{"id":21152,"date":"2013-05-14T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/seattle-southside-announces-group-of-hoteliers-as-2013-tourism-ambassadors-2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T09:31:00","slug":"seattle-southside-announces-group-of-hoteliers-as-2013-tourism-ambassadors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/05\/seattle-southside-announces-group-of-hoteliers-as-2013-tourism-ambassadors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Southside Announces Group of Hoteliers as 2013 Tourism Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Southside Visitor Services<\/a>, the official tourism department for the cities of Tukwila, SeaTac, Kent and Des Moines, presented the 2013 Seattle Southside Tourism Ambassador Award to the Seattle Southside Tourism Promotion Area Steering Committee at the Annual Tourism Networking Meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vickie Molzer, General Manager, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Seattle-Sea-Tac Airport;<\/div>\n
Frank Welton, General Manager, DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport & Hilton Seattle Airport and Conference Center;<\/div>\n
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Maureen Huffman, General Manager, Embassy Suites Seattle-Tacoma International Airport;<\/div>\n
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Perry Wall, General Manager, Clarion Hotel SeaTac International Airport;<\/div>\n
Michael Schabbing, General Manager, Courtyard by Marriott Seattle Southcenter;<\/div>\n
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Caroline Curtis, Director of Operations, BMI Hospitality Management;<\/div>\n
Scott Ostrander, General Manager, Cedarbrook Lodge.<\/div>\n
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For the past several years, Seattle Southside has honored individuals who do outstanding work for the Southside tourism industry. These Tourism Ambassadors go above and beyond the call of duty to support the tourism industry and our destination. This year is slightly different. Local hoteliers have been working on creating a Tourism Promotion Area for quite some time. A group of hoteliers formed a steering committee and they have been the driving force.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis group really believes in the value of tourism and the Seattle Southside program,\u201d said Katherine Kertzman, Executive Director of Seattle Southside Visitor Services. \u201cThey are such strong believers, they are willing to assess themselves in order to devote more funds to tourism promotion. I am so proud to have them represent Seattle Southside as this year\u2019s Tourism Ambassadors.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In 2012, travelers spent $625.7 million in Seattle Southside. That\u2019s an increase of 5.8% from the previous year. And it brought $63.8 million in local and state tax receipts. Employment grew by 4.6%, the strongest growth since 2005. There are now 5,240 jobs supporting the tourism industry in the cities of Des Moines, Kent, SeaTac and Tukwila generating $185.2 million in wages.<\/div>\n
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None of it would be possible without teamwork. Seattle Southside succeeds as a result of partnerships with each city and with each industry sector.<\/div>\n
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Tourism matters. Just ask our All Star Team of Ambassadors working together to create a Seattle Southside Tourism Promotion Area. With their powers combined they have the potential to increase travel and spending through targeted promotions and campaigns. These hoteliers welcome millions of guests to Seattle Southside each year and show them the true meaning of hospitality. Power in numbers indeed.<\/div>\n
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The Tourism Ambassador program was developed as part of the Why Tourism Matters<\/a> campaign created by Visit Seattle<\/a> and Washington State Destination Marketing Organization<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle Southside Visitor Services, the official tourism department for the cities of Tukwila, SeaTac, Kent and Des Moines, presented the 2013 Seattle Southside Tourism Ambassador Award to the Seattle Southside Tourism Promotion Area Steering Committee at the Annual Tourism Networking Meeting. Recipients: Vickie Molzer, General Manager, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Seattle-Sea-Tac Airport; Frank Welton, General Manager, DoubleTree by Hilton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}