{"id":95785423,"date":"2010-11-06T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/canada-ranked-top-country-brand-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:03:06","slug":"canada-ranked-top-country-brand-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/canada-ranked-top-country-brand-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Ranked Top Country Brand in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\nCanada has beat out the United States as the most respected country brand in the world, according to a report released Friday by the Canadian Tourism Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A big reason why the U.S.&#8217;s neighbors to the north were so popular this year was largely due to the incredible $26-million Vancouver Winter Olympics ad campaign held earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New York-based research and branding consultancy firm FutureBrand reported their annual Country Brand Index results, which included a survey of over 3,000 international business and leisure travelers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canada was second place in last year&#8217;s results, with the United States in the top spot thanks in large part to the Obama effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the top ranking, chief executive of Canadian Tourism Commission, Michele McKenzie, said: &#8220;Several<br \/>\nyears ago, CTC set out to refresh Canada&#8217;s tourism brand in<br \/>\nanticipation of being on the world stage in 2010. We believed that, with the right strategy, a legacy of the<br \/>\nGames could be more interest in Canada as a travel destination, and<br \/>\nultimately more visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has beat out the United States as the most respected country brand in the world, according to a report released Friday by the Canadian Tourism Commission. &nbsp; A big reason why the U.S.&#8217;s neighbors to the north were so popular this year was largely due to the incredible $26-million Vancouver Winter Olympics ad campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168573,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785423\/revisions\/97168573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}