The Cass County Tourism Planning Committee is working to revitalize its group and develop a cohesive countywide technique for tourism promotion. The group is especially excited by rising illustration from areas of the county outdoors of Atlantic. Anybody excited by selling Cass County as a vacation spot price visiting is invited to attend the subsequent Cass County Tourism Committee assembly on Monday, July 18 from 9-10 am on the Space Chamber of Commerce. Atlantica (102 Chestnut St. Atlantic).
For greater than a decade, Kenner Baxter of Marne has run Cass County Tourism as a volunteer. For the previous a number of years, the Cass County Board of Supervisors has yearly supplied $5,000 in funding for Cass County Tourism. Funds have been used primarily for county occasion advertising, together with flyers, print advertisements, and radio spots about occasions such because the county truthful, mud races, Whaletown, and Cass County parks and conservation occasions. Minimal funds have additionally been used to reimburse Baxter for the prices of attending state and regional tourism occasions, the place he has represented Cass County.
Individuals at Cass County tourism conferences lately have included representatives from Hitchcock Home, ARISE, Cass County Conservation, Produce within the Park, Cass Atlantic Improvement Company, SHIFT ATL, the Atlantic Space Chamber of Commerce, and the Mayor of Atlántico, amongst others.
Beginning within the spring of 2022, Baxter has shared that he plans to maneuver away from Cass County tourism. Nonetheless, earlier than she leaves, she is working to make sure there’s a plan in place for tourism promotion within the county to proceed and develop. On the July 18 assembly, the group will talk about potential long-term methods to coordinate tourism promotion in Cass County after Baxter’s departure.
These excited by attending the assembly are inspired to RSVP to Kenner Baxter at kennermc@metc.internet.
