10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE

A MEMBER OF THE WYOMING COUNTY
TOURIST PROMOTION AGENCY

1. Tourism is the #2 business in Wyoming County. It generates $1.6 million in sales tax revenue each year.
   
   
2. County tourism payroll exceeds $12.8 million and 1,081 jobs.
   
   
3. Members with web sites can be linked to our website. Last year WCTPA web site hits were over 600,000.  Members get opportunities to participate in joint advertising brochures, TV commercials, etc., which will further promote their businesses.
   
   
4. Families are taking more frequent vacations closer to home.
   
   
5. Tourism provides jobs for our youth. These jobs introduce them to the working world and give them a chance to save money for higher education.
   
   
6. For every $1.00 spent on WCTPA’s tourist promotion efforts for Wyoming County, $17 comes back. Projected visitor spending in Wyoming County is $20,515,000. Therefore, the more revenue WCTPAhas to spend, the more revenue will return.
   
   
7. Members’ promotional brochures are displayed in our tourism office.
   
   
8. Members receive WCTPA’s quarterly newsletter to stay on top of what is happening and the waysWCTPA is showcasing the area to the outside world.
   
   
9. Members have the right to vote for our board of directors at the annual meeting, and may even wish to become a board or associate board member to help guide the future of WCTPA.
   
   
10. Members help WCTPA work hard to promote their businesses and Wyoming County.

Your membership is important to Wyoming County’s economy!

Wyoming County Tourist Promotion Agency’s Accomplishments

• Television commercials on commercial and cable stations in Buffalo, Batavia & Rochester areas
  
• Advertised our Wyoming County travel guide in newspapers and magazines.
• Met with operators at national motor coach marketplaces to promote Wyoming County.
• Promoted Wyoming County at consumer shows.
• Promoted Wyoming County on regional sales blitzes.
• Participated in three-county (Genesee, Orleans, Wyoming) familiarization tours.
• Printed and distributed 150,000 Wyoming County travel guides.
• Publicized Wyoming County events in print, on web site and on web links.
• Prepared and distributed 1,000 tourism promotional bags to county campgrounds with promotional materials from tourism members.
• Printed speciality brochures, ie., agritourism, restaurants, museums, fishing, Silver Lake, bicycling.
• Collaborated with historical societies to produce Freedom Trail brochure on Underground Railroad.
• Collaborated with tourism and arts councils in own and neighboring counties to produce “Sugar and Spice and Everything Ice” marketing campaign.
• Collaborated with Greater Niagara Region and Genesee and Orleans Counties on various brochures and marketing campaigns.
  
• Helped lure a national ice fishing contest to Silver Lake and promote the event.
  

Travel Guide Distribution

150,000 travel guides are distributed at NY State Thruway information centers, over 300 locations between Niagara Falls and Syracuse, at AAA’s within a 500 mile radius, and as responses from national and international web and 800# requests.