Daniel Levine is a Trends marketing visionary, celebrated keynote speaker, and as Executive Director of the Avant-Guide Institute, he is the hands-on leader of a huge international team of “cool-hunters” — thousands of trend-spotters who track the latest ideas and experiences from around the globe.
Hailed as a “genius” by Elle magazine, Daniel Levine is a celebrated international trends expert with an uncanny ability to help destinations, brands and businesses be more relevant, innovative and profitable.
A wide variety of tourism and consumer-oriented businesses seek out Daniel when looking to understand the impact of forthcoming social and cultural trends and to “hip” up their image.
Daniel has presented to major businesses and conferences worldwide, including the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), World Travel Market, American Express MarketWatch, Promo Live, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, International Luxury Travel Market, EIBTM, and the New York Times Travel Conference.
For audiences, the results are transformative. While Daniel’s expert presentations are highly entertaining and packed with captivating visuals, the focus is on the practical. Using inspirational and enlightening examples of where consumer culture is headed, Daniel utilizes the full resources of the Avant-Guide Institute to demonstrate how creative businesses from around the world are reaping major benefits by responding to real-world trends in innovative new ways.
Then he demonstrates how you too can immediately take advantage of these same trends to transcend market challenges, win customers and dramatically increase sales.
Attendees learn about powerful social trends that will significantly impact their work, discover straightforward strategies to take advantage of these developments, and walk away with remarkable insights and tactics they can immediately put to use.
The author of over 20 bestselling books, Daniel is a well-known expert on consumer marketing, tourism and global cultural trends. His latest book describes the social effects of the economic downturn and offers a prescription for destinations, businesses, brands, products and services to capitalize on the behavioral changes of their customers.
Daniel is often on television — including BBC, NBC, Fox and many others. He is also a regular consumer trends expert guest on international radio, from Europe and the United States to Australia and South Africa, and he is regularly quoted in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
His latest book, “The Meaningful Economy” is a prescription for consumer-oriented businesses and travel stakeholders to capitalize on the behavioral changes of their customers.
Daniel’s first job out of college was writing some of the biggest books for Frommer’s.
Why do some people choose to travel to you… while others choose to go elsewhere? Understanding social trends is a critical part of your sales process and if you want to thrive – and not just survive – you need to be able to pinpoint exactly why your visitors do what they do. In this thrilling presentation global trends expert Daniel Levine will take you on a deep dive to reveal what travelers in Nebraska are actually thinking and feeling. You will discover the real values and attitudes behind why we all make certain lifestyle decisions, understand trends that are quickly changing the tourism landscape, and learn from organizations, brands and products that are embracing trends and change with spectacular results. In the space of an hour, Daniel will arm you with inexpensive and powerful tools your business can use to ride these same trends, attract more visitors, and increase sales – in ways your competitors simply can’t. New trends and fresh rules are creating new winners and losers every day. Which will you be?
In over 19 years of organizing events — in which I’ve booked more than 250 keynote speakers — Daniel Levine is without a doubt one of the top four or five we have ever had…. Audiences can’t stop talking about his presentations — he really makes us look good.”
“Daniel Levine is dynamic, inspirational and thought provoking. This kind of keynote presentation makes our conferences meaningful.”
“Levine is the ultimate guru of cool…. He has a remarkable ability to distill trends to their essence and articulate them in a way we can all benefit from.”