1. Are DMOs relevant in the digital age?
Jonathan Fauver
jon@trekksoft.com | @jonfauver | www.trekksoft.com
CEO and Co-Founder, TrekkSoft, Switzerland
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3. Why are we interested in DMOs
57%
16%
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EXPERIENCES ARE A VITAL PART OF THEIR STRATEGY
PROVIDERS OFFER ONLINE BOOKING GLOBALLY
DMO OFFERS REAL-TIME BOOKING FOR EXPERIENCES
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Don’t expect conclusive answers
Different DMOs are at different stages
Questions to consider to inspire evolution
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6. 1800 1900 Internet Mobile1950
Driver: Advancement of transportation Driver: Advancement of technology
Evolution of DMOs
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7. Mobile-driven change in consumer booking habits
35 % of travellers use a mobile device more
on vacation than they do at home
(Expedia/Egencia, 2016)
40% of U.S. travel site visits come from mobile
but the time spent browsing those sites has
shrunk by 5% (Think with Google, 2016)
Change in traveler behavior
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11. TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
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NATIONAL
REGIONAL
LOCAL
PRIVATE PUBLIC
8%
44%
48%
80%20%
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12. TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
43%
57%
Offline Online
What % of your program budget do you spend on
online/digital activities compared to offline activities?
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13. TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
57
%
43
%
No Yes
69
%
31
%
74
%
26
%
83
%
17
%
ACTIVITIES
ACCOMMODATION
PACKAGES RESTAURANTS
What is bookable on your website?
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TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Which part of the travel customer journey is most important?
20%
48%
10%
13%
10%
Dreaming
Planning
Booking
Experiencing
Sharing
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11%
13%
11%
11%
11%
18%
14%
Staying up-to-date with new technology
Knowing how to market experiences digitally
Competing with Google, OTAs and metasearch sites
Education of stakeholders in the destination
Budget and funding
Sourcing relevant content
Lack of time
Staying relevant to the customer
TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
26%
71%
Not very much
Some effort
A lot of effort
What will be the main challenge to your digital strategy in 2017?
How much effort do you feel is required to keep your organization
relevant in the digital age?
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16. ACCOMMODATION
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57%
73% 27%
MARKETING SPEND
EXPERIENCES ACCOMMODATION
EXPERIENCES ARE A VITAL PART OF THEIR STRATEGY
ABILITY TO BOOK ON THE WEBSITE IN REAL-TIME
EXPERIENCES
57%16%
TrekkSoft research, 2017.
TrekkSoft research results
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
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17. Key takeaways to stay relevant
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3 Content is king
Products
Education CONTENT
PRODUCT
EDUCATION OF SUPPLIERS
TECHNOLOGY
IS THE
ENABLER
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18. “Our role is to be the digital mentors in
the industry”
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“The most important task of DMOs is
educating and consulting with their
members to help them stay up to date:
helping them get on mobile, help them get
their information displayed in the right
way on the right sites, prioritising agility to
bring change to a region.”
Philippe Ries, Industry leader, Travel, Google
Education of suppliers
Katrine Mosfjeld, Visit Oslo
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Products
“Our organizations are best positioned to
track and evaluate trends to ensure that
what we offer is what visitors want”
“Let’s not talk about tourism, tourism is the
effect. Let’s first focus on what it is really
about”
Peter Romer Hansen, Romer Agency
Jennifer Wesselhof, CEO Visit Sedona
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“Oslo as a destination is more important
than Visit Oslo the organization”
“Consumers market the destination more
effectively than the organization”
Peter Romer Hansen, Romer Agency
Katrine Mosfjeld, Visit Oslo
Content is king
24. Case study: Le Voyage à Nantes
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“Let’s not talk about tourism, tourism is the effect, let’s focus on what it is really about”
#LVAN
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• Track content distribution
• Content-specific API
Content first strategy
27. They created a better user
experience and disrupted the
industry by controlling the
information flow.
Travellers consider their smartphones to
be the single most indispensable item
they carry with them when they travel
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Control of information flow
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Are DMOs Relevant in a Digital Age?
Conclusion
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Are DMOs Digitally Relevant?
Education and development to lift up the region
Use technology where it adds value
32. Thank you!
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- Peter Romer Hansen - Lucy Fuggle, Mattias Maraczi and Maarten Camerlynck