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Private Membership Section Click Here Board of Director's List (PDF updated 3/25/08) Membership List (PDF updated 9/25/07) Corvallis Tourism Membership Benefits Corvallis Tourism Membership Fees Corvallis Tourism Membership Application Form (on-line) Front Line Training PowerPoint (This may take a few seconds to download). It can be studied with or without speakers but there is narration. Once into the PowerPoint please click on Slide Show and from first slide. We hope you enjoy the presentation. Tourism Think Tank Presentation by Mr. Todd Davidson, CEO Travel Oregon (PDF) February 7 2008 Creating a Regional Brand in the 21st Century (Speech to the Southern Oregon Wine Institute March 3rd 2008. PowerPoint may take a little time to download.
Corvallis
Tourism is: • A private non-profit
organization marketing Corvallis and Benton County as a destination • Targeting conventions,
meetings, sporting events, leisure travelers, tour operators and travel
writers • Partially funded by transient
occupancy tax through a contract with the City of Corvallis • Supported by membership Why partner with Corvallis Tourism? Corvallis Tourism provides you with marketing and
promotional opportunities for only a fraction of the cost charged by
for-profit companies. The return from our proven marketing tools far exceed
the financial investment of membership. You can directly target qualified consumers by
being listed in our publications and on our website. Every year over 50,000
visitors read our Official Visitors Guide and over 10 million people use our
web site, www.visitcorvallis.com.
Your membership fee goes directly into marketing
activities that will help you secure both immediate and future business.
Corvallis Tourism's marketing strategy ensures that our publications are
placed directly into the hands of those who are considering visiting Corvallis
now and into the future. Visitors to Corvallis and Benton County stop first
at Corvallis Tourism. They see our advertising, they ask for our publications,
they check out our website, they call our toll-free line, and they visit our
Visitors Center, all of which can display your business information. To keep
members up to date with Corvallis Tourism activities, we provide you with two
informative up-date meetings each year, as well as give you a vote in
selecting our Board of Directors or opting to run as a board member.
Corvallis
Tourism Member Benefits:
1: Advertising in the Official Visitors Guide at Special Membership rate Corvallis Tourism publishes 50,000 copies annually of the Official Corvallis & Benton County Destination Guide. This guide is the only official visitor publication for Corvallis & Benton County. It is distributed to: all advertising inquiries, Internet inquiries, selected Oregon Convention & Visitor Bureaus, State Visitor Centers, major corporations in Corvallis, CVB satellite visitor centers, Oregon State University, conference attendees, our own visitor center and City Hall. Lodging and Restaurant members receive free listings and can advertise in this publication at a special discounted membership rate. 2: Advertising Inquiry Mailing List Corvallis
Tourism engages in an annual advertising campaign in such publications as Good
Housekeeping, Sunset Magazine, Travel & Leisure, VIA, etc. The inquiries
that come to the CVB from these publications include names, addresses and
often, expected date of visitation. These requests, are fulfilled with the
Corvallis Destination Guide and those inquiries that give their permission are
then sent to members to fulfill with their information.
4: Advertising on our Web SiteCorvallis Tourism has over 833,000 hits and 276,892 users to its web site http://www.visitcorvallis.com each month. Members receive free listings with links to their sites and reservation capabilities. Members can also buy banner or button ads on the site linked to their web site. Advertisers on the web site receive a monthly email informing them of the number of views and the number of clicks on their advertisement.
5:
Convention
Calendar
(On-Line) This calendar informs
members, when major conferences and sporting events are coming to Corvallis.
Even if the hotel is not being used by the conference, they will be aware that
overflow is possible.
6: Advertising in Web site and Destination Guide Ads may be purchased by members at a discount rate in both the Destination Guide and on the Web site. Discounts are given to those who wish to advertise in both the destination guide and web site. 7: Lodging Reservations and Ticket Sales
Lodging reservations must be handled through the reservations service of choice by
Corvallis Tourism and not through individual services selected by the members.
