Chamber’s Tourism Arm
Makes Pre-Season Splash
Ads & Travel Show Spots Get Area on World’s Radar Screen

The Chamber got an early start setting the stage for this year’s tourism season with cooperative advertising in the National Georgraphic Traveler Magazine and the Boston Business Journal, and a traveling roadshow presence at the American Bus Association annual conference in Chicago, the Canadian Sales Mission, the Discover New England (DNE) Conference and the recent New England Meeting Planners International Conference and Exposition (NEMICE) in Boston.

According to Marge Hubbard, tourism manager and the Chamber’s representative at the various shows, the Chamber has received more than 3,000 leads from the ads and various shows—1,200 from the January/February issue of Traveler Magazine alone. "The Canadian Sales Mission was terrific!" she said. "We showed at mini-expos in Montreal, Toronto and St. Catherine’s where the turnout was excellent. I spoke with many tour operators, travel agents and travel writers who seemed very interested in the NH Seacoast and Portsmouth."

The Boston Buisiness Journal ad targeted meeting planners and invited them to the Chamber’s booth at NEMICE to find out more about venues and amenities in the Portsmouth area. Representatives from Strawbery Banke Museum and the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company joined Hubbard in Boston to help market the Seacoast. The DNE conference provided an opportunity to interface with tour operators, travel agents and travel writers that promote New England to the international markets, particularly the United Kingdom and Germany.

The Chamber thanks the following sponsors who helped to make this year’s pre-season tourism and marketing program possible:

Anchorage Inn
Best Western Wynwood Hotel & Suites
Black Heritage Trail
C& J Trailways
Coachman Inn
Fox Run Mall
Isles of Shoals Steamship Co.
Jardiniere Florists
The Music Hall
New England Center
Paddy's-An All American Grille
Regal Limousine
Runners Alley
Seabrook Greyhound Park
Seacoast Repertory Theatre
Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth Hotel
Sise Inn
Strawbery Banke Museum
Three Chimneys Inn
Wentworth by the Sea-A Marriott Hotel & Spa