Year: 2020

While my own fair city of Asheville has been under a mask wearing mandate for the last month, many states and cities are just now beginning to implement similar restrictions within their jurisdictions.  These requirements have added another element to the already fine line many destination marketing...

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always work in places that aren’t Vegas, but I often look to the smart people out in the desert for clues to trends in consumer behavior and then watch how they respond.  I don’t think any destination pivots as well as Las Vegas does. You may have seen...

Alright, alright, alright. We get it. There are all kinds of people who want to flaunt their scorn of social distancing, masks, and other coronavirus-related restrictions.  Their videos and photos make for good social media fodder that spreads virally (pun intended).  They spark outrage and distrust...

One of the more insightful pieces of coronavirus-related tourism research I’ve read in the last few weeks comes courtesy of the folks at Destination Analysts,  as part of their ongoing surveys of American travelers about their intent to travel.  These findings are a couple of weeks old and while...

As a planning consultant who’s hired to offer counsel to my valued clients, it pains me to say this, but… I don’t know any more than you or anyone else does about what the future looks like.  My crystal ball is hopelessly broken. As I said in my last blog post, we all need to be...