WHY A BUSINESS SHOULD JOIN THE DALLAS CVB

1. With more than 27 million people coming to the Dallas Fort Worth Area each year, visitors are what makes our destination thrive.
2. Leisure visitors have made Dallas the #1 destination in Texas- not San Antonio.
3. Business visitors have made Dallas the #1 destination in Texas- not Houston.
4. Visitors spend more than $8 billion in cash each year in Dallas. This creates an economic impact of more than $11 billion. This "discovered" money makes restaurants, hotels and stores flourish!
5. For what you might pay for a newspaper advertisement for one week, you can join the Dallas CVB and receive a listing with will reach millions of visitors!
6. Unlike advertisements, membership in the Dallas CVB gives you additional tools to be proactive: networking events, workshops, research and regularly updated convention calendars!
7. The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau sells Dallas! No other organization markets Dallas at regional, national and international trade shows. The Dallas CVB also works with travel and consumer magazines and averages 25 contacts from national and international radio, TV, magazines & newspapers per day.
8. While other magazines and guides target Dallas visitors, your membership investment with the Dallas CVB helps bring more visitors to our city!
9. The Dallas CVB motto could be "If it is to be, it is up to us." Our member businesses are community ambassadors, highlighting an incredible variety of cultures, fashions and tastes. Dallas is widely admired for its success with visitors, and its CVB works hard year round to bring visitors and their money to Dallas.
10. In 2005, over 350 meetings, conventions and tradeshows met in Dallas!
11. Visitor dollars have a huge impact. Ask Galleria Dallas what makes June and July shopping days more lucrative than many Decembers.
12. The visitor and hospitality is growing! 100,000 people here are employed in this sector.
13. You can consider the Dallas CVB as an extension of your own staff. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you can benefit from our expertise.

For more information on Marketing Opportunities, contact Steven Aydt at 214-571-1083

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