ABOUT DMS

For over 30 years, DMS Destination Marketing Services has connected the Australian and New Zealand events industry to a boutique network of destination management companies (DMCs) around the world.

DMS delivers professional services to Australian and New Zealand incentive, conference and corporate event planners and leisure specialists through our global network of tourism product, including DMCs. Our ideas, knowledge, insight and connections will help you to prepare proposals, win business and deliver exciting, creative and innovative programs to your clients.

Our network operates in some of the world’s most exotic and prestigious destinations. We ensure success through dedicated service and the sustained quality of our partners.

As a full-service tourism representation company, DMS specialises in introducing global product specialists to the Australian and New Zealand market, through an integrated sales, marketing, and public relations approach. Established in 1992, DMS was a pioneer in the representation services market, endorsing quality tourism product. With our experience, we understand your commercial and strategic requirements, increase brand awareness and formulate results-driven marketing and media programs.

As owner-managing director, Marissa drives DMS’s core values of exceptional customer service and ethical practice within the company. She ensures the day-to-day delivery of professional services to our business partners and the business events industry. Her passion for sales inspires a motivated team of professionals, who work to deliver targets with enthusiasm and drive.

In 2013, after working with the highly respected and innovative DMS founder, Leila Bishara (formerly Fiedler), and learning the company’s operations from the ground up, Marissa took ownership of DMS.

Marissa has a background in tourism and hotels spanning over 25 years. Her experience at Tourism Australia, hotels and various multinational corporations overseas has solidified her expertise in international operations and destination marketing. Her leadership has helped DMS to become the strategic, holistic and full-service representation company it is today.