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AGENCY: Fallon, Minneapolis
Client: The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism
Brand: The Islands of the Bahamas
Category: Service brand
Campaign Title: “Bahamavention”
Planners: Seth Gaffney, Aki Spicer
No category is more rife with conventions than destination advertising—conventions that, according to the planners at Fallon, don’t work. Not only do these conventions do little to differentiate one sun, sea and sand destination from another, they also do little to entice us to take a break from our everyday lives.
The thinking in this paper was simple and powerful: The problem is not that people don’t believe in the unique attributes of the Bahamas, but that they find it increasingly difficult to take a vacation in the first place.
“The paper illustrates a solid consumer insight that Americans feel like they are vacation-deprived [and an] unconventional strategic approach.
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