Mark Your Calendar
Board Meetings |
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DEC
10 |
December 10, 2019
noon – 3 p.m.
Northwest Montana History Museum, Kalispell |
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MAR
10 |
March 10, 2020
noon – 3 p.m.
Missoula |
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MAY
12 |
May 12, 2020
noon – 3 p.m.
West Glacier Area |
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Our board meetings are open to the public, and we welcome attendance. Board training is from noon – 12:50 p.m., and the business meeting starts 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.
MILESTONES FY 2020
through September 2019
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Tablet-Friendly Guide Visits
17,528 |
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Call Center Inquiries
(phone, email, live chat and travel guide distribution)
27,542 |
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Website Visits
339,297 |
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Social Media Engagement
308,496 |
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Paid Media Impressions
42,787,353 |
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Earned Media Ad Value
(Oct. 2018 through Sept. 2019)
$2,555,575 |
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Need travel guides? Call Kristi McNeal, Glacier Country Tourism's office manager, at 406.532.3234.
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Public Relations and
Tourism Sales Update
Glacier Country Tourism’s Public Relations and Earned Media Manager, Lucy Guthrie Beighle, has been busy promoting Glacier Country’s shoulder season by hosting and planning media trips. In June she hosted, in partnership with Whitefish and Kalispell CVBs, a media trip to promote the new American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Glacier Park International. This media trip has already resulted in more than $300K of Earned Media. In September Lucy attended the Travel Blogger Exchange (TBEX) where she held appointments with 30 bloggers but met many of the 500 attendees during a Glacier Country Tourism sponsored lunch. After TBEX, Lucy hosted a Fall in Western Montana FAM for seven travel bloggers: Jessica Elliot, Kita Roberts, Lia Garcia, Sarah Horcoff, Vanessa Chiasson, Albion Gould and Nathan Sado. In addition to the FAM, Glacier Country received ten other journalists in September, writing for such publications as Forbes and Lonely Planet. The earned media numbers for FY 2019 were finalized, totaling more than $3 million, from both traditional journalists (digital and print) and
digital influencers.
This quarter our Tourism Sales Manager, Debbie Picard, has been busy promoting Western Montana’s Glacier Country to meeting planners looking for a unique and authentic meeting destination. With the increase in both the number of airlines, direct-flight cities and larger capacity planes coming into Montana, timing has never been better for this market in Western Montana. In September, Debbie was the coordinator for the Montana booth at IMEX America in Las Vegas, the largest tradeshow in the U.S. for the meetings market. The Montana booth partners included Big Sky Resort, Bozeman CVB, Visit Helena (with Great Northern Hotel), The Ranch at Rock Creek, Sage Lodge and Western Montana’s Glacier Country with Destination Missoula and Explore Whitefish. The Montana booth had more than 75 appointments and additional walk-up traffic providing great exposure to the meetings market. Debbie also attended Small Market Meetings in Green Bay, Wisconsin in September, promoting the region as a meetings destination to planners who look for smaller cities. She also assisted Lucy in hosting a weeklong FAM tour through Western Montana following TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) held in Billings in September. This winter, she will be attending NTA Travel Exchange (National Tour Association) and ABA Marketplace (American Bus Association) promoting the region to the group tour/motorcoach market. After each show, Debbie’s trade show leads are available on the Partner Center for follow-up by Glacier Country Tourism partners.
For more information about our PR and earned media or tourism sales departments, email Lucy or Debbie at lucy@glaciermt.com
or debbie@glaciermt.com.
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