The Pinellas County Tourist Development Council (as created

Clearwater, Florida, April 12, 2006
the inaugural Eckerd College Spring Fling Tournament. This year a total of eight teams participated in the
tournament. Teams from Armstrong Atlantic State University,
Lemoyne College and Belmont Abby were some of the
Division II softball teams that participated in this tournament and stayed in our area. We have already begun
to work on bringing up to 18 teams to the event in 2007.
Winning Inning Division I Baseball
The Sports Commission partnered with the city of Clearwater and Winning Inning to host the 2006 Outback Division
I College Baseball Spring Classic at Jack Russell Stadium. This college spring training event had 12 teams
participate
in games. Ohio State, Penn State, Central Michigan and Lehigh are a few of the teams that competed
in weeklong
event. All of the teams that participated enjoyed a beautiful week of baseball and played games at
both
Jack Russell Stadium and Brighthouse Networks Field.
Triple Crown Baseball Tournament
The Sports Commission worked with Triple
Crown Sports, based out of Colorado, to host a youth baseball
tournament.
More than 50 teams participated in the tournament, with games being played in both St. Petersburg
and Clearwater. Triple Crown will be hosting other baseball events in our area this year and this partnership
with baseball has expanded and now Triple Crown Sports will be hosting their first softball tournament in
Pinellas County in May.
Big East Conference
The CVB is partnering with USF and the Tampa CVB to develop a program to bring more overnight stays from
visiting team alumni associations to the USF Football games. To open this program, we attended the Big East
basketball tournament to meet with the Big East alumni associations. There was a reception for two nights
where invitees could meet and mingle with representatives of the two CVB’s. We have since followed up with the
representatives of the different associations to set up destination reviews and identify opportunities for
promotion
and advertising to their members.
Florida Tourism Day
The Sports Commission attended the annual Florida Tourism Day with all the sports commissions from the state.
We addressed issues related to our business and each sports commission joined their CVB to meet with our
representative legislators.
Room Nights
Organization Dates Total Room Nights
USF/Adidas Invitational March 9-12, 2006 1,102
Eckerd College Spring Fling Tournament March 3-5, 2006 200
Winni ng Inning Division I Baseball March 5-12, 2006 500
Triple Crown Baseball
Tournament March 17-19, 2006 425
FILM COMMISSION
TOTAL 2,227
The Film Commission Report, submitted by Ms. Jennifer Parramore, Film
Commissioner, has been made a part of the member’s packets. Ms. Parramore
introduced
Guy Balsom,
the new CVB Film Manager.
FILM DEPARTMENT
March 2006 Report
Prepared by: Jennifer Parramore
Film Commission Director
The ABC hit show “Supernanny” is filming from March 22 to April 4 at a residence in Palm Harbor. The crew is staying at the Hilton Clearwater Beach
with an
anticipated 250 room nights.
Moxie Pictures and BMI Music filmed a music video for Coldplay on March 3. The St. Petersburg Municipal Marina was the location
for this popular band’s new music
video for their hit “The Hardest Part.” The making of the video will be featured
on their upcoming tour DVD.
Working Stiff Productions of Baltimore filmed a Bruster’s Ice Cream internet commercial at Sand Key Park on
March 14. Approximately 30 locals were hired and the producer estimated $70,000 spent locally. Working Stiff
enjoyed the location and crew so much that they talked about using Pinellas County as its Florida base.
Steinmart spent four days shooting all over Pinellas County for its Mother’s Day catalog. Locations included
Tarpon Springs, Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa, Clearwater Beach, downtown Dunedin and Fort DeSoto Park. They
reported very
positive experiences with crew and locations.
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