Projects - Donna Joy

Defining Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO)

Posted on February 5, 2023January 17, 2024 by Donna Joy

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…

Is the City of Sedona a member of ICLEI?

Posted on February 1, 2023September 18, 2023 by Donna Joy

ICLEI – International Council for Local Environmental Initiativesis an international non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable development. What is ICLEI ? International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICLEI ICLEI is a democratic organization led by the ICLEI Council and the Global Executive Committee (GexCom), two groups of local leaders elected by ICLEI Members every three years….

Defining DMO & DMC meanings

Posted on January 23, 2023September 22, 2023 by Donna Joy

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…

Local Government Benchmarking

Posted on January 13, 2023September 23, 2023 by Donna Joy

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…

Destination Marketing Programs | Overview & City of Scottsdale

Posted on January 13, 2023April 1, 2023 by Donna Joy

Destination Marketing Programs: City of Scottsdale, Experience Scottsdale & Sedona Chamber of Commerce. Overview & City of Scottsdale Overview Benchmarking peer cities bring insight to the details, disclosing the road maps Cities follow. Destination Marketing isn’t used by all cities and towns. Why? How and when is it used at a government level? Benchmarking is…

Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP)

Posted on January 12, 2023September 16, 2023 by Donna Joy

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…

Data Driven Snapshot Sedona Tourism Management

Posted on January 10, 2023September 22, 2023 by Donna Joy

There is a lot to learn from performance based and data driven methodology. What we have learned from the Tourism Government Models DMO Benchmark that governments use data-driven strategies to develop Tourism policies and programs in a systematic approach to analyze the data and removing any unseen biases, conflicts of interest or assumptions. A data-driven…

Tourism Data & Stats Resources

Posted on January 6, 2023September 16, 2023 by Donna Joy

Tourism data and stat collections show us how the tourism industry is performing. Using data, stats and custom reports from research companies are essential to governments or private organizations. Data collections, databases collected from expert research companies are cost effective and efficient. Both Public and Private sectors rely on these companies. The Arizona Office of…

Arizona Office of Tourism

Posted on January 5, 2023September 16, 2023 by Donna Joy

Arizona Office of Tourism is the state’s expert for Tourism. It is extremely impressive. Robust and a great resource. The Arizona Office of Tourism has two websites. AOT website for Tourism marketing is Visit Arizona AOT website for Tourism Partners, Arizona Office of Tourism website includes marketing & branding opportunities, data, stats, resources, reports, programs…

AZ Sports & Tourism Authority, ARS 5-802 Formation of Authority

Posted on January 5, 2023September 16, 2023 by Donna Joy

A.R.S. § 5-802 Formation of Authority 5-802. Formation of authorityA. The tourism and sports authority is established. The boundaries of the authority are the boundaries of any county that has a population of more than two million persons.B. The authority is a corporate and political body and, except as otherwise limited, modified or provided by this…