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AI for Tourism Boards & DMOs

For the organizations that promote Hawaiʻi's destinations — we aggregate your data, automate your reporting, and build AI assistants for your team, so you can win funding, run campaigns, and lift the local businesses you exist to support.

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Your World

The problems we hear every week

  • Funding cases built on stale dataCouncils and legislators want current evidence. Your numbers live in last quarter's PDFs, scattered across agencies and spreadsheets.
  • Reporting that consumes the teamBoard packets, legislative updates, and stakeholder reports assembled by hand from a dozen sources — every single cycle.
  • Visitor questions at destination scaleThousands of the same questions across web, phone, email, and social — more than any visitor-center team can answer.
  • Institutional knowledge in silosResearch, campaign history, and partner relationships living in individual staff — and lost with every transition.
  • Partner & fundraising work in spreadsheetsSponsors, collaborations, and member businesses tracked by hand. Follow-ups slip; opportunities quietly die.
  • Campaign spend that's hard to defendPromotion dollars go out. Attribution back to visitor behavior rarely comes back.

With Lokal Media

What changes

  • A live picture of your destinationVisitor, campaign, and partner data aggregated and monitored continuously.
  • Reports that write themselvesBoard packets and funding cases generated from live data, on schedule.
  • A 24/7 multilingual conciergeAI chat and voice answering visitors — grounded in official information.
  • Assistants for the real workloadDrafting, research, and coordination handled alongside your team.
  • Fundraising & partnerships, systematizedPipelines, collabs, and member promotion that never drop a follow-up.
  • One operating systemAll of it managed in one place your whole organization can ask.

How We Help

Six systems for a modern destination organization

Built around the work you actually do: winning funding, promoting the destination, and supporting the businesses behind it.

Data

Data aggregation & always-on monitoring

Funding follows evidence. We pull your scattered sources — visitor statistics, campaign analytics, partner numbers, surveys — into one live, defensible picture of your destination.

  • Arrivals, occupancy, and spending indicators in one dashboard
  • Campaign performance unified across channels and agencies
  • Destination mentions and sentiment monitored continuously
  • Member and partner business data rolled up in one place
  • Alerts when a trend moves — before the quarterly report
Funding

Reporting that wins budgets

Your funding case is only as strong as your reporting. Automated board packets, legislative updates, and stakeholder reports — generated from live data, on schedule, defensible line by line.

  • Board and legislative reports assembled automatically
  • Campaign ROI attribution your funders can interrogate
  • Economic-impact summaries for grant and budget cycles
  • Data-backed support for funding applications and renewals
  • "What happened in Q2?" answered in seconds, with sources
Assistants

AI teammates for a lean staff

Small team, destination-sized mandate. Assistants grounded in your organization's knowledge take on the drafting, research, and coordination that eat your week.

  • First drafts of press releases, newsletters, and campaign briefs
  • Research memos and competitive destination scans
  • Grant and RFP drafting support
  • Meeting summaries and follow-up tracking
  • Institutional memory preserved through staff and board turnover
Visitors

AI chat & voice for the destination

An always-on destination concierge — on your website, social channels, and phone line — answering visitor questions with official information, in the languages your visitors speak.

  • 24/7 web and social chat grounded in official destination info
  • An AI voice line for visitor information calls
  • Multilingual from day one
  • Routes visitors to member and local businesses
  • Every question logged — a live map of what visitors actually want
Community

Fundraising, collaborations & local business promotion

The work between campaigns — sponsors, partners, member businesses — is where a board creates local value. We systematize it so nothing slips.

  • Sponsor and donor pipelines with automated follow-up
  • Partner collaboration campaigns coordinated end-to-end
  • Member business promotion — features, spotlights, co-op programs
  • Event promotion workflows across every channel
  • Results tracked and reported back to every partner
Foundation

A destination operating system

Data, reports, campaigns, and partnerships — managed in one place your whole team can ask. Every assistant and automation above runs on this core.

  • Organizational knowledge core: research, reports, campaign history
  • Analytics, CRM, and campaign accounts connected
  • Role-based access for staff, board, and partners
  • Each new capability builds on the last — the system compounds

Let's build the destination's case — and its capacity.

Book a 30-minute strategy call — or start with a free AI Audit of your operation.