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FLY LIKE A PRESIDENT

McCANN SAN JOSE, San Jose / DESTINATIONS TRAVEL AGENCY / 2018

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Description

Luis Guillermo Solís is the current president of Costa Rica, also known as THE TRAVELING PRESIDENT because he has made more than 30 trips to 25 different countries around the world since he assumed his mandate in 2014, breaking all presidential travel records in the history of Costa Rica. Destinos Travel Agency created flylikeapresident.com, a mobile platform synchronized with the Presidential agenda, which showed the President’s location in real time. Every time the President traveled, a new discount was activated at the very moment he reached the destination. The offer lasted for the duration of his entire stay. When the President was not traveling, Costa Ricans could try to persuade him to travel elsewhere, sending him Tweets of relevant news taking place in other countries which would merit his visit.

Execution

The media exposed the exaggerated travel agenda of the president on October 2, 2017, and Destinos Travel Agency decided to take advantage of the conversation to launch flylikeapresident.com on November 1, 2017, the day the president traveled to London. The launch was made in the morning, as a social intervention in the news posts on Facebook of all the media that criticized the president's new trip, reaching people who had commented on each news item. The promotion started when the president landed in London and ended when he left. This same promotional dynamic would be repeated every time the president traveled to another country. When he wasn't traveling, the web activated a platform in of international news in real time with a possible national interest, that people could send to the president via Twitter, to convince him to travel to these new destinations.

Outcome

As of today, more than 20 offers have been activated. Over 4000 tweets were sent to the President. Every time the President traveled #VolaComoElPresidente became trending topic. Costa Ricans created more than one thousand pieces of their own content around the platform. We reach 1.8 Million unique people. 1.3 Million Social Media Interactions. During the campaign, volacomoelpresidente.com had a traffic of 1.5 million people in a country of 4 million. Sales revenue rose 38% during the low season compared to the sales of 2017, and the best of all, Costa Ricans hated less the President's trips.