Tourism Australia CMO Susan Coghill: Search volumes up 160%; Times Square, Piccadilly Circus billboards spearhead Oz ad blitz; Local CX, unique ID trial expands to UK, Singapore for post-cookie travel crunch

With the largest social media following in the world as a tourism destination – 17 million – an international advertising blitz in the wings and the expansion offshore of a new customer experience (CX) and post-cookie ID platform trial, Tourism Australia’s CMO Susan Coghill and team have a billion dollar fight on their hands. How do you attract tourists, competing against governments the world over throwing everything at kickstarting decimated tourist economies – and travellers eschewing long-haul flights? TA has a potential head start on first party data-driven CX designed to pass muster in a post-privacy, post-cookie world but it’s got to build and convert intent first. There’s $60 billion at stake for the Australian economy, and hundreds of thousands of livelihoods in every state counting on Tourism Australia to pull every lever at its disposal. The early indications are positive. CMO Susan Coghill unpacks the early roadmap.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.