Chamber Vision January and February 2018 | Page 26

26 January and February 2018
Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau
Bureau Business
Happy New Year Emporia! The Emporia CVB staff is ready to get this new year
started. We ended 2017 with some award-winning results for our marketing efforts
and plan to see even better results in 2018! The awards received by us at the state
tourism conference confirmed that we are getting the attention of visitors in a very
special way. As we said before, “Kansas is a State of the Union, Emporia is a State of
Mind. We will raise more hell and fewer dahlias.” What does this mean? It means we
will keep pushing Emporia as a place where people ride bikes, play disc golf, enjoy
Susan Rathke
CVB Director
live music and the arts, and enjoy being in a friendly city where people look you in the
eye and smile!
The job of the Emporia CVB is to market this city as a destination for visitors,
enticing them to shop, eat, play, and sleep here. We look to the outside of Emporia
for those visitors, many coming from all over the country and internationally.
I’d like to thank our Emporia tourism partners; hoteliers, attraction managers, city
and county government, event planners, restaurant and retail managers, civic and
service organizations, volunteers, members of the Convention and Visitors Advisory
Board and all the welcoming and generous citizens in Emporia that help make this
city so great.
We are looking forward to continuing the promotion of Emporia in 2018 as the
award-winning city that it truly is. The Emporia Convention and Visitors Bureau
is here to assist you with event planning. For tours, meetings and conventions,
weddings and reunions, we are ready to help. And for those looking for grants to
assist with their events in 2018, the 1st application deadline is February 1. Get the
application online at visitemporia.com or stop in to get an application.
Invite friends and family to Emporia and help our tourism efforts. Stop in at the
Emporia Visitors Bureau in the Trusler Business Center, 719 Commercial for free
maps, guides, and friendly people to answer your questions. Let us know what we can
do for you!