eFYI for September 2008 South Dakota Office of Tourism

eFYI - Featuring Your Industry - September 2008

Tourism Conference sponsorships and booths
The Tourism Conference sponsorship mailer has been sent. A sponsorship is a great way to get involved and get exposure for your business, and it helps us bring in expert speakers and put on a valuable conference for everyone. Sponsorship commitments and booth requests will be due back to the Office of Tourism by October 10th.

Shoulder Season Vacation Packages and Hot Deals
You may submit your shoulder season Vacation Packages or Hot Deals at any time during the season. Go to www.SDvisit.com for registration forms or view detailed information on these and many other marketing programs available to the visitor industry.

Visitor and Industry Relations
For more information contact
Joey Hockett
at
Joey.Hockett@state.sd.us
or
(605) 773-3301

South Dakota Pheasantennial: 100 Years of Tradition
What are you doing to celebrate the Pheasantennial? If your community is planning an event, contest, drawing, celebration, etc. the Office of Tourism wants to hear about it. Events can be as large or small as the community sees fit and can range anywhere from a Pheasantennial Festival to a longest tail feather contest. The information we receive will be posted under our community events section on the Pheasantennial web site.

2009 Great Events
Applications are due Oct. 10 for the 2009 Great Events program. Tourism’s Great Events campaign features four events selected by the Office of Tourism. We provide assistance to selected event coordinators and support promotional efforts for the designated events in order to boost visitor spending and increase the economic impact in host communities. Great Events criteria and applications can be found on www.SDVisit.com.

Visitor and Industry Relations
For more information contact
Joey Hockett
at
Joey.Hockett@state.sd.us
or
(605) 773-3301

Great Service Star
Information and applications will be hitting your mailboxes soon for the Great Service Star designation. The due date for applications is October 3. Please mail to the attention of Eileen Bertsch at the Office of Tourism, 711 E. Wells Ave., Pierre, SD, 57501.

Visitor and Industry Relations
For more information contact
Eileen Bertsch
at
Eileen.Bertsch@state.sd.us
or
(605) 773-3301

At a Glance....

The South Dakota Travel Monitoring System indicates state park attendance is up 5.8% over August of 2007 while hwy traffic counts and occupancy decreased slightly. View definitions of these travel indicators at www.SDVisit.com.

Marketing Research
For more information contact
Kirk Hulstein
at
Kirk.Hulstein@state.sd.us
or
(605) 773-3301

South Dakota Office of Tourism

www.TravelSD.com	Consumer Site
www.SDVisit.com	Travel and Tourism Industry Site
www.MediaSD.com	Press and Media Site
www.FilmSD.com	South Dakota Film Office Site
www.TourSDakota.com	Travel Professionals Site