European Cities Marketing
European Cities Marketing (ECM) is an association of tourism offices and convention experts of European cities. It was founded in 1991 in Heidelberg, Germany, on the initiative of French and German city tourism managers under the name FOTVE - Fédération des Offices de Tourisme des Villes Européennes / FECTO - Federation of European Cities' Tourist Offices. Later using the brand European Cities Tourism (ECT), the association in 2006/2007 merged with the European Federation of Conference Towns (EFCT), since then working as European Cities Marketing. Today it is a network of 120 cities in all parts of Europe, using the services of two forums: the tourism forum dealing with city tourism in general, and the convention forum for congresses and the meetings industry. Each forum is headed by an ECM vice president.
ECM is a partner of the European Travel Commission's Market Intelligence Committee,[1] and of TourMIS (Touristic Marketing Information Service), a web-based tourism statistics tool fed with tourism results by national and city tourist offices.[2] ECM's working language is English. The ECM office is located in Dijon, France, since the foundation of the association. The current president since 2013 is Ignacio de Délas, tourism director of the city of Barcelona.
ECM assists cities to broaden their international tourism marketing contacts. An example of this work is the "Win with the Lion“ project run in Lviv, Ukraine.[3]
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- ↑ Mentioned on ETC's website
- ↑ TourMIS homepage
- ↑ Website of the Tourism Forum in Lviv 2013, in Ukrainian language
