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Tourisme Montréal also had a fundamental, unifying role to play with the various stakeholders involved in the city's tourism activities. The aim was not only to entice Montrealers to spend time in their city as tourists, but also to encourage them to participate in their city's economic revival by promoting local businesses.

For Montrealers to fall in love with their city again, we had to identify what would pique their interest, knowing that these interests diverge from those of international tourists or the rest of Canadians. The pandemic situation and ever-changing health regulations demanded total agility, as access to activities changed week by week. We had to be ready to act and readjust our strategies in real time.

So we created our own database, integrating data from various sources to discover Montrealers' favorite activities in real time. This allowed us to adjust our offer and ads live!

Since we didn't have any information on Montrealers, we set up our own data feed to understand and track their various interests. In this way, we were able to identify in real time which activities to promote in our ads. By integrating and ranking real-time search queries with our database, we were able to identify the most sought-after activities in the city and highlight the most promising experiences for Montrealers. Four areas of interest stood out: urban wellness, culture, gastronomy and urban entertainment. We coupled this knowledge with the activities offered by our tourism partners to create our various activity passports.

Once we'd identified the most interesting activities, the next step was to identify the Montrealers most likely to participate in the city's economic recovery. Because we didn't have any precise indications, we initially adopted a very inclusive audience strategy based on different profiles: gourmets, sports enthusiasts, families, adventurous profiles...

To go further in understanding our audiences, we created the Relaunching Montreal Interest Index, an index automatically connected to our dashboard that allows us to monitor audience learning in real time. It helped us identify typical portraits of Montrealers who were most receptive to our messages. More than 35 audiences were built after connecting the index, which flowed according to the receptivity of the different audiences, in real time. This way, we could adjust our investments according to the most qualified and relevant audiences.