SLIDE 1
TOP TIPS AS IDENTIFIED BY YOU
DAY 1 – Bidding, Value Chain, Markets (international association, incentives)
- Collaborate with all parties when bidding (CVB, PCO, supplier etc)
- Understand the customer – spend more time to understand their objectives
- Undertake deep research about the client
- Ensure authenticity of the destination
- Work as one destination, integrating all partners/stakeholders to get the business to Sri Lanka, rather
than creating the competition beforehand
- Content to be constantly updated
- Look at the buyer’s perception on a destination
- Bidding process – remember 3 As, 3 Ps 3 Fs, RFP & RFI
- Consider the Value Chain
- Request information rather than just assuming
- Faroe Islands promotion – how they created awareness
- Rather than sending bulk proposals always customise them.
- Co-operation and Co-opetition
- Never lose, I will win or learn
- Don’t make claims you cannot justify, always prove them