| Vermont Tourism Officials Anticipate Strong Summer Travel |
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont tourism officials are expecting an excellent summer travel season and will launch an aggressive marketing campaign in major metropolitan markets to draw more visitors to the state.
The Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing will kick-off its summer marketing campaign in Boston, New York, Montreal and Vermont next month. The campaign will promote Vermont primarily through radio stations, online advertising, and out-of-home signage in train and subway stations.
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| Motorcycle Magazine Features Vermont - Offers Advertising Opportunity |
The Motorcycle magazine Back Roads USA will be doing a "Destination Vermont" feature story this fall. The story will promote touring around Vermont to view the fall foliage.
In addition to the main feature Brian Rathjen,
Publisher, says there will be other Vermont touring articles and their regular columnists will talk about visiting Vermont.
As a tie-in they are offering Vermont DMO's their best, 12-issue, ad rate for the Vermont issue. You can find the rate sheet here.
View the Back Roads USA Web site ... |
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| Vermont in the News |
Vermont's cheese trail, classic car shows and Northeast Kingdom are some of the stories making headlines and giving people summer travel ideas. In case you missed them, here's a sample of recent national, regional, and local articles concerning Vermont travel and the state's tourism industry.
Click here for the list.
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| 2009 Vermont Travel Person of the Year |
 A very big congratulations goes out VDTM's own Sue White, the 2009 Vermont Travel Person of the Year!
Sue was presented with the honor by Commissioner Bruce Hyde during the Vermont Travel Industry Conference on April 9 in Manchester.Click here to read more about Sue's well-deserved award.
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| All Aboard Amtrak with the Vermonter's $12 Fares |
 A special rate of $12 is available for the rest of 2009 for travel between any two Vermont stops on the Vermonter’s daily route, serving nine of our communities. Vermont businesses are invited to help promote and create special vacation packages for this low-cost, green way of travel throughout Vermont. Click here for more on the special fare. |
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| ACCD Sec. Dorn Discusses Funds for Tourism & VT Businesses at Vermont Travel Industry Conference. |
Agency of Commerce & Community Development Secretary Kevin Dorn discussed plans for federal stimulus funds to be directed toward low-interest financing for Vermont's small businesses - many of which are tourism-related. Watch Sec. Dorn discuss the funds below.
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| Explore our Work |
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In 2007, visitors made over 14 million trips to Vermont for leisure, business, or personal travel, spending more than $1.6 billion while they were here. VDTM is continuously working on creative ways to promote Vermont to potential travellers. Explore some of our most recent projects below:
2009 Marketing Outlook
2007 Tourism Economic Impact
Social Media Marketing
Celebrate Champlain Licence Plate Auction
Vermont Travel Planner
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