rainmaker.travel is a social enterprise focused on keeping more tourism spend in destinations to enable sustainable and responsible tourism development. rainmaker.travel works in public private partnerships, joint ventures with tourism ministries, tourism boards, tourism associations and their hospitality & tourism providers as well as other relevant stakeholders to democratise digital technology, making it inclusively available to emerging, small, medium and independent businesses. Destinations and their hospitality and tourism businesses are enabled to rapidly recover, become more resilient, independent from market dominating online travel agents, take back control of their own visibility, digital presence, reputation, marketing and distribution in order to restore their economic sustainability. Restoring economic sustainability is the necessary foundation for any other sustainability aspect, being it ecological, social or cultural and establishes the basis for sustainable and responsible tourism development and for tourism to again fulfil its mandate to contribute to the destinations GDP and the UN sustainability goals. Leveraging the Tourism Cloud Platform and the Destination Network Open Ecosystem, the - 5 Stages of Success – which creates a holistic methodology providing a unified application suite and dashboard for hospitality & tourism businesses. It allows them to manage their business, boost visibility, establish a perfect digital presence with direct and seamless booking and payment ability. This results in improved reputation creating trust, extending their marketing reach through relevant content, social media and eMail promotions along with digital advertising, and accepting all bookings seamlessly and from channels and directly avoiding costly distribution channels in order to restore their economic sustainability.