Fairs and Festivals have the capability of selling entrance tickets on-line. 8:Convention, Group and Sports Sales Solicitation Obtain your share of the over 80 conference,
sporting event and group leads facilitated by Corvallis Tourism annually.
Hotel, B&B, conference facilities and caterer members are represented
during these sales solicitations.
9:
Free Public Relations Assistance Corvallis Tourism will provide members with public
relations assistance via the distribution of electronic press releases to a
state-wide media list (updated annually). Corvallis Tourism acquires (on
average) over 500 PR articles per year.
10:
Festivals
& Events Marketing Twice annually Corvallis Tourism calls a meeting of all our festivals and
events community. Once in the Fall and once in the Spring this group is charged to help
Corvallis Tourism help market our festivals and events through a
co-op TV advertising program and public relations program and on-line ticket
sales.
11:
Front Line Staff Training Corvallis
Tourism offers Corvallis product knowledge training to you and your front line
staff, this training is online and can be accessed by contacting Corvallis
Tourism. This training helps front desk
clerks and other front line staff answer visitor questions and to find out
what resources the visitor center can offer. 12: Membership Update Seminars and E-Zines To keep members up to date with Corvallis
Tourism's marketing activities there will be membership updates each
year. On odd years we have the Tourism Awards luncheon for members. Even years
we have the Tourism Think Tank for membership and public input. There is also
an annual membership meeting each year in September.
13:
On-Line Reservation Services All
member hotels and B&Bs have the ability to list their properties on the
on-line reservation service on our Web site, including special on-line pages established for
each conference and group. 14: Participation in Corvallis Tourism Co-op Activities Co-op marketing programs, co-op advertising, sales
calls, sales missions, trade shows are arranged by Corvallis Tourism, which
members are invited to join.
15:
Private Membership Statistics Page Information to help market your tourism business, including: Monthly city wide occupancy and average daily rate, bid status report, lost business report, convention calendar and visitor profile report
16:
Quarterly VIP
E-mail Newsletter to qualified subscribers.
All
visitors to our web-site www.visitcorvallis.com
have the opportunity to opt-in to the Corvallis Tourism VIP newsletter. They
receive via email a quarterly e-newsletter, with articles about hot rates
& hot dates along with great things to do in the Corvallis area while they
are visiting. (Average size of list 1,700).
17:
Restaurant
Reviews &
YouTube Video Interviews Corvallis Tourism has created a
web page where every two
months a prominent restaurateur is promoted along with a YouTube video
interview.
Membership can also promote your restaurant to conference delegates and their
guests by providing an insert in the conference kit given to each delegate.
18:
Relocation Leads Members can receive mailing lists of people wishing information about relocating to Corvallis. 19: Social Media
Analysis/ Social Network Analysis. 20: Weekly Fast-Fax for Your Information & Tent Cards for Restaurants Delivered weekly to your front line staff through
your fax. Fast-fax informs you of all the activities in the City for the next
week.
21:
Willamette
Valley Visitors Association Corvallis Tourism is a founding member of the Willamette Valley
Visitor?s Association (WVVA). WVVA is a Regional Destination Marketing
Organization (RDMO) which is charged by the State to promote tourism to the
Willamette Valley one of seven recognized regions in Oregon. WVVA's
marketing consists of a large public relations campaign, advertising and their
own regional web site. Members in Corvallis Tourism automatically have
participation in WVVA and can attend their annual meeting and help influence
their marketing program.
Corvallis Pride is an elite team of volunteers and Interns that take pride in representing our beautiful city. If you are interested in assisting in our visitor center to greet visitors and help them with information about our city and county then we need YOU! Contact Christie Weigel at 541-757-1544
If you would like to join Corvallis Tourism or learn more about membership please complete the form below and we will contact you. Or call us at 541 757-1544:
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