Bangor Metro: Soapbox Derby: Q: What can Maine do better to promote tourism?

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"Scott K Fish

I expand this month’s question, asking colleagues experienced in Maine tourism:

• Should state government promote tourism? Would we see better results enabling private sector tourism to self-promote?• Would raising the meals/lodging tax 3% help, hurt, or have a neutral impact on tourism?

First, we need to know if current state tourism spending shows measurable results. That’s a challenge.

Maine website developer Lance Dutson’s blog is devoted, in part, to Maine tourism. You may remember Dutson’s name in the news last year when he was sued by a New York ad agency hired to create a Maine tourism ad by Maine government. The agency’s rough-draft ad, posted on the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development website, included a phone number—to a phone sex service! Dutson posted the ad on his blog, blasting the incompetence. The lawsuit was soon dropped."

http://bangormetro.com/media/Bangor-Metro/May-2007/Soapbox-Derby/

Alex

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