Trade Sales Activity

In order to keep South Dakota's "Great Faces. Great Places." in front of key trade professionals, the Trade Sales and Marketing team is working diligently this winter season to educate and inform business audiences about the diverse South Dakota visitor opportunities.

Travel Professionals Website
www.TourSDakota.com has been integrated into www.TravelSD.com as a resource for all travel professionals. This new site has been specifically created to cater to the needs of travel agents, group tour operators and meeting / event planners. The tools needed by each specific group of travel professionals are highlighted to help them give their clients more than they expected in South Dakota.

Travel Professionals E-Newsletter
The Travel Professional E-Newsletter has been expanded to meet the needs of all travel professionals. Each month, the Trade Sales & Marketing Team shares useful information about the land of Great Faces and Great Places, including upcoming events, interesting facts and timely travel tips.

December Travel Trade E-Newsletter

Meeting & Convention Co-Op
This brand new co-op between the Office of Tourism and 11 of South Dakota's Convention & Visitors Bureaus is designed to deliver a consistent, clear message to meeting and event planners on the great opportunities available to them in South Dakota. The co-op has designed a new South Dakota Meeting Planners Guide and will promote South Dakota as a meeting and event destination through both magazine and web advertising.

Meeting Planners Guide (PDF)

Winter Familiarization Tour
The trade sales team will be hosting the tour operator Alidays, Italy, along with top companies that sell their tours, to a winter attractions and snowmobiling fam tour January 27-30 in the Black Hills. The tour will include Wyoming including Yellowstone and Jackson. The group will depart on Feb. 4 to return to Italy. Alidays will be selling the South Dakota/Wyoming tour as a new winter destination tour in Italy.