It’s been a good week for Emporia’s Convention and Visitors Bureau staff.
CVB director Betty Senn, sales and service coordinator Susan Rathke and administrative marketing assistant Chassidy Bryan were in Overland Park on Thursday to attend the Travel Industry Association of Kansas conference. During the conference, they received awards for two promotions run on behalf of Emporia.
On Friday, when they returned to work at the Trusler Business Center, they learned that Emporia had been chosen as one of the “8 Wonders of Kansas Customs.”
“It’s been a week,” Senn exclaimed. “Oh, it’s just been awesome! We were just so thrilled. ...”
One of the awards was for a visitors’ guide that had been outsourced, she said; the other was a promotional/tourism/group marketing award for the CVB’s rack card project to promote local attractions and events.
The Emporia CVB brought home glass trophies to commemorate the awards.
The Customs designation could bring benefits now and in the future.
“I think the Custom is going to bring awareness throughout the state and hopefully throughout the region ... that Emporia is the official founding city of Veterans Day,” Senn said. “You can come here and see that veterans are honored by that memorial. That park down there is a fabulous park.”
Other cities have veterans’ memorials, she said, but Emporia’s has a claim that none of those have.
“There is only one city that has made a national holiday, and that is Emporia,” she said.
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Posted by reddog (anonymous) on October 25, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
K.B. Thomas Jr. said, "the average tourist likes to go places where there are very few tourists." This is something that we should capitalize on.
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