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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. We find that brand homes are most effective in combination with other communication and content platforms as part of a holistic marketing strategy.

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The Gulf Spill: BP Still Doesn’t Get It

In the CEO Afterlife

More recently, the BP-sponsored Gulf Coast tourism TV campaign has implied that everything is back to normal. Gulf of Mexico response” has 16 posts since the beginning of 2011; the six most recent are all about legal rulings or settlements or culpability. No doubt, substantial reparative progress has been made.