Postcard for Seattle

Postcard for Seattle

The World Cup is coming. Prove what it books — to the ratepayers funding you.

Six FIFA World Cup matches and up to 750,000 visitors land in Seattle in June. The STIA’s 60+ assessed hotels — and an 11-member ratepayer board — will ask exactly what those marketing dollars produced. Postcard answers with numbers a board can open and audit: your GA4, your ad accounts, real booking handoffs, public lodging-tax receipts. No modeled location panels.

39.7M
visitors in 2025 — down 0.6%, with international travel still soft. Every verified booking matters more.
Source: Visit Seattle 2025 annual meeting
$13–16M
collected annually by the STIA at $4 per occupied room night across 60+ downtown hotels.
Source: STIA program FAQ
750,000
expected visitors for six World Cup matches, June 2026 — a once-in-a-generation measurement moment.
Source: Visit Seattle

What the ratepayer board sees today vs. what it could see

Today: modeled dashboards

  • Visitation modeled from phone-location panels the board cannot audit
  • Campaign ROI graded by the vendors who sold the media
  • No live booking layer — interest leaks to OTAs with zero attribution
  • No measurement of how Seattle appears in AI answers, where trip planning now starts

With Postcard

  • Every STIA dollar tracked campaign → click → booking → lodging-tax receipt
  • World Cup lodging impact isolated as an auditable event study, hotel by hotel
  • Book Direct handoffs on visitseattle.org — guests land on member hotels’ own engines, 0% commission
  • Beacon tracks Seattle’s answer share for World Cup and leisure prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI

Three modules, tuned to Seattle

Ledger

The ratepayer report that audits itself

Verified spend and cost-per-booking for every channel, tied to the city’s own lodging-tax receipts — built for an 11-member board that approves your budget.

Stay

750,000 fans, zero OTA leakage

Live rates and availability for STIA hotels on your own site during the Cup — every direct booking attributed to the campaign that drove it.

Beacon

Win the AI answer for June

“Where should I stay for the World Cup in Seattle?” is being asked right now. Beacon shows whether you’re the answer — and how to become it.

A live working session with your data, before June.

30 minutes. We connect read-only to GA4 and one campaign, and put the first auditable number on the table.

Book a working sessionTour the client portal
Public figures cited from Visit Seattle’s 2025 annual meeting release and the published STIA program FAQ. Postcard is independent: we sell no media and take no booking commission.