Penelope
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The general area that I live in gets 7 million visitors each year. Tourism is IT. My area is bigger than Cedar Point, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Football Hall of Fame- probably combined.It would be a delight to welcome you! (it might also be good if we could get you to make a presentation on hospitality/rural tourism/promotion to our Chamber and County Commission. Too much effort into the holy grail of the employer who will ride into town bringing family wage employment to replace the logging and fishing jobs largely lost decades ago, and not enough recognition of the micro businesses that are working with the existing natural assets in a successful way NOW. Hmmm was that a tad harsh?Washington is already on my list - one of the 10 States I have missed. Now I know WHERE in Washington I want to go!Our first guests were a couple. The lady took pictures of e v e r y t h i n g. Turned out she is a blogger who likes to write of her travels. This was the result.We had people in last week who photographed everything. We have a wooden box of various types of tea bags on the side, nothing fancy just the one we bought from the tea bag suppliers, as I walked past the breakfast room they were photographing it. I went back to the kitchen and told DH, he said they photographed the breakfast tables, menus, all sorts of things. Strange!Joey Bloggs said:We have to remember the good guests, when people take photos and love every minute - the same exact room.
I wondered if they were either serial ta reviewers or travel journalists, but I've heard nothing more..
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.Same here!! Tourism is the 2nd largest industry in Arkansas, after farming, but our local government and Chamber of Commerce are only interested in trying to lure the factory jobs back, and everybody else here knows those are gone forever. They spend $30,000 here, $60,000 there to entice operations to come here and employ FIVE people, but will not spend ONE PENNY on advertising and promotion of our assets for tourism. DO NOT GET ME STARTED!Skamokawa said:...it might also be good if we could get you to make a presentation on hospitality/rural tourism/promotion to our Chamber and County Commission. Too much effort into the holy grail of the employer who will ride into town bringing family wage employment to replace...
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And our Dept of Tourism could use a
I LOVE Michigan's tourism department. Their latest is Pure Michigan. It is a fantastic concept from start to finish. I love creative marketing programs.