Tourism resume

Daniel Short

Tourism Intelligence & Business Analyst

Tourism intelligence analyst focused on destination reporting, lodging and web performance, stakeholder communication, and public-sector planning support across visitor-demand signals.

99%
Faster reporting turnaround
200+
Hours saved annually
$13.1M
Visitor spending tied to campaign lift

Experience

  • Automated recurring destination reporting across lodging, tax, web, campaign, airport, and visitor data, cutting turnaround 99%, saving 200+ hours annually, and improving stakeholder and council reporting.
  • Produced bimonthly city and council updates translating hotel, airport, website, market-research, and Tourism Economics data into planning, budgeting, and partner discussions.
  • Identified lodging cannibalization in council briefings, showing April-October stay length at 3.1 days versus 2.4 the prior year and YTD lodging tax improving from -6.1% to +0.2%.
  • Connected website, campaign, and conversion data to modeled tourism outcomes in reporting, including 10,960 added trips, 3.1-night stays, and $13.1M in visitor spending.
  • Re-platformed R workflows into a one-click Python app, cutting delivery time by 95% for recurring QA, reporting, and handoff support.
  • Built decision-tree models that expanded serial-number tracking by 10x and flagged anomalies with 98% precision for downstream review and anomaly follow-up.
  • Designed dashboards that boosted theft reporting by 57.6% and increased prevention 180% through clearer trend monitoring and case prioritization.
  • Reduced inventory loss by 24% through analytics-driven investigations, root-cause tracking, and tooling improvements.

Education

Selected projects

  • Chatbot (LoRA + RAG)

    Built destination knowledge retrieval with grounded answers and citations from Visit Grand Junction content for traveler discovery, onsite search, and content reuse.

  • COVID-19 Outbreak Drivers

    Built a public-sector monitoring model with SHAP explainability, early-warning outputs, county-level trend analysis, and scenario review.

  • Pizza Delivery Dashboard

    Built Tableau forecasting and KPI reporting for demand tracking, planning, performance review, staffing decisions, and market comparison.

  • Smart Sentence Retriever

    Demonstrated semantic retrieval for destination content search, traveler Q&A, and LLM-readable content strategy.

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