Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anca-Georgiana Andrei Author-Name-First: Anca-Georgiana Author-Name-Last: Andrei Author-Email: anca.georgiana.andrei@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Title: Impact of Nation Branding Campaigns on Country Image: Germany vs. Brazil Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show how a successful nation brand campaign can influence the image of a country and to highlight its positive impact on different areas such as tourism or foreign investments. Two nation branding campaigns, implemented one in Germany and one in Brazil, during FIFA World Cup, 2006 and 2014, were examined in comparison in order to write out the necessary conclusions which support the hypothesis above. The study also proposes to demonstrate that Blue Ocean Strategy was used with success in Germany’s nation branding campaign. Keywords: nation branding, country image, blue ocean strategy, nation brand index, globalization, competitive advantage Classification-JEL: M39, O5, Z29 Creation-Date: 2016 Year: 2016 Volume: 14 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol14/6%20Anca%20Andrei.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2016-12