New York City Metropolitan Area
Richard Cutting-Miller is a senior Travel & Tourism industry executive with more than 30 years of international experience, focused on Travel & Tourism strategy, business development and planning, market research, industry analysis, public affairs and government relations. He has worked in more than 65 countries and 350 destinations around the world. Specialties: Destination Development Strategy, Tourism Master Planning, Tourism Business and Experience Development, Marketing and Communications, Feasibility Studies, and Travel & Tourism.
Richard established the business development efforts for Road.Travel in the North America. Road.Travel is a start-up digital platform that delivers interactive curated itineraries for automobile road trips helping destinations, travel brands, travel media and experts inspire visitors, readers and their audiences, while delivering the technology for trip planning, hotel bookings, downloading itineraries, navigation and storytelling to mobile devices and smart cars for amazing in-car road trip experiences. • Established company and product brand in the USA and Canada via industry tradeshows, investor conferences and pitches, online marketing, collateral materials and social media • Conducted and delivered technology pitches with hundreds of potential clients (in person and virtual) • Structured and developed proposals, organized and signed first contracts with travel industry clients • Initiated negotiations with major national brands for multi-year, multi-million dollar deals
A 25-year travel industry consultant responsible for tourism strategy, policy and master planning projects at Resonance. Resonance Consultancy creates development strategies, plans, policies and brands that shape the future of destinations, communities, cities, states and countries around the world. Richard has worked in more than 65 countries and specializes in visioning, trend forecasting, strategic planning, master plans, real estate development, tourism strategy, tourism policy, city branding, destination branding, place branding and marketing. Recent project list includes: Aruba Tourism Authority - Strategic Business Plan Beaver Creek Resort - Development Strategy Bellevue, Washington - Destination Development Strategy Bermuda Tourism Authority - Destination Development Research and Benchmarking Cincinnati USA - Destination Development Strategy City of Los Angeles - Tourism Master Plan Destination Canada - International Travel Trade Strategic Plan Destination Cleveland - Events and Festivals Analysis / Strategy Finger Lakes Wine Country - Destination Branding and Marketing Republic of Ireland’s National Tourism Development Authority - Regional Brand Strategy Richmond Region Tourism - - Tourism Master Plan Snohomish County, Washington - Tourism Strategic Plan Tourism Vancouver - Tourism Master Plan, Scenario Planning & Forecasting Travel Portland - Tourism Master Plan Visit SLO CAL - Destination Management Strategy Visit Tucson - Tourism Master Plan Visit Tulsa - Destination Development Strategy
Board Members engage with U.S. Travel staff and each other, discuss the priorities of the association, hear from policymakers helping to advance our advocacy agenda, receive updates on key research impacting the travel industry, share best practices and insight into industry trends and more.
The Board of Directors of CTO is the highest Executive Body of the Organization and is responsible for the overall direction of the activities and programmes of the organization within the policies prescribed by the Council of Ministers & Commissioners. It comprises the Directors of Tourism representing the Government membership, together with the hotel and other tourism private sector members.