Comments on: Local talent http://quitealone.com/2010/03/17/local-talent/ "To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world" – Freya Stark Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthew Teller http://quitealone.com/2010/03/17/local-talent/#comment-301 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:29:36 +0000 http://quitealone.com/?p=374#comment-301 Thanks, Annabel – great point. There’s another example: Switzerland. A federal country, composed of individual statelets with considerable local and regional autonomy, bound together into a single nation despite four different languages and huge variations in local culture, identity, religion and outlook – yet they have a single body, Switzerland Tourism, which very successfully promotes the whole country abroad.

I don’t think there’s “ignorance in the UAE about the simple fact that together we are stronger” – it’s more that the federal situation in the UAE has arisen organically and very rapidly, without much planning or design. Consequently, tourism promotion reflects internal divisions rather than marketing the whole country. Up to now, the focus (and the pride) have all been inward-looking. There’s been something of a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude towards how visitors – and outsiders of all kinds – might view the place, fuelled of course by money.

That, it seems, is changing…

]]> By: Annabel http://quitealone.com/2010/03/17/local-talent/#comment-300 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:37:13 +0000 http://quitealone.com/?p=374#comment-300 Another example of excellent regional tourism marketing, with each country’s individual strategy is the Caribbean. Under the umbrella of the CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organisation) the entire region benefits. And each island has very strong identity, cultures and national pride.

Why is there such ignorance in the UAE about the simple fact that together we are stronger?

]]> By: Matthew Teller http://quitealone.com/2010/03/17/local-talent/#comment-289 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:28:30 +0000 http://quitealone.com/?p=374#comment-289 Er, thanks, Cruella – really nice of you to leave such a considered, thoughtful response.

I quite liked Oklahoma. Great eggs in Tulsa.

]]> By: Cruella http://quitealone.com/2010/03/17/local-talent/#comment-288 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:23:09 +0000 http://quitealone.com/?p=374#comment-288 Have you been to Oklahoma? Why would anyone want to visit there? And why would the US want a national tourism office? It’s a federal system. The federal government is too big as it is.

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