Common Marketing Budgets for Medium Sized DMOs
Of the DMOs we surveyed, the average percentage medium-sized DMOs’ (with budgets between $151k – $450k) marketing budgets received from the total budget was 23%. Here’s what they said about the digital tactics they’re using:

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