Keene, NH-02/27/2012- A special meeting of the Monadnock Travel Council will be held on Monday, March 5 from 5:30pm to 7pm with the
NH Travel Council Board members visiting the Monadnock Region to reach out to the Travel Industry. This includes everyone from lodging, cultural & heritage arts, chambers of commerces, tourism associations, restaurants, travel and tourism related businesses etc. PLEASE JOIN IN as the NH Travel Council wants to hear from you-- What is happening in the industry in the Monadnock Region? You can learn the NH Travel Council's initiatives to assist the NH tourism industry and an update on the upcoming Governor's Conference on Tourism. The meeting will be held at the Historical Society of Cheshire County at 246 Main Street in Keene. Light refreshments will be served. PLEASE RSVP to jim.narkiewicz@gmail.com or (603) 313-8585.
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About the Monadnock Travel Council:
The Monadnock Travel Council was founded in 1990 to provide a comprehensive travel promotion program for the Monadnock Region tourism related businesses. The travel council provides a forum for communication in the Monadnock Region and to represent the region to other regions in New Hampshire, statewide, nationally and internationally.
The Monadnock Region is made up of thirty-nine towns and the city of Keene in the southwest corner of the state of New Hampshire. Any business, firm, individual, association, corporation, partnership or estate in the Monadnock Region having an interest in promoting tourism is invited to join the travel council.
The Monadnock Travel Council works with local Chambers of Commerce to improve communications and both educational and marketing activities for tourist related organizations. The travel council works with the Monadnock Lodging Association membership to promote their businesses. The travel council also partners with Granite State Ambassadors, CTM Brochures and works with the State of New Hampshire Division of Travel and tourism in promoting familiarization tours of the region for tour operators, travel agents, Travel and Tourism personnel from other states and travel writers. The Monadnock Travel Council also promotes the Connecticut River Scenic Byway which runs through fifty-three communities, features ten waypoint centers and stretches over 500 miles of roads on both sides of the river in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Information booths promoting the Monadnock Region are set up at tourism related events including trade shows, expos, Chambers of Commerce business After Hours, Keene Ice & Snow Festival, Cheshire Fair and the Keene Pumpkin Festival. The travel council participates at the Big E's New Hampshire Building to target travelers from throughout the Northeast and Discover New England for international travel agents and tour operators.
The Monadnock Travel Council has regularly scheduled meetings and an annual meeting in November of each year. Find out more about Monadnock Travel Council at www.monadnocktravel.com.
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