PCMA endeavors to shape the future of the business events industry by leveraging state-of-tomorrow knowledge to enable organizational success, personal and professional development and economic and social progress.
pcma.org

Few industries are as dynamic or exciting as travel and tourism. Every day, it's being reimagined and remade by tectonic shifts in culture, economics, and technology. As the travel and tourism ecosystem transforms, professionals across the industry and around the world want quality research on which to make informed decisions. The Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) is where they find it. For more than 45 years, TTRA has been the industry's go-to for evidence-based, global data and analysis. The association unites the travel and tourism research community - university academics, professional practitioners, and users of research – so they can network, collaborate, and ideate in person and across borders.
ttra.com

Relic is a full-service advertising agency, uniquely structured to service a variety of clients across the country. We have clients from California to North Carolina and everywhere in between. Relic represents a time when advertising agencies were created for a specific purpose: to drive sales. With that purpose in mind, Relic functions as an extension of our clients’ marketing teams, acting as both a strategic and executional partner. Our goal is to free up bandwidth for our clients and allow them to focus on the bigger picture or, at the very least, the parts of their jobs they enjoy most.
relicagency.com