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APPLICATION QUESTIONS <br />Please answer each question completely, in the order listed, on a separate sheet attached to <br />this application. Please include any supporting data within the response narrative. <br />1. Please provide a description of your project/event and identify the specific tourism <br />audience/market that your organization will target with these funds. You must include <br />an itemized list of exactly how any grant funds awarded will be utilized. <br />2. Please provide the following estimates of how any money received will result in <br />increases in the number of people traveling for business or pleasure on a trip: <br />I. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in <br />paid accommodations; <br />II. To a place fifty miles or more away from their place of residence or <br />business for the day or staying overnight; or <br />III. From another country or state outside of their place of residence or <br />business. <br />You must provide the evidence utilized in determining your projections. <br />3. What tools will you use to measure your event's impact on tourism? Please be specific <br />and provide examples. Include the following information: <br />I. Is your project/event year-round or is it seasonal or date -specific? <br />II. What strategies will you employ to assure you are attracting tourists from <br />at least 50 miles away? <br />III. What strategies will you use to assist in marketing all of Kittitas County as <br />a tourist destination with your event/project funding request? <br />4. Does your organization have, or have you applied for, grant funding from other sources? <br />If not, why not? If yes, please list the available funding you have for the project, <br />including any volunteer and in-kind sources, and/or the sources and amounts for which <br />you have applied. Please note which funding sources are secured and in hand so a true <br />matching fund determination may be determined. What changes would occur if the <br />project couldn't be funded? <br />5. If your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizations, <br />groups, or other events to cross -promote in an effort to encourage county -wide <br />tourism, how is this accomplished? <br />6. Please explain what plans exist to allow this project to become self-sustaining. Include <br />any plans for ticket sales, event sponsors, and other cost -recovery models. <br />7. Additional information: Provide any additional information which will assist the Lodging <br />Tax Advisory Committee in evaluating your project and its benefit to tourism. Please <br />limit any additional written information to one page and any other additional <br />attachments to 3 pages. Regardless of how much additional information is included, <br />only the first 3 pages will be provided to reviewers. <br />8. Project Budget: Please attach a copy of the complete budget for this project/proposal. <br />If your agency operates independently of this project application it may not be <br />County -wide Lodging Tax Application P a g e 110 <br />