Hurtigruten Group is the world's leading adventure travel group. Formed of three main business units – Hurtigruten Expeditions, Norwegian Coastal Express and Hurtigruten Svalbard – they offer unique small-ship and land-based adventures from pole-to-pole.
What We Discussed:
In today’s interview with Storm Tussey-Haverly, we discussed a wide variety of issues:
- What Hurtigruten Group is and what Storm does as their SVP Global Marketing.
- Storm’s eclectic background and experience, as well as what she likes most about marketing.
- The most challenging problem in her marketing career and how she solved it.
- The difference between marketing high-end travel excursions and products like toys and technology.
- How Storm keeps her offering relevant and interesting to prospects throughout the 2 ½ year marketing funnel for cruises.
- Any experiences from Storm’s former jobs that she applies to her current role at Hurtigruten.
- How Storm differentiates the Hurtigruten brand in a crowded travel and cruise market to capture her target audience’s attention.
- How content offerings have changed in the travel/cruise space over the past decade.
- Storm shared advice for marketers working remotely and far away from their parent company.
- Advice to marketers considering bringing an agency on board for the first time.
- Any advice he would give to an agency attempting to win business from her.
Thanks Storm for a great interview!