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North CoastTourism Marketing: Why mess with MI's great success?January 28, 2010 – 10:17 am
Michigan's eye-popping tourism marketing web site — www.michigan.org — is the most popluar state tourism web site for the third year in a row, the Grand Rapids Press reports. Favorite Asian Carp linksJanuary 21, 2010 – 1:25 pm
Here at the Center we've always found joy in celebrating bipartisanship wherever we could find it. Beg these senators to stop a tourism travestyJanuary 21, 2010 – 10:57 am
Remember those great Pure Michigan ads that captured the airwaves the past couple years? You can still watch these great ads online, but not many other places. Lake Michigan's new Paul RevereDecember 17, 2009 – 8:23 am
If Asian Carp are already past the last barriers and beginning to feed voraciously in Lake Michigan, it's not because Andy Buchsbaum sat idle and hoped for the best. Revving northern Michigan's economic engineDecember 3, 2009 – 11:52 am
If "quality of place" is an important factor in 21st Century economic growth, Northern Michigan should have big advantages. And the latest economic forecasts for the region are rosy by comparison to Michigan's past decade of doom. Will tourism funding fall away like autumn leaves?November 5, 2009 – 10:52 am
EDITOR'S NOTE: Among the many strategic priorities caught up in Lansing's never-ending budget mess is the no-lose proposition of state funding for tourism marketing. The state's Pure Michigan campaign has won national attention — and, more importantly — swarms of new tourists, for the state. Despite the fact that tourism marketing returns far more to [...] 'Forging common solutions'November 5, 2009 – 10:49 am
Bill Milliken's legacy as Michigan's longest-serving governor is a legacy that includes bipartisan spirit, natural resources protection, and heavy investment in core cities. Now 87, Milliken touched on all of those themes in a "common ground" speech at the recent dedication of Milliken State Park on Detroit's riverfront. His speech can serve as an inspiring [...] GUEST COLUMN: Disinterest, disinvestment, and disillusionOctober 29, 2009 – 10:04 am
EDITOR'S NOTE: As the Michigan League of Conservation Voters argues below, Michigan citizens are eating our seed corn by sitting passively by while political leaders in Lansing continue to disassemble decades of nationally recognized natural resources protection. Disinvestment in Michigan's breathtaking natural environment threatens to destroy the very tourism economy the state works to promote. [...] Don't let Pure Michigan ads go darkSeptember 25, 2009 – 10:56 am
The Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association said this week that three-quarters of its members saw an increase in out-of-state visitors this year, even in the national recession. Tourism bucks Michigan's larger economic trendAugust 13, 2009 – 10:42 am
While lauding Michigan's breathtaking "Pure Michigan" ad campaign in a July story, the Economist Magazine concluded that only time would tell if the campaign would produce economic results. |
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