September 2009 Economic Development Report

Nelson County Department of Economic Development and Tourism

Board of Supervisors Report

September 2009                                                                   

 

Projects

Broadband application

  • Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail 5th anniversary celebration coordinator – September 25, 2009
  • Redesigning tourism brochure and website
  • Submitted Broadband grant application for federal stimulus funds
  • Working with the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission on broadband grant application
  • Assisting with 2010 anniversary of the Virginia Scenic Rivers program
  • Coordinating tourism program for Lynchburg – DC TransDominion Express with regional partners
  • Assisting with Crozet Tunnel project
  • Assisting with Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival- August 22, 2009
  • Visitors Center is Passport site for Virginia is for Lovers Motorcycle Grand Tour
  • Blue Ridge Parkway 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
  • Shenandoah National Park 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
  • 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
  • Assisting with Buy Local projects w
  • Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War Committee
  • Working with Wintergreen Resort on marketing initiatives

 

August Meetings

August 3 – Amherst Nelson Summer Solstice Festival

August 4 – TransDominion Express

August 6 – Economic Development Authority

August 11 – Afton Mountain Winery

August 17 – Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival

August 17 – Buy Local

August 18 – Charlottesville-Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau and Community Development

August 18 – Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission

August 22 – Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival

August 25 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development

August 26 – Buy Local

August 27 – Wintergreen Resort

August 27 – Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War Committee

August 28 – Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival

August 31 – Virginia Scenic Rivers

 

Montebello Fish Hatchery

647 visitors in August 2009

 

 

 

Tourism Statistics                     Fiscal

                        August 2009                YTD 2010       August 2008   YTD 2009

Phone              568                              1,178               701                  1,275

Internet            308,009                                   614132                        275,333                       592949

Walk In            1,176                           2,731               1,130               2,212

 

                       

Taxes               July 2009                     YTD 2009       July 2008         YTD 2008  

Lodging            $34,218                      34,218             49,303             49,303

Meals                $53,352                      53,352             55,020             55,020