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Chamber releases report for Fee for Visitor Services contract with the city
The Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce today released its 2013 annual report on the fee for visitor services contract that it holds with the City of Cranbrook.
This contract, which has been in place for many years, requires the chamber to provide a range of visitor services on behalf of the people of Cranbrook each year. These services include: providing information to visitors and operating the two visitor centres; promoting Sam Steele Days (and other similar festivals); developing tourism materials (often in partnership with others), brochures and hosting dignitaries; and operating and maintaining the City of Cranbrook float (pictured above).
The annual report was released by Dave Butler, President of the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce. “I am pleased that we’re able to report out on the wide range of visitor-related services – both inside and outside the community – the Chamber provides under this contract,” said Butler. “And most importantly, it’s important to point out that for $86,800 that the city pays the chamber, the return amount is $$246,512 in equivalent services. That’s an impressive return on investment.”
Butler noted the hundreds and hundreds of volunteer hours that flow from the contract and he pointed to the wide exposure that Cranbrook receives throughout Western Canada and the northwestern United States via tourism publications, the work of the visitor centre volunteers, and through the extensive travels of the Sweethearts of Sam Steele and the Cranbrook float.
“We truly appreciate the fact that Cranbrook’s City Council has confirmed – through its recent Five Year Financial Plan – that we will again provide these services to the community in 2014,” said Butler. “Our staff and volunteers look forward to another great year.”
The 2013 Annual Report on the Fee for Visitor Services Contract is available on the Chamber’s web-site at: http://cranbrookchamber.com/
For more information, please contact the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce office at: 2279 Cranbrook Street North (PO Box 84), Cranbrook, BC, Canada V1C 4H6; Phone (Local) 250-426-5914 and email [email protected].
Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce
