Tourism Central Coast: From the couch to the Coast – Shifting perception for unprecedented ROI

Tourism Central Coast, a tourism operator for the Central Coast in New South Wales, increased visits to the Coast by launching a series of TVCs that used a snow dome device to show little adventures.

Executive Summary

The Central Coast, NSW. If you lived in Sydney in 2017 chances are you had nothing good to say about it. We developed a broad marketing initiative that transformed the Central Coast from Central Bogan to "Tourism Boom"1in just six months. How did we change perceptions so dramatically? Using digital media as an innovative research tool, we created our own 1stparty data and empirically tested positionings. Data-driven insights underpinned a campaign that generated $46M in additional tourism. This paper shows how using data in new ways delivered the Coast's highest-ever tourism numbers and a...

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