Montana Promotion Division
2008 Montana Governor's Conference
on Tourism and Recreation
April 17-18, 2008
Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort
West Yellowstone, MT
After the 2008 Conference we will be posting the electronic presentations provided us by our conference speakers on this page. What you see below are the presentations from the 2007 Conference held in Helena.
Branding
and the New Age of Tourism
Presenter: Roger Brooks, Destination Development, Inc., Olympia, WA
Montana Tourism & Recreation Strategic Plan Update
Presenters: Lorraine Roach, Kate McMahon, Clint Blackwood, The Hingston
Roach Group, Inc., Grangeville, ID
Montana Travel Trends
Presenters: Norma Nickerson, Director, Kara Grau, Research Associate, Institute
for Tourism & Recreation Research (ITRR), University of Montana, Missoula,
MT
Public Lands
and Tourism – Glacier National Park: Going to the Sun Road Rehabilitation
& Recovery from Fall 2006 Floods
Presenter: Amy Vanderbilt, Glacier National Park, MT;
Public
Lands and Tourism – U.S. Forest Service Initiatives: Kids in the Woods
and The Outside In
Presenter: Margaret Gorski, Northern Region Headquarters, U.S. Forest Service,
Missoula, MT
Public
Lands and Tourism – Montana State Parks Projects Updates
Presenter: Joe Maurier, Parks Division, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks,
Helena, MT
Public
Lands and Tourism – BLM-Montana Partnerships on the Blackfoot, Madison
& Missouri Rivers
Presenter: Christina Miller, Bureau of Land Management, Billings, MT
Branding
Work Session
Presenter: Leesa Nopper, Marketing Works, Bozeman, MT
The
Past, Present & Future of Online Tourism Internet Marketing
Presenter: Susan Sweeney, the @-experts, New Bedford, Nova Scotia
What Works on
the Web? 60 Tips in 60 Minutes
Presenter: Susan Sweeney, the @-experts, New Bedford, Nova Scotia
Public Relations
101
Presenters: Mike Harrelson, Mercury Advertising, Bozeman, MT; Donnie Sexton,
Travel Montana, Helena, MT; Mike Mitchell, Partners Creative, Missoula,
MT; Brian Schott, Big Mountain PR, Whitefish, MT; Jean Arthur, freelance
travel writer, Bozeman, MT
Crown
of the Continent Geotourism MapGuide Project
Presenter: Steve Thompson, National Parks Conservation Association, Whitefish,
MT
Crown
of the Continent Geotourism MapGuide Project
Presenter: James Dion, Center for Sustainable Destinations, National Geographic
Society, Washington D.C.
RMI – Scandinavian
Promotion Efforts & Response
Presenters: Scott Balyo, Barbara Stafford, Mathias Jung, Rocky Mountain
International, Inc. (RMI), Cheyenne, WY
Civic Tourism –
Tourism as a Tool to Develop Healthy Communities
Presenters: Dan Shilling, Civic Tourism Project, Prescott, AZ; Mark McDermott,
McDermott & Associates, Fountain Hills, AZ
Wildlife,
Wolves & Wild Lands: Values of the Heart, Mind & Montana Economy
Presenter: Ken Sinay, Yellowstone Safari Company, Bozeman, MT
