PAUL OUIMET

FOUNDER & STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Paul is the Founder and Strategic Advisor of NEXTFactor Enterprises Inc., which he established in 2015, and since 2019, it has been part of MMGY Global’s group of companies as MMGY NextFactor. Prior to that, he was one of three founding partners of lnterVISTAS Consulting Inc., and for 20 years, he played a major role in building it into a multinational company with offices in the U.S., Canada, and Europe (and work done in over 75 countries).

He has been leading strategic planning projects for over 25 years. He has successfully delivered master plans for airports, ports, and destinations around the world. He has also completed organization reviews and developed start-up plans and business plans for new ventures. Since forming NEXTFactor, Paul has completed and/or recently worked on over 40 destination master plans in the US and Canada.

During the past 10 years, Paul has led the team that developed and delivered DestinationNEXT, an important Destinations International initiative informing the future of destinations and DMOs. DestinationNEXT was ranked by Skift Magazine as one of the top 10 most important developments in the global tourism industry in 2015. To date, the team has conducted over 375 destination assessments around the world. 

He continues to serve as Managing Director of DestinationNEXT, with Destinations International.  In March 2020, in partnership with Tourism Economics, MMGY NextFactor launched OrganizationNEXT, a project on Strategic Recovery Planning.