Co-op Advertising
With rates as low as $146, this program offers a number of affordable opportunities for you to partner with the CVB to advertise your business.
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The Official Pensacola Bay Area Tourism Partner E-Newsletter
Here's What You'll Find in This Edition:
Tourism Partner Updates
| Pensacola RV Park joined at basic level membership. |
Governor's Conference on Tourism
Register now for the annual conference August 17-19 in Orlando. Increase your knowledge on travel trends, hear advice on sustainability and social innovation and network with tourism partners across the state. The Pensacola Bay Area CVB is a finalist for Visit Florida’s prestigious Flagler Awards. Awards will be given at the conference.
41st Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism
Share Your Specials and Events
We've started planning for 2009 and want to include your special event on our VisitPensacola.com calendar. E-mail your listings to lorvis@VisitPensacola.com.
Convention and Corporate Sales
(contact Patti Mohan)
Patti is currently working on booking trips for next year. She’s working on leads from Florida General Baptist Convention, which would bring in 1,500 room nights, the WSA Competition Travel, with 3,000 potential nights and the Adventist Medical Evangelism Networks, which would bring in 240 room nights. Patti will also be attending the Chuck Cook Tradeshow in Tallahassee on August 14. The tradeshow has been successful in the past, with 360 meeting planners and executive directors in attendance.
It’s time to vote for ConventionSouth’s Best of the Best. Vote for Pensacola businesses and events to make our area stand out for meeting planners across the country. Log on to www.conventionsouth.com.
Group Sales
(contact Lori Coppels)
Lori is busy preparing for another busy tradeshow season and needs partner participation. She’ll be promoting our area to the leisure group market through the Student & Youth Travel Association (SYTA), National Tour Association (NTA), Bank Travel, TravelSouth, American Bus Association (ABA), Ontario Motor Coach Association (OMCA) and the Florida Motorcoach Association (FMA). If you would like your business promoted during these shows, please contact Lori at lcoppels@VisitPensacola.com to discuss any special promotions, tour packages, collateral materials or auction items.
Hot off the Press
(contact Laura Lee)
In June and July, the CVB generated news coverage in Coastal Living, Southern Living, the Tallahassee Democrat and the Birmingham News, as well as on news channels in Biloxi, New Orleans, Dallas and San Diego. The CVB is currently pitching our secret season to media outlets throughout the country. If you have news to share or ideas for feature stories, please e-mail Laura at llee@VisitPensacola.com.
Pensacola Celebrity Chefs Event
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- September: The Food Issue
- October: Historic Pensacola
VisitPensacola.com achieves a PageRank of 6
(contact Mike Bersabal)
What is PageRank? Google ranks the importance of a Web page on a scale of 1 to 10 using PageRank. A 6 out of 10 is a PageRank seldom given to individual destination marketing organization Web sites.
We invite all of you to participate in our blog about traveling in the Pensacola Bay Area. Visit our site at http://VisitPensacola.Blogspot.com.
We're in the process of updating our listing pages with a new thumbnail feature. If you would like an additional thumbnail of your property on the listing pages, please send us the image of your property to photos@visitpensacola.com. Please put "thumbnail listing" in the subject line.
AT&T goes live with their new 3G network in Pensacola. 3G is the third-generation of mobile phone standards and technology. Click the here for the Pensacola 3G article
Web site updates:
- We've created a Pensacola Facebook fan page
- We've added the spring break schedule for 2009
- We've included an ADD THIS widget at the end of our blog posts and at end of our releases so that you can share it across the Web
- We've added a new visitor wallpaper section
- We've added new content to www.PensacolaCelebrityChefs.com.
Reporting
| Web stats for July | |
| Page Views | 1,066,667 |
| Site Visits | 194,552 |
| Avg. Page Views Per Visit | 5.48 |
With the release of the latest iPhone, mobile visits to our site have increased 15.85 percent over last month.
View our Web reports online at www.VisitPensacola.com/reports
Reminders:
Don't forget to renew your Web banner ads on www.VisitPensacola.com. Take advantage of our growing monthly unique visitors and be seen on our Web site.
Download our Web ad rate sheet here (file size 1.45MB)
Submit your coupons, hot deals, packages and/or holiday specials in our member area.
HRT Notice
(contact Barbara
Williams)
The next Hospitality Roundtable Luncheon will be held Tuesday, August 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Jackson’s, 400 S. Palafox Place. The cost of the luncheon is $12 for HRT members, $20 for non-members. Payment should be made at the door with checks made payable to Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. No invoicing will be permitted. Laura Hill of the Fiesta of Five Flags will discuss upcoming events. Since we must guarantee reservations, if you RSVP and do not attend, you will be billed for the cost of your lunch. Please RSVP by e-mailing Barbara at bwilliams@visitpensacola.com or by calling 434-1234 by 3 p.m. on August 15.
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