Why choose the 2009 Comox Valley Visitors' Guide to promote your business?
80,000 copies of this 64 page full colour comprehensive travel guide will reach:
- potential visitors from across the Province and around the world
- local residents and visitors
- media and travel writers
- travel consumers
- BC Ferry passengers
Plus - for those who plan their vacations online - the Guide will be available for download on www.discovercomoxvalley.com.
For more information, contact Nancy Newsom, 250-337-2128 or visitorguide@shaw.ca.
Culinary Tourism Marketing Opportunities
Businesses looking to attract the culinary traveller shouldn't miss these great opportunities from Tourism Vancouver Island
- 24-page 4x9 soft fold brochure
- 50,000 copies distributed through BC Ferries’ brochure racks on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Island routes, consumer shows, Island Visitor Centres, direct mail and many other racking distribution points located both on and off the Islands.
- featured online where current virtual Tourism Vancouver Island publications have been viewed by over 15,500 potential visitors this year to date
- a bi-monthly magazine devoted to food, wine, travel, and lifestyles in the Pacific Northwest.
- readers are well-read, well-traveled, and knowledgeable about food and wine and strive to educate and entertain by profiling the places, products, and people that exemplify this region's extraordinary bounty and quality of life.
For more information, please contact Vicky Campbell, program sales representative with Tourism Vancouver Island – 250-740-1219 or Vicky@tourismvi.ca. Deadline for both of the above opportunities is January 16, 2009.
2009 Consumer Shows
Presence at travel and consumer shows is an integral component of destination marketing. Potential visitors get the opportunity to learn about new vacation destinations and meet face to face with tourism professionals. Below is a list of shows Discover ComoxValley will be supporting in the first quarter of 2009.
1. LA Times Show, Feb. 14 – 15, 2009
2. Calgary Home and Garden Show, Feb. 26 – Mar. 1, 2009
3. Edmonton Home & Garden Show, Mar. 19-22, 2009
4. Pacific Agricultural Show, Feb. 13-15, 2009
2009 Calendar of Events
Is your organization holding a large scale destination-level festival or event that will attract visitors to the rgion? Email your event info to Carolyn Mulvaney,Destination Marketing Coordinator - carolyn@discovercomoxvalley.com - for possible inclusion online, in event calendars, and more.