Mark Your Calendar Board Meetings

Our board meetings are open to the public and we welcome attendance. As a reminder, board training is from 12 p.m. – 12:50 p.m., with the business meeting starting at 1 p.m. To learn more, please call the Glacier Country Tourism office at 800.956.6537 or 406.532.3234. Or drop us a note at glaciercountry@glaciermt.com.

MILEPOSTS FY 17/18

Tablet-Friendly Guide Visits 20,946

Call Center Inquiries (phone, email, live chat and travel guide distribution) 35,645

Website Visits 439,804

Social Media Engagement 3,149,762

Need travel guides? Call Kristi McNeal, Glacier Country Tourism's office manager, at 406.532.3234.

Public Relations and
Tourism Sales Update

Glacier Country Tourism’s Public Relations and Earned Media Manager, Lucy Guthrie Beighle, has worked on multiple projects to boost tourism in our region. She has hosted journalists and media influencers in our area including Portia Smith of Obsessed by Portia and Rob and Chris Taylor of 2 Travel Dads to highlight fall and winter in Glacier Country and to promote Western Montana as a travel destination. She is also spearheading a media event in Seattle, which will allow Glacier Country Tourism—and representatives from our regional CVBs—to share story ideas and showcase Montana to travel writers.

Meanwhile, our Tourism Sales Manager, Debbie Picard, has been busy promoting Glacier Country to meeting planners and international and domestic group tour operators. Debbie has embarked on the trade show season recently traveling to Las Vegas to exhibit at IMEX America (Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings and Events) and Seattle to Connect PNW (Connect Pacific Northwest), where she met with meeting planners to discuss the ease of meeting in Montana for associations, corporate incentive travel, board meetings and retreats. In December she traveled to San Antonio, Texas for NTA (National Tour Association’s Travel Exchange) to meet with domestic and international tour operators to sell Western Montanan’s tourism product. Information on Debbie’s trade show leads can be accessed on the Glacier Country Partner Center.

Don’t Miss Out on Your
Exclusive Benefits
Summer Landing Page Cooperative Advertising
With Glacier Country Tourism

With our winter season underway, we’re looking ahead to our spring and summer seasons. As partners of Western Montana’s Glacier Country, we want to promote your business—to the best of our abilities—to the visitors of our state. Since the privatization of our website, more advertising opportunities have been made available, which can enhance your business’s visibility on the site. There are over 1.2 million unique visitors a year who utilize glaciermt.com to assist in planning their vacations, and—with the advertising opportunities available—you can take advantage of our site’s traffic to expose your business to travelers. With spring and summer only a few months away, having the opportunity to advertise on the summer landing pages or having premium-position advertising opportunities on Glacier Country Tourism’s home page offers front-and-center exposure for our busy season. Don’t pass up this new opportunity!