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A place for interactive conversations on various topics of interest to tourism industry members.
A place for interactive conversations on various topics of interest to tourism industry members.
In early April 2009, Tom Weber penned a story in the Rochester Post Bulletin, "The arts scene lives amid downturn", telling about the vibrant and vital arts scene in southeastern Minnesota.
Numerous community organizations contribute fishing reports each week for inclusion in Explore Minnesota Tourism’s (EMT) weekly fishing report, and community organizations are still being accepted.
To celebrate National Tourism Week, the Riverland Tourism Association will be holding "Tourism in Northwest Minnesota…Makes Dollars and Sense" at 9:00 a.m. on May 12, 2009, at the Swenson House in Thief River Falls.
Arrivals to the United States in 2008 reflected a shift between the first nine months of the year and the fourth quarter.
Are you considering putting in a spam filter for your e-mail address? Or has your Internet provider recently applied one in for you? While unsolicited e-mail has become a problem in this electronic age, please set up your spam filters to accept e-mail from tourism@state.mn.us. If we are spam blocked, you risk not getting important notifications from us.
Are you are a Minnesota attraction who has not yet updated your listing for the 2009 travel season? In an effort to eliminate sending paper surveys to businesses who have not yet updated their basic free listing through the extranet Web site, we sent a reminder e-mail on April 13, 2009. Won’t you please take a moment to make your updates?
Annual sales and use tax statistics for Minnesota resorts are now available for 2007. Totals for 2007 included $257.6 million in gross sales and $14.8 million in state sales tax at Minnesota resorts.
The Meet In Minnesota news conference held March 4, 2009, at the Rivercentre in St. Paul, included media representatives from WCCO TV, KSTP TV, KARE 11 TV, KAAL TV – Austin, KXRA TV – Alexandria (via KSTP), KTTC TV – Rochester, WCCO Radio, MPR Radio, and TPT Public Television. Additional coverage of this initiative was carried in Finance & Commerce, St. Paul Pioneer Press, FM108 and Cities 97 radio, with more expected in April issues of national meetings magazines.
The United States Travel Association (USTA) has launched a new campaign called "Meetings Mean Business," with a goal to protect the millions of jobs that depend on meetings and events.

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