I Know its a tough time ya'll...

...But some of the things we've resorted to reporting on during a slow travel/tourism time is somewhat sad, but amusing. While browsing through Hotel Online for headlines for our March E-news I encountered the following:

Cleanup of meth labs in hotel rooms costly (Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.)
Tourism director wants new brochures (The News Virginian, Waynesboro, Va.)
Disneyland to woo Saudi tourists (Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Invisible tourism: Economic driver isn't always obvious, but it's always there (Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash.) (it's a story about jam... well from the few paragraphs I could get through...)
Hotel horror stories: Checking in was their first mistake (San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

It's also sad the people CVBs and Tourism Commissions hire sometimes. Obviously, they have no media experience and can't even spell their headlines correctly (see below). I swear you'd get more coverage if you a: knew AP style and used it correctly b: spelled everything correctly and c: didn't write me an entire novel. Thankyouverymuch my advice session is over.

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