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Serving Local Flavor: Smart Ways DMOs Are Showcasing Their Food Content

Food is more than just a meal—it’s one of the most powerful ways to connect travelers with a destination. Whether it’s foodies chasing down the best local eats or families looking for crowd-pleasers, food plays a starring role in travel decisions.

That’s why DMOs are getting creative with how they showcase their culinary delights. From mouthwatering galleries to curated maps, here are some standout ways our customers are putting local bites in the spotlight and inspiring travelers to dig in.

Destination Toronto: Top Chef Map

Destination Toronto created a CrowdRiff Map for their landing page to showcase all the food locations and businesses that were featured on Season 22 of Top Chef: Destination Canada!

Visit Orlando: MICHELIN Galleries

To celebrate MICHELIN’s recognition of 59 local restaurants, Visit Orlando combined single embed and carousel galleries in their blog post to feature top spots across the city.

Visit Pasadena: Cheeseburger Picks

The Visit Pasadena team put together a blog post on the best cheeseburgers in town, enhanced with UGC-powered single embed galleries featuring location tags and CTA links.

Visit Central Florida: Burger Week Map

To promote Polk County’s Burger Week, Visit Central Florida created a CrowdRiff Map spotlighting all participating restaurants. Where they don’t have visuals for specific burgers, they cleverly pop in the Burger Week logo to keep the map visually strong.

Visit California: UGC Gallery for Tacos

For their taco-themed road trip from LA to San Diego, Visit California used a gallery to showcase mouthwatering UGC.

Got more delicious examples to share? We’d love to see them—send them our way!