Recognizing that some people believe ”Live it Up!” doesn’t live up to the city’s potential, the Community Branding Task Force will meet after Thanksgiving to consider advice from local designers who have protested that the new logo is amateurish and trite. “We are open to making this better,” said Doug Price, president and CEO of [...] [...]
Last week the Business Journal reported about the Convention and Visitors Bureau’s refusal to disclose details about how it plans to spend the $2.4 million in tax money it is getting from the city this year. The story revealed how blindly the Colorado Springs City Council and CVB board accept that if-asked-don’t-tell situation. During the [...] [...]
Doug Price, CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, calls tourism the “invisible industry,” and based on his policy for sharing how the CVB spends public money, he intends to keep it that way. Despite the fact that taxpayers provide the CVB its money, Price has declined to release information about his own [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau has hired a consultant to help rev up its marketing strategy. President and CEO Doug Price is scheduled to discuss part of the CVB’s branding strategy during an informal City Council meeting Monday. “The resulting brand platform will provide direction and focus for our advertising, promotion and sales [...] [...]
We’re all just getting to know Doug Price, the new chief of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, but I’ve discovered something about him that should resonate with many: Several years ago, while still living and working in Washington, D.C., Price was in the Springs on a business trip and, as he tells it, was walking [...] [...]
Targeting tourists, conventioneers After struggling through deep budget cuts last year, the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau has put its marketing efforts into high gear. To pull it off, the CVB increased its marketing budget by 32 percent, from $895,606 to $1.18 million. It was able to do so because its share of the [...] [...]
The base salary for Doug Price, the new CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, might seem like a fortune compared to the region’s median household income of $52,984. But it’s considerably less than what visitors bureau CEOs in other like-sized cities earn, and it appears to be about the same as his [...] [...]
by Rebecca Tonn Published: December 17,2010
Tags: Doug Price
The Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau will go through a leadership change next month when Doug Price takes over for the retiring Terry Sullivan. The Business Journal this week surveyed key players in the hospitality industry, asking them what they think Price should do to attract more leisure and business traffic to the city. [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau has been awarded accreditation from the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program, or DMAP. The CVB has been working to achieve this accreditation since May. Such credentials are an important milestone for the bureau, and can help it when marketing the community across the nation and internationally. There are 16 standards that [...] [...]
Business was lagging at Marriott Corp. Meeting planners had become reluctant to book conventions at its hotels, and management couldn’t figure out what the problem was. So they asked Doug Price for help. Price, an executive with Destination Marketing Association International in Washington, D.C., will succeed Terry Sullivan as CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention [...] [...]
Loading ...
