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| Greetings and welcome to the IX edition of the Gunnison-Crested Butte Tourism Association's (TA's), E-newsletter. Use the handy navigation icons below to go directly to your subject of interest. Please let us know if it did not view properly on your computer. Our goal is to bring you news about the TA and other useful information every other month. Your feedback is invited and welcomed! Read on!
TOURISM ASSOCIATION 2007 ANNUAL REPORT
You can still view it online at www.GCBTA.com along with other useful information! PR NEWS Media Visits
Recent Media Hits- Just a Sampling!
Winter & Spring 2008/2009 Press Releases – Are posted in the media room at www.GunnisonCrestedButte.com, and a winter/spring media kit CD was mailed in September to key media contacts. Keep us updated about events of interest to tourists by contacting PR Director Beth Buehler at bethbuehler@qwestoffice.net and loading them on www.gcbcalendar.com. INTERNET NEWS
TA staff just returned from the Colorado Governor's Conference on Tourism where we learned about new social marketing ideas. We are focused on implementing as many of these ideas as possible at GunnisonCrestedButte.com If you have any ideas or suggestions or would like to participate at any level, please let us know. Our new web site will allow us to employ many "web 2.0" features that will improve our organic rankings in the major search engines, which now account for more than 50% of our unique visitors and captivate our guest's interests. Community Calendar Update- www.GCBcalendar.com
Just let us know if we can help you and someone from the committee will gladly meet with you. NOW is the time to load your winter and spring events. If your event is not loaded, do it today ... it's easy! Visitors are coming to the site looking for winter information already and locals are looking to plan their events, so be sure to get your event loaded as soon as you have the date(s). ADVERTISING NEWS
Looking Forward: Gunnison-Crested Butte Advertising
September Splendor in the Rockies and our fall advertising has morphed in to winter. Sure
Print: Frontier Airlines and United Express Inflight magazine, LA Magazine, Texas Monthly,
Other: 60- second winter video on all Frontier Airlines flights; 4' x 5' foot scrolling winter ad located in the Montrose Airport; two 2' x 3' back-lit ad boxes in the Denver 16th St. Mall Visitor Center run year-round and NEW for this winter…Time Warner Cable TV advertising in Dallas and Austin on Travel Channel, History Channel and Discovery Channel! LOCAL MARKETING DISTRICT TAX (LMD)
The LMD is up 6.05% through July as compared to the same time last year. The LMD is sent to the Colorado Department of Revenue with form DR 1490 for guest stays less than 30 consecutive days. (Get the DR 1490 PDF) It is the Lodging properties responsibility to comply with this tax.
EVENTS  PREVIEW OF UPCOMING NOVEMBER EVENTS
Oct. 16–Nov. 14 Mask Exhibit, Gunnison Arts Center READER FEEDBACK
Please let us know what you think about our newsletter and if you'd like to be entered to win a great prize, email your recommendation for the "best winter photo spot" in Gunnison County and why it's your favorite. JChaney@GunnisonCounty.org IN GUNNISON COUNTY, TOURISM PAYS FOR TOURISM! The Local Marketing District (LMD) 4% tax (paid only by overnight lodging visitors), and the Mt. CB Admissions tax (paid mostly by skiing visitors) funds tourism marketing via the Gunnison-Crested Butte Tourism Association.WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE! Posters, brochures, bumper stickers, pins and bicycle tags are available! Just call 641-7992 and we'll get you fixed up for fall! AIR SERVICE and BUS TRANSPORTATION Flight information can be found on FlyGCB.com. We hope many of you get on the bus for the Gunnison Valley "bus experience!" For the latest bus schedule go to GunnisonValleyRTA.org. | |||||
Our winter 
NEW Calendar Functionality is available so that even you can load different versions of the Community Calendar on your web site! Here's a short list of sites that are incorporating the new functionality if you want to see what it looks like. 
feels like it these past few mornings! Winter advertising came out strong in September, and the icon photo is an incredible view of Crested Butte Mountain from Snodgrass thanks to our local professional photographer, Tom Stillo. We also are using some fun photos provided to us compliments of the Crested Butte Nordic Center and Gunnison Nordic Following are some of the media being use to get out the word! 
Oklahoma Magazine, Austin Monthly, Kansas City Magazine, Midwest AAA Travel, BaseCamp Colorado, Colorado Expressions, Group Tour, Colorado Meetings & Events, Rocky Mountain Sports, High Country Anglers, American Cowboy & True West, Mountain Flyer Magazine, Colorado Springs Gazette and, direct mail postcard promoting winter air service and ski packages to 22,000 interested individuals. 
Electronic: Total reach is approximately 1,729,000 opt in email recipients! InstaCom.com (90,000 travel agents), OnTheSnow.com (450,000 consumers), Colorado.com (650,000), DiscoverColorado.com (66,000), KansasCity.com (15,000), TravelAgentPromos.com (93,000 travel agents), Dunhill Vacations (365,500), and several more.