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 Passionate About Spreading the Word Awards
The deadline for entering your promotion in the Passionate About Spreading the Word Awards is June 30. In honor of Tourism Week, Virginia Tourism Corporation will recognize outstanding efforts by the Virginia travel industry to educate elected officials and the public about the benefits of tourism to Virginia. Winners will be announced at the 2008 VA-1 Conference.
VTC Orientation
Get ready for the Summer Orientation! Sign up for Tuesday, July 29th as space is limited to the first 20 takers. Jump-start your tourism efforts! Meet one-on-one with VTC’s marketing and development staff and leave with a new, dynamic marketing mix! To register, contact Hollis Sullivan at hsullivan@virginia.org.
20th Virginia Wine Month
October marks the 20th anniversary of Virginia Wine Month. VTC Public Relations will be promoting Wine Month to national journalists and encourages partners to start thinking now about Wine Month special events, packages and promotions for Virginia.org. Log in to the Administration Tool to get started.
What's New in Virginia 2009
Got a new travel product to promote? Now is your opportunity to tell 5 million visitors, the travel media, hundreds of tour operators and meeting event planners about your new, renovated or expanded attraction, hotel, meeting site, sports venue or travel services that will open in late 2008 or 2009.
Click on the following link by July 15, 2008 to give us all the details. http://www.vatc.org/pr/whatsnew/whatsnew2009form.asp Gas Deals Wanted
Journalists are contacting VTC weekly inquiring about what Virginia tourism is doing to combat gas prices. Please develop gas price deals, rebates and packages throughout the summer and post them on Virginia.org regularly to get in on the media coverage. Log in to the Administration Tool to add your deals.
July 4th Events
Get your July 4th events, festivals, fireworks etc. on Virginia.org! Visitors and locals are looking for those events now to plan their 4th of July holiday. The media is looking for these events to highlight in their publications and websites! Don't be left out! Log in to the Administration Tool to enter or update your events. Advertising Media Planning
The new 18-month advertising media plan for 2009-2010, is currently under construction and negotiation. Once completed, VTC expects to make the plan available on vatc.org no later than mid-August and it will be formally presented at the VA-1 conference in September.
VTC Fall Marketing Forum
Save the date! October 15th, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for the VTC Fall Marketing Forum, to be held in Richmond, featuring group tour, meetings and sports marketing. Stay tuned for the Richmond site location and details in next month's Dashboard!
Live Passionately with the 2009 Virginia Travel Guide
2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Virginia is for Lovers, one of the most recognizable tourism slogans in the world. You can participate in the 40th anniversary year by purchasing an advertisement or listing in the 2009 Virginia Travel Guide, the VTC’s primary consumer fulfillment piece. The travel guide is printed in December, and the VTC will distribute 600,000 printed copies in 2009 and another 100,000 electronic versions of the guide.
For information about ad rates and sizes, contact Jo Diedrich at Leisure Publishing at 540-090-0052. For listing information, contact Jenny Dorsey at Leisure at 540-989-6138. For general questions, please contact Judy Watkins at VTC at 804-545-5563 or jwatkins@virginia.org.
Trade Show Opportunity
VTC is looking for Virginia partners to exhibit at the following tradeshow: HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings National – September 10-11, 2008. Contact Joni Johnson at 545-5544 or jjohnson@virginia.org for more details.
Workshop Opportunities
The Entrepreneur Express Workshops are designed to provide information on available business resources and deliver practical, hands-on training covering key elements of business practice. Workshop segments include information on how to start and operate a business, grow an existing business, marketing strategies, financing and locating available resources. Several Entrepreneur Express events are scheduled around the state in the coming weeks in Page County/Luray, Spotsylvania County, Goochland County, Mecklenburg County, Charlottesville/Albemarle County, Nottoway County, Culpeper County, Portsmouth, Galax and Tazewell County.
For a complete schedule of dates and locations, click here: http://www.vastartup.org/dates.html Agritourism: It’s More Than a Farm Tour . . .Act II If you have considered adding excitement to your farm, tourists to your fields and hopefully more money to your bottom line by incorporating agritourism into your farming operation, there is a free workshop you should attend. Presented by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tourism Corporation, Agritourism: It’s More Than a Farm Tour . . .Act II. Merchandise
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Virginia is for Lovers Dog Leash
Take fido out in Virginia's great outdoors with this heavy duty nylon webb construction dog leash with woven "Dog Lovers" logo. Features handle loop and sturdy snap hook for attachment to collar. Go to the Virginia is for Lovers Shop to Order. |
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Website Visitation Through May 2008  UP 7.5% YTDLodging Occupancy Rates Through April 2008  DOWN 4.4% from same period of 2007 Car Rentals Through March 2008 DOWN 0.9% from same period of 2007 Gas Sales Through October 2007 UP 2.4% from
the same period of 2006Click here to download the pdf for more information ... Virginia in the NewsVirginia spans globe to attract tourists Richmond Times Dispatch - Statewide, as part of its 2008 marketing plan, Virginia Tourism Corp. plans to push the state as a vacation destination for international visitors. Virginia is for . . . savers Richmond Times Dispatch - The purple wristbands promote a Web site to determine your travel passionality. Kimberly Petersen, who was staffing one of the tables, told Harris how to determine her passionality by taking the Live Passionately Quiz on the Web site, www.Virginia.org Once it determines your passionality, it will give you trip ideas, she said. Go underground to see the hidden side of Shenandoah, VA SmarterTravel.com Luray isn't the only place to find impressive caverns. To see the rest of Virginia underground, check the listings on the Virginia Tourism Corporation website. PJ Thomas: For wine country, look no farther than Virginia Virginia Beach New and Updated Virginia.org Features New and updated features added to Virginia.org in the last few weeks are:
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