Challenge: Marketing agency DCI needs to market its own services and thought leadership through its external-facing blog.

Skills: Connect with leaders to research and write blogs for executives and leadership (2019-present) including social media post captions for LinkedIn and Facebook.

2024

Coming!

2023

DCI Honors its MICE Maverick, Pam Balakian

Getting to Know DCI: 60+ Years of Business Evolution

8 Top Arts and Culture Writers to Pitch in 2023 and Beyond

From the Chairman: 3 Destination Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Five Reasons Tourism Research Investment is the Smart Year-End Spend

Six Reasons To Form Partnerships with Black Travel Media

Transformational Travel: Embracing the Search for Deeper Meaning

Three Ways to Evaluate Business Events Spaces

Travel Editors at PRSA Dish on Consumer Media Pitching

A Millennial Confesses: 5 Digital Tools Destination PR Pros Need

DCI Welcomes Two New Destination Marketing Partners to Agency

PRSA Recap: Pitching to Non-Travel Media

World Tourism Day – 5 Lesser Known Travel Trends to Know

From SATW: 5 Ways to Make Your Pitch Standout to Editors

Preparing for IMEX: 5 Meeting Trends that Destinations Need to Embrace

Convention Center Partnerships to Build for Better Business Events

How College Towns Inspired These DCIer’s Love of Place

4 Ways to Lean Into Qualitative PR Measurements

Meetings for the Future: Focus on Venue’s Food and Beverage Offerings

What Really Matters to Your Tourism Workforce

Reaching Out to the Latino Travel Trade

6 Ways to Captivate the Meetings and Events Press

Designing the Transformative Event Spaces Meeting Planners Demand

5 Canadian Media Trends Spotted at TMAC

Keys To the Kingdom: NATJA Travel Editors’ Advice for PR Pros

5 Things That Caught My Attention at City Nation Place Americas 2023

New Research Reveals Experience Creation is Key to the Meeting Room of the Future

Five Key Takeaways from the Talent Wars 2023 Report

3 Reasons To Partner with Travel Advisor Consortia

8 Methods to Better Brand Research

What I Wish I Knew in College: Destination Marketing Advice

7 Ways Tourism Advocacy for Communities is Finally Making Inroads

6 Reasons to Target Expat Writers In Your Destination

Research Reveals 4 Canadian Travel Trends for 2023

6 Steps to Sustainability and Greener Meetings

5 Things to Glow Up Destination Travel Trade Websites

15 Foodie Influencers to Get Cooking With

Why Search Advertising Is The Best Tool In A Small Destination’s Marketing Toolkit

5 Ways DMOs Can Do Better for DEI in the Meetings Industry

2023 Canadian Traveler Research Reveals 3 Top Needs

Is There A Future for Women In Tourism Leadership?

5 Challenges to Diversity in Meetings and Business Events

6 Benefits of Paid Media Partnerships in Canada

5 Truths About Destination Branding You Didn’t Want to Hear

5 Reasons Marketers Should Value Tourism Awards

5 Things DMOs Need To Know About Route Development

7 Top Travel Trends for 2023

2022

Business Events in Focus: Prioritizing Minority-Owned Suppliers

6 Hispanic and Latino Travel Writers to Celebrate this Month and Beyond

From SATW: 5 Things Top Travel Editors Need You to Know

5 Ways for DMOs to Benefit Local Communities Concretely

3 Reasons Elite Travel Advisor Programs Help Local Communities Thrive

Top 8 Art and Culture Writers to Pitch

4 Venues Beyond Convention Centers for Smaller Event Spaces

5 Creative Strategies for World Tourism Day 2022

7 Tips To Get Ahead of Crisis: Evaluating Your Tourism Crisis Response

5 Ways DMOs and EDOs Should Streamline Efforts

9 Top Meetings Industry Writers to Know

4 Ways to Frame Your Destination With Digital Stock Photos

Four Ways to Refresh Remote Work Visa Programs

Top 11 Family Travel Influencers and Creators to Know

7 Tips to Attract Last Minute Canadian Travelers This Summer

5 Reasons to Use Local Media as Ambassadors In Destination Marketing

Niche Travel Marketing: Six Creative Storytelling Solutions

How to Pitch: 7 Top Outdoor Writers To Wrangle

Get Noticed by Attracting Meeting Planners with FAM Trips

5 Tips to Leverage Streaming Services for Tourism and Placemaking

Travel Advisors and Influencers: 5 Tips for Partnering Together

How to Pitch: The Top 12 Best Family Travel Writers

How to Connect with Meeting Planners: Post-Pandemic Insight

6 Ways to Celebrate National Travel & Tourism Week

Tapping Travel Writers for Content Campaigns

Cultivating Collaborations with DMCs to Drive International Luxury Travel

3 Ways to Frame Virtual Events as Sustainable Events

Basic Travel Marketing SEO: Five Ways to Improve Your Blogs & Content

Tourism and Economic Development Collaboration

2021-2019 (content deleted during website redesign)

What Current Travel Research Study Will Help You Plan for 2022?

Do I Need A Media Room on My Destination Website? Uh… YES!

Rise of Female CEOS Advance DMOs In The Drive For Diversity

What Travel Stories Are Being Covered? Six Big-Picture Lessons from U.S. Media Post-Delta

5 Travel Insights as US Border Reopens To Canadians

5 Reasons We Need Destination Marketing Organizations More Than Ever

5 Reasons DMOs Should Get Excited About Infrastructure

Set Up To Fail: Why Diversity Lags in Travel Marketing Jobs

Destination Marketing Organizations: Make Plans Now To Celebrate World Tourism Day

What Are the Signs of Hope for MICE and Business Events Travel?

Calling Museums: You’re Needed More Than Ever

What Meeting Planners Need From CVBs

Press Trips: To Be Or Not To Be?

Streaming Services and Destinations: Synergy

Beyond the Webinar: 5 Tips for Successful Travel Trade Marketing

Should DMOs Be Pumping the Brakes on Spring Break?

Tourism Research Round-Up…Four New Studies Making an Impact

Remote Working Programs: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Luxury is Out! But High Travel Spending Will Persist

2020

The Dreaded 2020 In Tourism Recap

Trend or Foe? Revenge Travel

Placemaking for the People, by the People

Listening to Local Sentiment This Holiday

Canadian Travelers and Packaged Travel

Traveling Beyond Red and Blue

Getting There and Staying There: What Canadians Want

Meet Canadian Consumers Where They Are: Online

From Pivot to Permanent: Messaging For the Long Term

Rethinking Your Destination: Niche Tourism

Masterclass on Virtual Events

Authentic Inclusivity in Marketing and Placemaking

Travel Inspiration 101: Show, Don’t Tell

Rethinking KPIs in the New Norm

Prepare for a Second Wave of COVID

Museum Marketing: 5 People to Help Grow Tourist Visitation

Being Able-Minded About Accessible Travel

Inclusive Marketing: A Culturally Sensitive Approach in Travel

Preserving Positive Changes Post-COVID-19

Business Events: A Hope-Studded Future

Generational Divides: Travel Expectations in A Post-COVID-19 World

2019

Five Secrets to Successfully Pitching Freelance Travel Writers

Museum Marketers: Crash Course

Museum Marketing: 5 Tips

Destination Marketing in Times of Crisis

Do FAM Trips Really Lead To More Travel Agent Sales?

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