Tourism Education and Development
Workshop Opportunities
TOURISM WORKS for Your Charlottesville Businesses! Come to Charlottesville’s Paramount Theater for Tourism Help Desk on August 21
Virginia Tourism wants to drive traffic to your business! Meet one-on-one with Virginia Tourism staff to get listed on www.Virginia.org, the Commonwealth’s official travel and tourism website. Pitch your attraction to Virginia Tourism’s PR staff, find out what tourism grant funding is available and review Virginia’s advertising & media plan to find the ad CoOp ad that fits your budget best. Come by during lunch or a break and you’ll leave with a new, online AD listing and access to Virginia Tourism marketing, development and educational tools to help your tourism business GROW! Let VTC’s staff share their insight and help you target and reach travelers, and the media, to increase your tourism visitation.
- ALL visitor-friendly restaurants, lodging, events, attractions and retail shopping are eligible
Including B&Bs, hotels, motels; diners, fast-food and delis; retail wine, food, clothing, home and accessory shops
- Get listed on www.Virginia.org and get in front of 5 million+ website visitors a year! – FREE
- Reach vacationing families, weekend getaway couples, business travelers and the media to increase business
- Leave with access to a new, dynamic marketing mix that will enhance, or jump-start, your marketing efforts
- Let ‘Virginia is for Lovers’ work for your business and link visitors’ passion for life, food & travel with your business
- Tourism is one of Virginia’s most powerful industries, generating $17.7 billion in revenue, supporting 208,000 jobs and providing $1.2 billion in state and local taxes to Virginia’s communities.
Thursday, August 21 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Paramount Theater (on the Downtown Mall)
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
* Bring existing advertising, brochure and website copy as a guide for your online AD Listing
* Parking is convenient street-side and at nearby parking decks
For more information, contact Virginia Tourism’s Angela Wiggins (awiggins@virginia.org - 804.545.5553)
Entrepreneur Express – Moving Your Business Forward
A series of entrepreneurial business and management workshops are being held across Virginia to assist new business startups and existing small businesses! These workshops are designed to provide information on available business resources and deliver practical, hands-on training covering key elements of business practice. Workshop segments will include information on how to start and operate a business, growing an existing business, marketing strategies, financing and available resources. For more information visit http://www.vastartup.org/.
The Grantsmanship Center Foundation will be holding a 5-day Grant Writing Class at the Richlands Business Incubator in Richlands, Virginia September 15th through the 19th. Seating is limited to 30 participants and will fill up quickly! The Grantsmanship Center Foundation will offer a limited number of half-tuition scholarships for organizations with annual budgets of less than $300,000. Please contact The Grantsmanship Center Foundation directly at 1.800.421.9512 or at http://www.tgci.com/gtpregister.asp for more information and to register.