April 2009 Economic Development Report

Nelson County Department of Economic Development and Tourism

Board of Supervisors Report

April 2009

 

Projects

  • Hosting April 2009 Virginia Tourism Summit at Wintergreen Resort
  • Passport site for Virginia is for Lovers Motorcycle Grand Tour
  • Crabtree Falls listed as one of 40 Free Things to Do in Virginia – Virginia Tourism
  • Planning Economic Development Authority Business Appreciation Event in May
  • Mentoring Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student on tourism impact project
  • Blue Ridge Parkway 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
  • Shenandoah National Park 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
  • Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail 5th anniversary celebration coordinator
  • Planning Amherst-Nelson Summer Solstice Wine and Farm Festival June 2009
  • Appointed to Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services local rural economic development directors committee
  • Coordinating Afton Greenwood historic district
  • Implementing regional brewery trail Brew Ridge Trail with Charlottesville Albemarle Tourism
  • Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development Broadband Planning Grant – final report submitted – economic stimulus funding opportunities research
  • Coordination Local Food Hub and Buy Local projects with EDA
  • Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War Committee
  • Working with Wintergreen Resort on marketing initiatives
  • Working with Dept. of Parks and Recreation on state Blueways Trail and state Fishing Trails

 

March Meetings

March 2-4 – New York City media tour with Virginia Tourism Corporation

March 3 – Regional brewery trail

March 5 – Wintergreen Resort marketing

March 5 – Economic Development Authority

March 9 – Regional brewery trail

March 10 – Economic Stimulus program webinar

March 13 – Broadband project

March 17 – Nelson County Chamber of Commerce

March 19-21 – travel writer

March 20 – Broadband project

March 23 – Broadband project

March 23 – Shenandoah National Park 75th anniversary celebration

March 24 – Broadband project

March 31 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development

 

 

Montebello Fish Hatchery

272 visitors in March 2009

 

 

 

 

Tourism Statistics                     Fiscal

                March 2009             YTD 2009       March 2008   YTD 2008

Phone       672                         5,555               574                  4,596

Internet     306,123                  2,732,883        307,253                       2,410,640

Walk In     625                         7,465               534                  9,948

                       

Taxes        February 2009        YTD 2009       February 2008     YTD 2008   

Lodging    $ 47,080                 320,674                       62,573                337,428

Meals        $54,101                  380,963                       57,341                356,889