Destination Marketing Podcast

Mo Parikh from Bandwango is back on this week's episode of The Destination Marketing Podcast. Listen to hear some of Mo's tips on using Bandwango effectively in your destination as well as the importance of transforming your destination into an e-commerce platform in order to increase stakeholder engagement and improve the overall visitor experience in your community. "Our mission is to enable our customers to support local businesses through the creation of unique experiences. We're on a mission to send ten million people into the doors of local businesses by 2023." -Mo Parikh Bandwango Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

This week on the Destination Marketing Podcast, join Adam as he talks with Andreas Weissenborn, host of the Architects of Destination Advocacy Podcast, about the importance of advocacy in destinations as well as how podcasts can play a key role in not only telling the destination's story but also cultivating a community of trust between your community and your destination marketing organization. The Architects of Destination Advocacy Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

Adam is back in the studio in this special episode of the Destination Marketing Podcast. He is joined by Benoit Grouchko and Evan Saunders from Near to talk all about data and how DMOs can utilize Near's technology in their destination. "With the amount of data increasingly scaling and all the focus we put on our end, I really like our ability to keep answering more and more use cases for tourism boards and being able to get one level deeper in supporting their strategy." -Benoit Grouchko Near Tourism Media Mayhem Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

In this final episode from the 2021 Sports ETA Symposium, Adam chats with Al Kidd, president and CEO of Sports ETA. Listen to hear how he has seen sports help the industry rebound after COVID, and how some of his recommendations on how DMOs can further utilize sports tourism in their destinations. "Sports is really the catalyst to the relaunch of tourism. We're not leading anything. Sports has its rightful place, but the dynamics of staging a new sporting event are different so there's an advantageous process they go through. That's my message to DMOs. Sports is a major catalyst that's playing its role right now in tourism with the relaunch of event activity post-COVID." -Al Kidd Sports ETA Influencer Marketing for Destinations Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

This week on the Destination Marketing Podcast, Adam is joined by Mike Millay from Clancy's Sports Properties. Listen to hear about Mike's experience working with Disney and ESPN and some of the lessons he has learned from his years in the industry.  "We made a lot of mistakes but along the way, you learn how to do things better and improve your processes. That helped me hone my business skills. We are a lot more analytical in how we look at events and how we value them once they leave." -Mike Malay Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

This week on the Destination Marketing Podcast, join Adam at the Sports ETA Symposium as he talks to Jennifer Stoll, executive director of the Greater Grand Junction Sports Commission. She recently released a Sports ETA white paper about measuring the success of sports, events and tourism in communities across the country. Listen to hear her words of wisdom on the subject and learn how to define and refine your destination's mission statement. "It's about the expanded definition of success in the industry. We talk so frequently about the economic side of it which we equivocate to heads in beads, that's how we all speak the lingo. Our communities benefit in a variety of ways in addition to the economic side. What does that look like if we start to identify those things and start to tell that story and how does that change our value proposition in our communities?" -Jennifer Stoll White Paper: Expanded Definition of Success for the Sports Events and Tourism Industry Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

Adam continues his time in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sports ETA Symposium in this episode of the Destination Marketing Podcast. Join him and Frank Geers, president and CEO of American Cornhole, to talk about how destinations can stand out when they are trying to attract events to their community. "We are looking for long-term partnerships — cities and destinations that want to grow with us. Once you work with us and we figure out a month of the year that works in your system and in ours, if you want to bring us back year in and year out we are open-armed and want that to happen." -Frank Geers American Cornhole Sports ETA Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

This week on the Destination Marketing Podcast, Adam is joined by 2021 Sports ETA Hall of Fame inductee Denny Gann. Listen to hear his advice on how to bring profitable sports events to your destination as well as how to know what kinds of events are a good fit for your community. "Always design your events with athletic eyes. Look at it through John Brown's eyes if you want to sell it to John Brown. Look at it as the soccer player. What's he going to see? What is the volleyball player going to do? Structure your event for that athlete and the rest will follow." -Denny Gann Explore Sioux City Denny Gann Hall of Fame Tourism Media Mayhem Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

This week on the Destination Marketing Podcast, Adam is joined by David Galbaugh, Vice President of Sports Sales & Marketing at Greater Birmingham CVB. Listen to learn how his destination has been preparing to host the 2022 World Games and how they predict that this huge event will impact their destination. "Do your due diligence and make sure that the event is a good fit for your community, and then go out and put your heart and soul into it. Every destination is special and every destination has what it takes to bring in multiple events if you make sure it's a good fit." -David Galbaugh Visit Birmingham Birmingham Sports 2022 World Games Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.

In this episode of the Destination Marketing Podcast, Adam is joined by Brook Jung, Executive Director of Visit Hopkinsville and President of Team Kentucky. They chat about what it’s like to be part of Team Kentucky and how small DMOs can benefit by collaborating with each other. "Give folks organic information about what is true and authentic to your destination, because that is appealing and it is going to appeal to an events rights holder. It may take a little bit of time to find the perfect fit, but be true to yourself and your destination." -Brook Jung Follow the Destination Marketing Podcast on social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to our newsletter! The Destination Marketing Podcast is a part of the Destination Marketing Podcast Network. It is hosted by Adam Stoker and produced by Relic. If you are interested in any of Relic’s services,  please email adam@relicagency.com or visit www.relicagency.com.  To learn more about the Destination Marketing Podcast Network and to listen to our other shows, please visit www.thedmpn.com. Email adam@relicagency.com with any inquiries regarding the network.