The Pinellas County Tourist Development Council (as created
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Clearwater, Florida, April 12, 2006<br />
Jane Lovatt Prima<br />
Amanda Morison Red<br />
Jo Cooke Reveal<br />
Amy Packer S <strong>The</strong> Sunday Express<br />
Sharon Ring Sainsbury’s Magazine<br />
Liz Cowan Seven Days (Supplement of the Sunday Mail,<br />
Gl<strong>as</strong>gow)<br />
Sian Rees She<br />
Robert Wilson Take A Break<br />
Trisha Harbord <strong>The</strong> People<br />
Lisa Minot <strong>The</strong> Sun<br />
Joanne Woods Woman’s Own<br />
• Ecosse Sunday Times – ongoing liaison over proposed trip – to wait for<br />
a group trip – although we did get approval of a seat<br />
from BA – so could tie in with a trip from Birmingham.<br />
• Jewish Chronicle – after considerable liaison – journalist<br />
decided not to take trip.<br />
• BBC – following a request for accommodation<br />
in April. Despite follow up calls and emails no response.<br />
Press rele<strong>as</strong>es:<br />
• Travel agent blitz – rele<strong>as</strong>e generated following conversation with<br />
Geoff Rowcliffe – appeared in TTG.<br />
• May ev ents – rele<strong>as</strong>e on May events drafted and issued<br />
GENERAL:<br />
•<br />
Flywho.com – have now spoken to Jane Pendleton, MD of GoVisitAmerica – and she explained that they are very busy at the<br />
moment but keen to meet. We are to plan a meeting late April and then we need to discuss co-promotions. Our plan is to<br />
unch on 13 th encourage the major la<br />
July (which is not the first flight by the airline) for two main re<strong>as</strong>ons. One it is the first UK<br />
airline to fly into St. Pete – which is more of a story than flying into Orlando clearly. But more importantly the World Cup is still<br />
in full flow on 8<br />
good day for news (very few news programmes etc).<br />
rrival of the flight – which would attract media attention both in the US<br />
nt area)<br />
th July (indeed the final is on the 9 th ). <strong>The</strong>refore all media coverage will be about that. Also Saturday is not a<br />
It would also be good to look at a civic reception for the a<br />
and the Birmingham area (which is a large media catchme<br />
• Fort Myers Band – monitoring of situation – it seems that the take in the UK is of an arrogant head teacher – making decisions<br />
with no knowledge.<br />
Fear that London would retaliate with comments about Florida’s safety were unfounded generally – although<br />
the Mayor of London did mention that the murder<br />
rate w<strong>as</strong> much higher in New York or Miami.<br />
TOUR & TRAVEL SALES<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tour and Travel Sales Report, <strong>as</strong> submitted by Ms. Nancy Foster,<br />
Director, h<strong>as</strong> been made a part of the member’s packets. Ms. Foster announced the<br />
2006 National POW WOW is scheduled for May7-10 th . Contact Nancy Foster for further<br />
details.<br />
Prepared by: Nancy Foster<br />
TOUR & TRAVEL DEPARTMENT<br />
MARCH 2006 REPORT<br />
Director - Tour & Travel<br />
Recap of Trade Shows/Missions Attended See details below March 2006<br />
2/27-3/2 National Trade Shows (NTS)-Atlanta, Birm ingham , N<strong>as</strong>hville, Knoxville<br />
3/3-5 AAA Travel Market Place-Foxboro/Boston<br />
3/6-7 US Airways Vacations-Baltimore and Long Island<br />
3/9-19<br />
Cleveland Sport Show<br />
3/12 AAA Mid-Atlantic-King of Prussia, PA<br />
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