The Area Coast Workplace of Tourism has kicked off a particular advertising marketing campaign to guarantee potential guests that Brevard County has averted the brunt of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole — and the county is totally open for tourism.
The marketing campaign — with the theme “Our Coast Is Clear” — is being added to the Workplace of Tourism’s digital promoting combine for at the very least the subsequent two weeks, in response to the company’s govt director, Peter Cranis.
The priority that triggered turning on this marketing campaign, Cranis stated, is individuals getting blended messages in relation to break within the seaside areas of Volusia County, and media experiences “which can be displaying homes falling into the seaside and issues like that.”
“Actually, from the lodge facet of issues, I am listening to individuals saying, yeah, , it would not harm for the subsequent few weeks to a month to run a few of this into the rotation,” Cranis stated. “So persons are completely clear that our seashores are open. We’re prepared to just accept visitors. We’re right here for you as a vacationer.”
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A 30-second video ad within the marketing campaign, for instance, exhibits scenes from Brevard’s seashores and Port Canaveral, with the message: “No storm can boring our shine. We’re open for enterprise. And for enjoyable. Need to do one thing optimistic? Easy. Take a trip.”
“It is a generic message, however it kind of tells the story with out essentially juxtaposing us towards some other vacation spot” which will have had storm injury, Cranis stated. “We’re simply making an attempt to indicate: ‘Hey, we’re right here. We’re open. We have nice issues to do. And we’re prepared to indicate you a superb time.’ “
The Workplace of Tourism used an identical strategy after Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
Brevard County Vacationer Growth Council member Keith Winsten, who’s govt director of the Brevard Zoo, expressed considerations on the council’s assembly on Wednesday that the marketing campaign could also be elevating pink flags about Brevard tourism when there isn’t any want to take action.
However Vacationer Growth Council member Christy Galzerano, common supervisor of the Doubletree/Hilton Backyard Inn Oceanfront Lodge in Cocoa Seashore, thought it was a good suggestion to run the marketing campaign to “get a message on the market.”
She stated many individuals from exterior Florida “are slightly bit geographically challenged,” and can’t differentiate between hurricane injury within the Daytona Seashore or Fort Myers areas, vs. the dearth of main injury in Brevard County.
The geographically restricted injury within the Melbourne Seashore space and seaside erosion alongside the Area Coast was nothing just like the injury that occurred in these different space.
“I get most likely at the very least 10 calls a day asking how our lodge is after the storm,” Galzerano stated. “Do we’ve got a seaside? They maintain asking.”
Galzerano stated the Workplace of Tourism ought to showcase Brevard’s extensive seashores, “in order that there is not any query that we are the place to return.”
She additionally stated the Workplace of Tourism ought to attempt to lure conference enterprise from storm-damaged areas just like the Fort Myers space, including that, “It is a actually nice alternative to tug some enterprise” to the Area Coast.
Based on Cranis, the clear coast marketing campaign will price about $50,000 over two weeks, “after which we’ll consider whether or not we have to proceed it or not.”
Area Coast tourism advertising is funded by Brevard County’s 5% vacationer improvement tax on lodge rooms and different short-term leases.
Workplace of Tourism Advertising and marketing Director Charity Stewart stated her workplace additionally continued with its common tourism branding marketing campaign throughout and simply after Hurricane Nicole, “and we’ve got not seen any dip within the efficiency” of these adverts.
Dave Berman is enterprise editor at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Berman at [email protected]. Twitter: @bydaveberman.
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