Published on : Monday, August 16, 2021
The head of Minneapolis Northwest Tourism swears by Bellmont Partners, but she says that they wouldn’t turn over citywide tourism operations to them.
But one letter, in particular, appeared different.
Cyd Haynes, interim executive director of Minneapolis Northwest Tourism had written the letter. Haynes is working with the firm Larson on an active basis is set to have taken over the city promotion and thinks it would be a mistake.
“Visit Duluth has proven its ability to bring leisure tourist, sports events, conferences, and meetings into your area,” Haynes wrote in a request to the councilors.
For three Hennepin County cities, Haynes manages their tourism cities constituting roughly 188,000 residents. The Minneapolis-based Bellmont Partners is a part of that work, and touts it in its credentials.
“We hire Bellmont for a very small slice of our work, because of their expertise,” Haynes said in a phone interview Friday. “But we still have our own marketing team with our own marketing strategy.”
On Tuesday, Larson had declared that her plan to hire Bellmont Partners for the marketing and promotions of the city will be receiving a $1.8 million budget for 2022. Since 1935, Duluth has been the city’s promoter, would be offered a contract of $400,000 mostly to manage conventions. The plan of Larson would also be to create a new tourism, arts and culture position full-time at City Hall.
Every year, tourism brings an estimated 3.5 million visitors to Duluth and is a $780 million a year industry. The plan of Larson was met with dissatisfaction from throughout the community.
Tags: Minneapolis tourism
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