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March 31, 2021

Environmental Sustainability in Action – And How You Can Take Part in Your Business

As stakeholders in the regional tourism landscape, we’re actively encouraging people to #ShopLocal. We want our visitors to invest in our community, whether they live here or are travelling from outside of our borders. Happily, visitors are responding en masse,…
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March 19, 2021

CCT’s Tourism Story Through Data – Part One: Annual Growth (2018-2020)

As Tourism Professionals, at some point in our careers we have all been asked the same question, “How is Tourism doing?” From an outsider’s perspective, it sounds like a simple question. However, the answer is much more complex since tourism…
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February 19, 2021

Attracting Staycationers: Heads In Beds Just Isn’t Enough

Every quarter Central Counties Tourism receives a hotel report with stats on occupancy levels, room rates, room supply and demand, and year-over-year comparisons. As you would expect, right now the line isn’t climbing. However, there is a promising story in…
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December 21, 2020

Understanding CCT Visitor Audiences: Family Fun Segment

We all know that understanding your audience is key to effectively market your business. With the use of postal code data we identify and analyze visitors to the region and are able to categorize them into specific segments based on…
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December 16, 2020

November research shows who’s ready to visit Central Counties and when

As we start to clearly see the light at the end of this dark COVID-19 tunnel. We all want to know how soon our visitors will come back to our businesses and what type of visitors we can expect to…
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Hibernate in Style
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November 19, 2020

Eight Pro Tips for Social Media

Building a brand using social media may feel like a massive undertaking with all of the platforms available to you for your business. I’m here to tell you that it’s now easier than ever to use social media to connect…
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October 27, 2020

Free Research Available!

It has been seven months since our world has drastically shifted, particularly within the tourism industry, and we know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. However, as we inch closer towards that light, we ask…
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September 21, 2020

Do Your Visitors Drink Alcohol?

Do you want to know more about the alcohol consumption of your visitors? If so, what do you need to know and what can you tell us about your visitors? These questions are not meant to be rhetorical at all,…
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August 31, 2020

New Visitor Segmentation!

Since 2017, Central Counties has been collecting postal codes from its various stakeholders and different festivals/events, all to have a thorough understanding of its visitation to both to the stakeholders and the region. This detailed analysis has been done with…
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Pickering Museum
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August 19, 2020

Partnership at Work – Pickering Museum Village’s Haunted Ghost Drive-Thru Tour

At Central Counties Tourism, we are always saying to you, our stakeholders, “Let’s work together.” That is what we are here for, it is what we think about and work towards every day. Let’s find a way to make you…
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Environics Analytics
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May 29, 2020

Trends in Visitation & Other Research Links

In addition to our website’s COVID-19 section, and TIAO’s COVID-19 Survey Results (including Survey #5), we would like to share with you a few other sources of information that we follow and track. Environics Analytics has created a free public…
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Data
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February 28, 2020

Data – How Useful is it?

It’s useful for absolutely everything! By having access to accurate data, there are an infinite amount of possibilities of its application. Data will help add weight to your business plan; it will identify your target markets, assist in creating marketing…
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