Colorado Tourism Day Jan. 29, bus taking Springs residents
A tour bus is leaving Colorado Springs for the state capital Jan. 29 and the leader of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau is hoping its full. Doug Price, CVB president and CEO, is taking reservations for a seat on the bus, which is taking folks to Colorado Tourism Day Jan. 29 at the [...]
It’s difficult to believe that I have been residing in Colorado Springs for nearly two years. I am proud to call this community home and excited with what has been accomplished during my tenure. I’m pleased as I look ahead to 2013, especially after the challenges faced in 2012. After my hire at the Colorado [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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. [...]
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