The slim book ‘Who Moved my Cheese’ was first written in 1998. I had heard the phrase used before, but never read the book until about 10 years ago. One of my longtime readers, Margo DeRouchie from Pennslyvania’s Americana Region, took the time to write and suggest that Who Moved my Cheese was also a […]
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2020 has thrown our industry into disarray. Businesses are closed, people have lost jobs and the recovery looks slow at best. It is hard to wrap your head around what to do since none of us have ever been through anything like this. Past experience is no predictor of future success at this point. So
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Yay! The Online Tourism Training Program is one year old this month. I began offering this program when I saw a need for DMOs to provide training to their partners. One of my first DMO clients for this program said “Some of our members have a limited understanding of the tourism market, but we can’t
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Like many of you, I have been attending webinars every week on topics for our post Covid world. Yesterday I attended one sponsored by U.S. Travel’s National Council of Attractions ( I am a former board member). The presentation included a report by Douglas Quimby of Arival with survey results from tourism professionals. There was
Delegation is the #1 Skill you need to learn this year Read More »
Are you a Goal Setter? Do you have a list of what you want to accomplish, whether it is a Bucket list for travel, sales and business goals, or goals for your personal life? And how is that going this year? I spend time around my birthday every year setting goals for the following year.
Goal Setting in 2020 requires a new set of tools Read More »
Typically we are all very busy at this time of year and gearing up by hiring summer staff, welcoming guests, and filling our bank accounts. 2020 is going to be different. Many of you are starting to open in a new way, or at least setting plans in motion. Some of you are still waiting.
Two books for Tourism Pros to read during summer 2020 Read More »
Most of us in the tourism industry enjoy being around other people and look forward to the times we can see our friends and colleagues in person at trade shows, meetings or on sales calls. But in the time of Covid, we are being told to stay apart as much as possible. Many of us
Here’s a way to stay in touch while we are all apart💻😁 Read More »
We are starting to take our first tentative steps back to a “Next New Normal”. Some of you are in endless meetings trying to figure out what this might mean for your business, and some of you are waiting to be called back to work. There is a large group of my readers who are
Start using these words in your Post-Covid planning Read More »
When our lives started turning upside down last month, I decided that we would all benefit from some 5 Day Challenges. We would be able to gain a skill, find some focus and get to know some other tourism pros. The Linkedin Challenge was a few weeks back and I am still hearing from those
Have you heard of Linkedin’s Social Selling Index? Hows yours?🤔 Read More »
Talk about a blog post I never thought I would need to write! I have given up ‘batching my content’ and writing 5- 6 posts in advance to save time and effort. Our world is changing so rapidly that no topic or trend has stayed the same week to week. I just listened to a
People are getting laid off and let go – make sure you have a way to stay in touch Read More »
