11-12-08 Clayton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Hosts Week-Long Media Tour

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2008

Clayton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Hosts Week-Long Media Tour

The Clayton County Convention & Visitors Bureau hosted a week-long media tour on October 21-24.
A media tour is simply a method for taking your message to a variety of communication outlets without purchasing traditional advertising. The tour entitled “The Spirit of the South- The Winds of Change” showcased all historical assets as well as new features Clayton County has to offer. It helped create exposure for all local hospitality assets.

The venues selected to participate in the media tour were Spivey Hall at Clayton State University, Arts Clayton Gallery, Road to Tara Museum and Southern Belles & Whistles Tour, Pinehurst Tea Room, Georgia Archives, National Archives SE, The Feed Store, Truett’s Grill, Reynolds Nature Preserve, Atlanta State Farmers Market and Stately Oaks Plantation. The host hotel was the Comfort Suites in Stockbridge.

 “Clayton County has a good story to tell and we gave these 12 travel writers a taste of our area, an opportunity to experience the diversity of tourism products we have, a glimpse into our history and heritage and a chance to not just hear about it, but to experience it,” said Patrick Duncan, president of the Clayton County CVB. “Members of the hospitality community really stepped up and hosted these writers with a flair of Southern hospitality while they were here and I appreciate that we were able to show these writers who we are and who we were.”

The eleven travel writers were hand-picked to tour Clayton County, its attractions, restaurants and overnight accommodations. These eleven media were from Florida, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, North Carolina and Illinois and represented mediums from across the United States.  The media they represented were newspapers, magazines, internet sites, and radio shows and their stories will be coming out at different times throughout the next year.
“I believe we left them with fond and lasting memories of Clayton County and our surrounding area,” added Duncan. “The stories they are writing and publishing are a reflection of the positive impression we left on their minds.”

If anyone would like to view copies of the resulting stories, log onto www.visitscarlett.com. All stories will be posted under the press section of the site as soon as the CVB receives them.

The Clayton County Convention & Visitors Bureau is the official tourism marketing agency for Clayton County. The CVB advertises and promotes the area to bring business to hotels, attractions, historical sites and meeting facilities within Clayton County and its neighboring communities.

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Contact:
Megan Spears
Clayton County CVB
(678) 610-4242
megan@visitscarlett.com