Insights & Strategy
Who Sells a City? Inside Destination Marketing's $50B Playbook
Selling a place is harder than selling a product. Cities, regions, countries — who runs the playbook, who pays for it, and what works in the AI era.
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Tourism
Communications States
Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, and Longboat Key: The Gulf Coast Florida Built Quietly
The Gulf Coast is Florida's quietest growth story — Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, and Longboat Key. Inside the migration, tourism, and PR market behind it.
PR, AI & Communications News
Florida's Communications State: $130B Tourism, 700K Migrants
23M residents, 142M visitors, $1.6T economy, 700K net migration, sustained political intensity, the Disney conflict, hurricane response architecture, and the insurance market reset. The Florida Communications State at full specification.
Communications States
Nevada's Communications State: Vegas, $80B, the Gaming Reset
Nevada is a $230B economy organized around one 4.2-mile stretch of asphalt and the most disciplined destination-marketing operation in the U.S. The EPR Communications State profile.
Travel
Tourism PR in the Answer-Engine Era: How Destinations Win Inside ChatGPT
Tourism PR in 2026 is the work of becoming the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The destination playbook for the answer-engine era — Citation Share scoring, the 12-month rebuild, and crisis communications when the first responder is an LLM.
AI Visibility
IndiGo Beats Taj Hotels in India's First Travel Citation Share Index
Everything-PR measured 25 Indian travel and tourism brands across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. IndiGo ranked No. 1. Airlines led every category.
Travel
Romania and the Nation-Brand Discipline: Why the Carpathian Garden Campaign Was Always Going to Stall
Romania spent nearly €1 million on a tourism brand strategy from a Spanish agency in 2010. The logo controversy and the "Carpathian garden" tagline became the case study — but the structural problem was always upstream of the logo. The EPR analysis of what nation-brand work actually requires.