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1. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accommodations; <br />2. To a place fifty miles or rnore away from their place of residence or business for the day or staying overnight; <br />3. or from another country or state outside of their place of residence or business. <br />You must provade the evidence utilized in determining your projections. <br />Response 2.1 *Why would lourists lravel to Kiltilas County to allend your evertlacliviryltacility? <br />The Ellensburg Rodeo is the longest standing event in the Kittitas County. We work <br />hard each year to make this an amazing experience for our guesls. As shown by the <br />marketing this year, by targeting people irom many states away, we can increase <br />their overnight stay time and increase the amount ol rnoney speni in our County <br />overall. On our website we will provide links to what there is to do in Kittitas Courrty <br />and our bounce backs on ticket purchases will provide a link to invite people lo plan <br />to stay a while and explore all there is to do in Kittitas County. <br />2500 character limri <br />Response 2.2 *Descnbe lhe prior success of your evenl,/activilyllacilily in atlraclion toursts. <br />We are very proud to announce that ln 2023 we sold out of every single event we <br />had. We had numerous businesses point out that they had more business and could <br />see the increase in their business coming from the Fllensburg Rodeo guests. Our <br />goal is to continue to push a longer stay and make the rodeo attendees who buy <br />tickets aware of all there is to do in the County. For many years we have filled the <br />hotels and campgrounds, and we airr to continue to do so and our focus is to add on <br />to the nights people spend in the area by making them aware of all there is to do. <br />We will work with Matt and Amy ai the Kiititas County Chamber of Commerce to <br />have a trackable pixel showing the traffic that comes to the tourism sites from our <br />site. The ad campaign we ran in 2023 from these lunds increase our website traffic <br />by 339% during the dates of the 23rd oi June to the 31 st of July. <br />250O.hr.a.ler listil <br />Application Questions: Parl 2 <br />3[ lmpact <br />Response 3: <br />Measuring Results* <br />Describe how you will protrrole yoilr evenVactivilyllaciliiy lo atvact lourisls. <br />The ads we produce will have a mention in them about attend lhe Ellensburg <br />Rodeo:-as well as inviting people to plan to stay awhile and enjoy Central <br />Washington. All who purchase tickets will be given an invite to plan a stay in Kitlitas <br />County. This will include a link to plan your stay and we will coordinate with the local <br />tourism sile to have tracking on this page. The rodeo website will feature information <br />to plan your stay to link off lo and this will be available to all who click on our site, not <br />just people who buy tickets. <br />2500 characia. linit <br />Application Questions: Part 3 <br />4[Collaboration <br />lf your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizations, groups, or other events, how is this <br />accomplished?