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Who do they think they are?
This month's TMI blogger - Blue Sail director Amanda Shepherd FTMI - asks whether destination marketers really understand what makes the Baby Boom generation tick
Date: 27th July 2015
Destination Slogans: Silver Bullet or Meaningless Puff?
Virginia “is For Loversâ€, Egypt is “Where it All Beginsâ€, and Dubai is “Definitely Dubaiâ€. This month's TMI blogger, Tom Buncle FTMI, explores how much impact destination slogans truly have.
Date: 1st July 2015
Destinations: socially adept or socially inept?
This month's TMI blogger, Jackie Ellis, wonders whether DMOs really 'get' social media, or whether they fail to embrace it fully because of fears of losing control of the message
Date: 22nd May 2015
Funding announcements - unalloyed good news for all?
In the run up to the general election Tim Manson MTMI ponders the upsides and downsides of recent funding announcements:£18m extra money for promotion of some destinations = good; not taking displacement factor into account = not so good
Date: 28th April 2015
Disjointed government and the law of unintended consequences
The restriction on taking children out of school in term time, introduced in Sept 2013, is impacting on the domestic tourism industry. Robin Barker FTMI gives a personal view on unintended consequences in this month's blog post
Date: 24th March 2015
