Traditional models have included a three per cent levy, or DMFs, to accommodation partnership organi

It was with excitement this week that we announced our new Quinte Accommodations and Attractions Partnership. With its mandate one way car rentals europe to support the efforts of both the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council, and our Eastern Ontario region of The Great Waterway, QAAP will allow our mainstays of tourism to start generating their own funding for the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council.
Its inaugural members: one way car rentals europe Ramada Inn Belleville, Holiday Inn Trenton, Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott Belleville, Best Western, and Holiday Inn Express Belleville will start collecting a one per cent levy on room sales beginning Jan. 1.
This will generate more than $135,000 to support much needed one way car rentals europe funding for the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council, area tourism and branding. Its membership open to 'any accommodator or attraction in the Bay of Quinte Region,' QAAP has the capacity in the region to generate more than $250,000 a year.
Traditional models have included a three per cent levy, or DMFs, to accommodation partnership organizations, such as Kingston's own Kingston Accommodation Partnership. However those organizations would conduct their own advertising campaigns, staffers, and website. This has worked detrimentally one way car rentals europe against the city's own efforts and against its Economic Development offices, and results in duplication of services, unneeded competition, one way car rentals europe and wasteful spending.
Bay of Quinte is doing it differently. one way car rentals europe QAAP's mandate is to completely 'support the initiatives of the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council'. That means money collected one way car rentals europe will will support initiatives, projects, festivals and events already being developed one way car rentals europe by Bay of Quinte Tourism with funding support from its area municipalities and through its website www.bayofquintecountry.ca.
The 13 member council is made up of representatives from Belleville and Quinte West municipalities, the Community of Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve, the Chambers of Commerce of PEC, Belleville, one way car rentals europe Quinte West, Napanee, and Brighton, and Partner Organizations Taste the County one way car rentals europe and the Quinte one way car rentals europe Economic Development Commission.
As I have stated before, it's not just for tourism; not just for summer. Our Economic Development offices are in the business of promoting the region for very similar reasons: attraction and investment.
This tourism for our chain hotels, therefore, includes mostly corporate travelers, groups, and offspring of economic one way car rentals europe development, which is why partnering with the Quinte Economic Development Commission and our municipalities truly has made sense.
Ryan Williams is President of the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council (www.bayofquintecountry.com), a director on RTO 9: The Great Waterway (www.thegreatwaterway.com) and General Manager of Best Western with Williams Hotels in Belleville. He tweets from @ryan_r_williams