Tourism Western Australia appoints The Monkeys as lead agency for Strategic and Creative Services; Marketforce, The Brand Agency and Sandbox appointed for implementation work

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Tourism Western Australia appoints The Monkeys as lead agency for Strategic and Creative Services; Marketforce, The Brand Agency and Sandbox appointed for implementation work

Tourism Western Australia has appointed The Monkeys, Marketforce, The Brand Agency and Sandbox as its new marketing agencies.

 

Sydney-based The Monkeys, part of Accenture Interactive, will lead the strategic and creative services part of the contract while the other agencies, in addition to The Monkeys, will undertake the implementation and production work.

The announcement comes after an extraordinarily protracted process of more than a year, with the tender having been released in December 2018.

Tourism WA’s Managing Director, Brodie Carr, said the tender process had given Tourism WA the opportunity to see what some of the best agencies in the country had to offer and find the best partners to help make an impact with the State’s destination marketing.

“We’re looking to change our approach in destination marketing and appointing an innovative agency like The Monkeys to handle strategy and creative that will bring a fresh approach to the way we promote the State around the world.”

“The Monkeys showed a thorough understanding of the challenges and issues we face in raising the profile of Western Australia as a world-class tourist destination and provided a range of well-researched solutions, strategies and innovative opportunities to overcome those challenges.

“Appointing local companies to provide production and implementation services gives us a great range of quality agencies to work with to grow the number of people coming to WA. It also means a lot of the work will be done here in Perth, supporting local jobs.

Carr said The Monkeys first task would be to develop a brand strategy based on the WA tourism brand narrative work which was done in consultation the State’s tourism industry.

“We travelled from Kununurra to Esperance and everywhere in between talking to tourism operators about what made WA stand out as a holiday destination. That consultation helped form WA Tourism – Our Story, which we will be sharing with industry in the coming months,” he said.

“The work we have done with industry to develop our own unique story about what makes a WA holiday different from a holiday anywhere else in the world will form the basis of the brand strategy and our campaigns moving forward and will help us attract even more visitors to the State.”

“Last year was a huge year for tourism. We’ve seen great growth in visitor numbers and we’ve been in the international spotlight with our business and consumer events. And now we can focus on developing an exciting new brand strategy and campaigns that will make us stand out as a must-visit destination.”

Accenture Interactive Lead for Australia and New Zealand and The Monkeys Co-Founder and Group CEO Mark Green said: “Western Australia is such a unique place with abundant natural beauty and is home to a wonderfully warm community of people. Drawing visitors to Western Australia is a job we are looking forward to starting.”

It is the third successive time Tourism WA has appointed an east coast based  agency to lead the account, following Host in 2009 and Cummins + Partners in 2014.