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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 />ecause we are new to this opportunity we will work with community business owners to create <br />sitor information displays to cross promote activities not only happening in the county but our city. <br />fe will measure those displays by the distribution count of the information that is placed in those <br />splays. We will be able to track those number. <br />fe will encourage the business owners to provide an incentive for those visitors taking information to <br />)me to their businesses to shop or dine. Examples of those incentives can range from discounts, <br />)upons, etc. We will communicate monthly to get those numbers from the participating businesses. <br />ther business will be asked to have log book available for visitors to put in information such as <br />wiling address, email, zip code, how they heard about our city, etc. Additionally, we will make sure <br />at we encourage the employees of the businesses to have superior customer service, training, <br />miliarization of the other things to do in the county and our city. We will assist all tourism efforts by <br />3rticipating in the current tourism campaigns and link them on our new website, social media <br />cares, etc. In order for the implementation to work well we will do this project early spring and <br />arketing throughout the rest of the year, making this project a year-round project. <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 />We do not have secured funding sources, but we are at the beginning of the process. We <br />will use our resources and see if we qualify in several state, federal grants and we will <br />create a support program with the business to help offset the expenses that will be in the <br />future like beautification, benches, landscaping, etc. As all cities and municipalities we will <br />have volunteer hours to track and report. Being conservative we project 1600 hours from <br />volunteers that will be involved in events, community cleanup, etc. 1600 x 28.99 = value of <br />46,384 based on the number from independentsector.org. If we are not successful with this <br />grant and other grants, we will have to work harder as a city and take it upon our shoulders <br />to do some of the project. We are determined to narrow our focus and draw people to our <br />city. <br />County -wide Lodging Tax Application P a g e 111 <br />