From a city few national clients would think to search, Carrie and Curtis Zimmerman built an integrated agency around an oddly durable skill: changing what people believe about a place, then watching what they book.
PPR Strategies found a narrow, useful territory between the ad agency and the planning consultant: helping communities decide what is true about themselves, then making sure somebody notices.
It owns no hotels, no theme parks, no roller coasters. Yet Visit Orlando's small team turns Orange County's hotel tax into a $94.5 billion visitor economy - and 468,000 jobs.