May is Ohio Tourism Month! Are you sharing your tourism story?

The countdown is on for the official launch of Ohio’s innovative new tourism advertising campaign and Ohio Tourism Celebration on May 13 at the Ohio Statehouse! Please join Governor Strickland, Lt. Governor Fisher, Legislators, Ohio tourism association leaders, the Ohio Tourism Division and more than 70 groups of your tourism industry peers for the press conference at 11:00 a.m. followed by the Ohio Tourism Celebration from 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

If you are celebrating tourism in your community on the 13th, you can still see the press conference live on the Web. Tune in at 11:00 a.m. on the Ohio Channel.

If you could use some help telling your local tourism industry story, check out the Ohio Tourism Month Online Toolkit. Here you can find samples of press releases, a resolution/proclamation, a letter to local officials and more.

We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to celebrate what tourism brings to Ohio’s economy and quality of life on both the state and local levels. Please feel free to forward this message on to your tourism partners. Let’s join together and tell Ohio’s tourism story. Hope to see you at the Statehouse on May 13!