Author: Donna Joy

Donna Joy ~ A retired Entrepeneur, Creator, Business owner, Culinary Artist, Chef & Chief Operating Disruptor. Donna Joy is a continuous entrepreneur, who started in the Biotech, and medical field. She was blessed to be part of a team that developed life-saving biological products for implantation in Switzerland. Donna enjoys sharing information her research, data driven trackers, culinary images, methods and recipes. ~ enjoy~ ♥ Donna Joy

Defining Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO)

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Destination marketing organizations are generally tied to the government and typically funded through tourism taxes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “DMOs are known as tourist boards, tourism authorities or “Convention and Visitors Bureaux”.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_marketing_organization Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) Government designation, the state, region, county, and municipality promoting the government’s location to tourists. The designation (municipality…

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Social Media

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Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Nextdoor are ways that people socialize today. Some people hate it, some love it. As in all media types, there are pros and consI got involved years ago and used it as a way to market my business long before the hype began. Marketing my business did great on Facebook. I…

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Defining DMO & DMC meanings

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Destination marketing organizations are generally tied to the government and typically funded through tourism taxes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “DMOs are known as tourist boards, tourism authorities or “Convention and Visitors Bureaux”.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_marketing_organization What is a Destination Marketing Organization (DMO)? Government designation, the state, region, county, or municipality promoting it as government designation for…

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Sedona Cultural Park

Sedona Cultural Park Inc. Background

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Sometimes things get lost in time and the story changes. After years of hearing many different stories, I deeply studied the historical data-driven documents on the Sedona Cultural Park. One level leads the path to another level of source documentation to tell the story. While I did have a collection of records that I had…

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Curiosity

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What is Curiosity? According to curiosity Merriam-webster.com it is the desire to know. I personally love Walt Disney’s Quote on curious and curiosity: We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney With everyone having a different opinion, How does…

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Local Government Benchmarking

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Benchmarking is used throughout many industries as method to improve the quality and efficiency. Methodology benchmarking information can then be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes including municipalities. Policy problems cannot be solved when we don’t identify the metrics, process of the policy that created the policy issues. Some Resources that provide Cities…

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Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP)

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What does it mean to be an Accredited with a Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP)? This is a business association “Destination Marketing Association International” To become accredited, a destination organization must first be a Member of Destination International. Destination Marketing Association International ( DMAI ) is a non-governmental organization, business association NTEE Code Mutual/Membership Benefit…

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