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Zartico Travel Outlook

Summer Travel Outlook 2025

Zartico is sharing an updated set of top recommendations to help destination leaders navigate peak summer season effectively. 

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May 2025 Lodging Update

The forward looking indicators, based on 13 million hotel rooms and short-term vacation rentals, provide signals to consider when optimizing your summer marketing plans.

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Spring Travel Outlook 2025

If you’re feeling a sense of unease about what the upcoming travel season may bring, you’re not alone. 

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What is Data Science? Making Meaning From Big Data

When we talk about analytics, we often talk about “data science.” More than just a buzzword, data science is an important step in transforming the raw ingredients of massive datasets into fully-baked, usable insights.

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Good Marketing Isn’t Enough, But Great Marketing Is Within Reach

If your community is facing capacity and crowding issues, if your small businesses are struggling to make it through the winter, or if there are parts of your destination that have potential but aren’t yet great tourist destinations — you have to be a great destination marketer. Good alone won’t cut it.

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5 Data Points Every Destination Should Share With Stakeholders

Sharing data draws attention to the destination organization’s efforts to drive quality visitation and create positive community impact. But with so much available, it can be challenging to know where to start.

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Case Study Presentations

Data-Driven 2024 Content Planning

Destination Madison leveraged Zartico to revamp its content marketing strategy with data-led insights targeting its campaigns to increase quality visits. 

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Cottonwood Canyons Custom Analysis

As a result of visitor and resident experience with capacity on the mountains, Visit Salt Lake used data to create a public/private partnership to address transportation and improve visitor/resident sentiment. **This client story was completed as a custom Zartico analysis.**


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Spring Mountain Biking Campaign

Putnam County CVB used ZDOS data to create a mountain biking campaign that brought in a new category of visitors from untapped markets on a limited budget.

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Focus on Rural Communities

The state of Tennessee worked with its distressed and at-risk rural counties to find ways for tourism to help lift the communities.

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Integrated Brand Awareness Campaign

Visit Lake Charles, in partnership with Zartico, identified Austin as an opportunity market and launched a data-led integrated marketing campaign to target the area.

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Two-Pronged Holiday Campaign

CRVA used data to develop a holiday campaign that inspired locals to stay in Charlotte during the holiday season and become hosts. The campaign also invited relatives of residents to become guests during the holiday season.


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Illuminating Seasonal Impacts

Board members needed insight into Visit Lake Tahoe’s strategy shift due to a stall in winter storms and the winter travel season.


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Driving Off Season Demand

Baton Rouge needed to drive visitation in their need period of December. They used ZDOS to find an underutilized location with proximity to hotels and retail to plan a holiday lights event.  


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Client Testimonials

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“Our marketing team harnesses ZDOS insights to develop visitor profiles and refine our strategies for quality visits. With this data-driven approach, we enhance our marketing effectiveness, increase our ROI, and clearly communicate our positive impact on the local community."

Timothy P. Bush, CDME, TMP, CDTP,

Chief Marketing Officer

Visit Lake Charles

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“The (ZDOS) platform has been invaluable to helping us track the effectiveness of our rebrand, allowing us to see new markets and visitor behavior that allows us to better tailor our ads.”

Terri Reifstec

Vice President of Marketing

Experience Champaign-Urbana

Evansville

“The data is not only painting the picture of what our tourism visitation looks like, but where its impact truly is, and what the trickle-down effect of that could be, as we try to move our community and our region forward.”

Alexis Berggren
President & CEO
Explore Evansville

Waco

"Most research tells you if something worked. Zartico’s Lodging Data, specifically the pacing insights, tells you if it’s working, giving you time to impact change if necessary."

Dan Quandt,

Director of Tourism & Conventions

Waco Convention & Visitors Bureau

Alaska

"The team is easy to work with and communication is on point. Deliverables are on time and as promised."

Wendy Swenson

Director of Tourism Marketing

Alaska Travel Industry Association

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"Zartico has given me the tools I need to effectively advocate on behalf of the community, making what would be a very difficult task a thousand times easier."

Kelli Steele

Executive Director

Putnam County CVB

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"I access Zartico's Destination Operating System in real-time during board meetings. By analyzing data on the spot and immediately addressing our director's questions or concerns, I can deliver clear insights that directly inform our destination management and marketing strategies. This reassures the board that our decisions are data-driven, exemplifies our commitment to transparency, and builds trust with our stakeholders."

Stuart Maas

Senior Director of Marketing & Business Development

Visit Lake Tahoe

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"Zartico has transformed recently in the best way. We love the ZDOS platform improvements—they’ve been a huge boost for the West Volusia Tourism office, helping us enhance our marketing and better understand tourism's impact on our 14 communities. It’s refreshing to work with a company that evolves its product to meet client needs and push the industry forward!"

Georgia Turner

Executive Director

West Volusia Tourism Bureau

Charlston

“Everybody wants to talk about economic impact, but I talk about community impact as well. We get addicted to that big number — and we’re as guilty of it here as anybody — but I’m trying to change the narrative.

This [ZDOS® report] actually helps me a great deal because we can show that our visitor spending was up 22% but our visitor share was down. That means locals were out enjoying the event too — and they’re also spending money, which is not calculated into that visitor spend figure.”

Tim Brady
President & CEO
Charleston WV CVB