June 2009 Economic Development Report
Nelson County Department of Economic Development and Tourism
Board of Supervisors Report - June 2009
Projects
- Fish Virginia First Trail Unveiled
- Passport site for Virginia is for Lovers Motorcycle Grand Tour
- Economic Development Authority Business Appreciation Event May 14, 2009
- 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 20-21, 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
- Coordination of the Local Food Hub and Buy Local projects with EDA
- Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War Committee
- Working with Wintergreen Resort on marketing initiatives
May Meetings
May 5 – Virginia Commonwealth University – student intern
May 6- Mid Atlantic Brewers Guild
May 7 – Summer Solstice Festival
May 7 – Economic Development Authority
May 8 – Virginia Rail
May 11 – Wintergreen Resort
May 12 – Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureay
May 13 – Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
May 14 – Broadband Planning
May 14 – Business Appreciation Week Event
May 15 – Cultural Arts District Workshop
May 18 – Arts Trail
May 19- Broadband webinar
May 20 – Blue Ridge Parkway 75
May 22 – Blue Ridge Parkway 75
May 23 – Devils Backbone Brewing Company Mountain Bike Challenge
May 23 – Wintergreen Property Owners Town Meeting
May 26 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development
May 27 – Congressman Perriello
May 27 – Non Profit Workshop
May 28 – Department of Game and Inland Fisheries 5th anniversary event planning
May 28 – Brew Ridge Trail Festival
May 29 – Virginia Economic Development Partnership
May 30-31 – Nelson County Folk Life Festival
Montebello Fish Hatchery
689 visitors in May 2009
Tourism Statistics Fiscal
May 2009 YTD 2009 May 2008 YTD 2008
Phone 432 7,121 402 5,474
Internet 305,987 3,342,071 311,223 3,031,973
Walk In
Taxes April 2009 YTD 2009 April 2008 YTD 2008
Lodging $ 17,996 353,124 16,632 378,299