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Wine Tourism and Winery Marketing

This advisory practice is becoming a more active area of assistance to DCG clients.

Client ProfilesVineyard

  • Wineries/tasting centers
  • Urban and resort hotels and restaurants
  • Other wine tourism service organizations
  • State and provincial wine commissions/boards/institutes/councils
  • Convention & visitors bureaus
  • Chambers of commerce
  • State and provincial tourism departments/commissions/agencies
  • Municipalities and regional/county governments

Practice Development

  • Over 15 years combined research, training and advisory experience in USA, Canada, UK and Australia
  • Assistance to various state wine commissions/councils, winery associations and wineries in the USA
  • Program coordinators/speakers at various wine tourism conferences, symposiums, workshops and forums
  • Developers of the first practitioner course on Wine Destination Marketing and Management
  • Authors of various tourism, hospitality and wine tourism articles

Client Deliverables

  • Wine destination visioning
  • State/provincial and regional wine tourism strategy and plan 
  • Wine destination partnership development
  • Destination management organization wine tourism assessment
  • Wine visitor exit survey
  • Winery business planning 
  • Winery market/economic feasibility study
  • Winery tourism audit 
  • Winery marketing planning 
  • Winery communications planning
  • Wine tourism promotional planning
  • Accommodation/foodservice wine tourism packaging and programming
  • Wine tourism electronic marketing analysis

Representative Assignments

  • Wine Destination Marketing and Management Course Development (Indiana, 2002)
  • Washington Wine Tourism Task Force Strategic Planning (Washington State, 2001)
  • Winery Tourism Product Standards and Assessment Form (Indiana, 2001)
  • Black Star Winery Marketing and Business Planning (Michigan, 2000)
  • Michigan Winery Association Formation (Michigan, 2000)
  • International Overview of Wine Tourism Marketing and Development Activities (Washington State, 1998/1999)

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