Here's what you'll find in this edition:

• Tourism Partner Updates
• Bed Tax Revenues
• What's New Fall
• Mobile Updates
• In the News
• Collaborate Marketplace A Success
• Social Media Update
• Special Promotions

Tourism Partner Updates

National Tourism Week

It's National Tourism Week, and we want to take the opportunity to thank all of you: our tourism partners. Thank you for making the Pensacola Bay Area the greatest travel destination on the Gulf Coast. We salute you!

HRT: Save the Date

Tuesday, June 21 - Hilton Garden Inn, speaker TBA
Tuesday, July 19 – University of West Florida featuring Dr. Judy Bense

Congrats to Shelley Yates

Shelley Yates of the Great Southern Restaurant Group wins STS Shining Light Awards for "Hospitality Veteran" and "Sprit of Tourism"

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Mobile Updates - Verify Your Listing

Did you know that Visit Pensacola has gone mobile? This is another opportunity to showcase your listing information to visitors in our area. We want to make sure your listing information is up to date and current. Please take the time to verify your information, and upload any specials or promotions you may have. For login information, please email Mike Bersabal.

Social Media Update

Visit Pensacola now has 10,000 friends on our Facebook page. Let's keep the conversations going. In honor of National Tourism Week, we’re encouraging fans to share their favorite pictures or stories about Pensacola on our Facebook wall. Tourism matters to us all.

Summer Specials

Visitors and travel writers continue to seek specials, coupons and packages as they plan their summer vacations. Be sure to post them to VisitPensacola.com. If you need help logging in your listing to post coupons? Give, Mike Bersabal, a call or email. He’ll help you get setup so you can increase your listing exposure.

 

Bed Tax Revenues

Since September, our lodging revenues have been increasing at a record-setting pace. February numbers are in, and lodging revenues were up 19 percent over February 2010. For a closer look at our numbers, visit our reports page. View Reports

What's New Fall

Our PR Team will be distributing a news release to travel writers across the country on our fall events and news. If you have a new renovation, new product or other new offering for visitors, please e-mail Laura Lee.

In the News

The anniversary of the oil spill gave us the opportunity to reach out to the 100+ media outlets who visited us last summer and invite them back. Many of them took us up on our offer. Check out a few of the positive stories that resulted in these efforts:

USA Today
Southern Living
Atlanta Journal Constitution
WWL-TV (New Orleans)

Collaborate Marketplace A Success

Last week Leslie Mathews attended Collaborate Marketplace in Houston with Visit Panama City Beach, The Beaches of South Walton and Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coast. As “The Beaches of Northwest Florida,” we brought awareness to corporate meeting planners from across the nation about the extraordinary opportunities for hosting meetings and conventions along the panhandle of Florida. We created a visually stunning display and provided planners from approximately 200 companies the chance to win a vacation/familiarization tour to each of our destinations. Our Visit Pensacola grand prize winner was Maggie Masek of Helms Briscoe. Thank you to the partners who assisted in putting together the Visit Pensacola package and helping to promote the Pensacola Bay Area as a meetings destination.