Southeast Compass December 2011

SOUTHEAST COMPASS

Southeast South Dakota Tourism Association December 2011

IN THIS ISSUE

TOURISM CONFERENCE

2012 AD SPECIAL

Pheasant Fest 2012

Regional Marketing Assistance

Web Coop's

Member Spotlight

Link-Up with SSDTA

SOUTH DAKOTA

TOURISM CONFERENCE

January 18-19, 2012

A must attend event at the Ramkota Hotel in Pierre. The South Dakota Tourism Conference is an annual conference of networking, sessions for learning and fun time with your tourism friends.

Don't miss the SSDTA "Top of the Stairs" social in the Ramkota Lobby.

The South Dakota Wine Growers will have wine for you to enjoy along with some snacks and great networking with legislators and tourism friends.

Interested in helping sponsor this event? Contact Jacquie at 888-353-7382 or email jacquie.sesd@iw.net

Winner of our free conference registration is Diana McCann - The Cogan House.

2012 ADVERTISING

Last Minute DEAL

Ads for the South Dakota Vacation Guide are being taken for only a few more days. Get your ad or listing in TODAY or you will miss an entire year.

NEW
ADVERTISER SPECIAL
50% Off

Call Jacquie at 888-353-7382 or email jacquie.sesd@iw.net

Brochures and

Visitor Guides

Need a new brochure or does your old brochure need a face lift? Let SSDTA design your new brochure or community magazine.

Design costs just $50 per hour for SSDTA members. Call Cindy at 605-665-2435 or email cindy.sesd@iw.net

Join SSDTA Today! You get a Free 50-word listing in the 2012 Simply South Dakota.

Southeast South Dakota Tourism Association exists to increase the economic impact of the visitor industry in Southeast South Dakota.

Membership Info

Membership benefits

Southeast Tourism

Board of Directors

Cathy Buchheim President
Sioux Falls CVB
Mark Schilling Vice President
Corn Palace, Mitchell
Hannah Walters Sec/Tres
Mitchell CVB
Maureen Cashin
Vermillion Chamber
Thea Ryan
Outdoor Campus,Sioux Falls
Dawn Glover
City Manager, Elk Point
Jacquelynn Skotvold
Centerville Development Corp
Julie Gross
Madison Chamber
Don South
Strawbale Winery
Jason Bradley
Culvers, Mitchell
Emily McNamara
Wild Water West, Sioux Falls
Ryan Friez
Thunder Road, Sioux Falls
Jeff VanMeeteren
Lewis & Clark Rec Area, Yankton
Terri Schelm
Country Inn & Suites,
Dakota Dunes
Dennis Nelson
City of Freeman

Other Links

Southeast SD Tourism southeastsouthdakota.com

Great Lakes Region

www.sdgreatlakes.org

Glacial Lakes Region

www.sdglaciallakes.com

Black Hills Region

www.blackhillsbadlands.com

South Dakota Tourism
www.sdvisit.com
www.travelsd.com

Oyate Trail
www.oyatetrail.com

Missouri National
Recreational River
www.nps.gov/mnrr

A "Simply South Dakota" Christmas

Ahhhhh, Christmas, the time of rushing here and there, shopping, wrapping, decorating, baking and a house filled with relatives (naughty and nice).

This year I'm taking a step back. When I pulled out the four big boxes of decorations and started looking around at my "new" 130 year old home. I made a decision to close the boxes and put them away and do Christmas as it would have been 130 years ago.

I put a single candle in each window, decorated the tree in some of the homemade decorations from my children and grandchildren. I thought about how the family would have sat around the tree and sang Christmas carols and visited with each other. This year Christmas is going to be "Peace on Earth."

Thankful for the end of war, good health and good friends and family. Making this a Simply South Dakota Christmas, with a cup of hot cocoa, warm blanket and a book called Pioneer Cabin Christmas.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
- Jacquie, Executive Director

Our new website is under construction and we hope to see a January launch. We need your packaged vacation or get-away to give visitors some options in their travel plans. Create your package (we can help) and get it to us and we will put it on the website free and in our next visitor newsletter to over 5000 email addresses... FREE.

Submit your package here.

Are you following us on Facebook ? Follow us and send us your news and we will pass it along.

Put your event on www.southeastsouthdakota.com events calendar so visitors don't miss it. Get your 2012 events to us NOW and we will put them in the South Dakota Vacation Guide for FREE.

Call or email Jacquie at 1-888-353-7382 or jacquie.sesd@iw.net for last minute Ad Special. 2012 Advertising Rates/Specs

Pheasant Fest Sport Show

Pheasant Fest
Kansas City, MO February 17-19, 2012

SSDTA will have a corner booth at the Pheasants Forever, Pheasant Fest Travel Show. This is a great venue to tell visitors about the vast hunting opportunities in Southeast South Dakota and all the other things to see and do after the hunt.

We are seeking a couple of promotional partners to help man the booth and show your business or community to hunting enthusiasts.

SSDTA will pay for the booth and furnishings. Your cost would be $100 plus your own travel and meals. You may bring one brochure to hand out. We ask that you speak about the entire region to visitors as you work in the booth.

If you would like us to distribute your brochure for you, cost is just $25.

Contact Jacquie at 665-2435 or email at: jacquie.sesd@iw.net

SSDTA Seeking new Regional Marketing Projects

Looking for a few good projects!

Each year SSDTA chooses a few groups to assist with marketing. We attend their planning meetings, offer help with designing a brochure or advertising. We give our input on how they might increase visitors and how to track numbers of inquiries and visitors to their event or attraction. Please note that the assistance we offer is in marketing only, not overall event planning.

The projects we choose to assist must be non-profit, with a focus on drawing visitors to an event, community or area.

Past projects include the I-29 Cultural Corridor, Oyate Trail, Missouri River Corridor, Bash to the Colonies, Czech Days Festival, Lewis & Clark Golf Trail, and others.

If your group would like to be considered as a RMA project, please contact Jacquie at the SSDTA office at 665-2435. Projects are chosen by need for assistance and value of the effort to draw visitors.

Each project remains in the program for two to three years as we increase marketing efforts and track success.

Rules for RMA projects:

* Community or event must be a member of SSDTA

* Must be non-profit (not necessary to have a 501c3 status)

* Must have focus on drawing visitors to the event or venue in Southeast South Dakota

* Must apply to be considered. Contact Jacquie at: jacquie.sesd@iw.net

Coop Opportunities

Get Your Brochure On-line - Click Here to see other on-line brochures.

Advertising on southeastsouthdakota.com

Coop costs and more...

Web packages/specials/coupons - FREE Click here

Member Spotlight

Holiday Inn City Centre Sioux Falls Holiday Inn City Center

The Holiday Inn® Sioux Falls - City Centre

hotel is just a few steps from the banks of the

Big Sioux River and the unique shops, museums

and restaurants that line the streets of downtown.

Easy to explore Sioux Falls with the hotel's complimentary area shuttle.

Grille 100 and Verde Lounge

100 West 8th Street * Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Phone: (605) 339-2000 * Fax: (605) 339-3724 www.sfcchotel.com

Brochures at the Interstate Information Centers

Interstate Information Center Publication Program

Applications for the 2012 Interstate Information Center Publication Program are available online at www.sdvisit.com. There will be no brochure approval process this year, however, publications that do not meet the guidelines will not be displayed. Be sure to read the guidelines before completing an application by the April 1, 2012 deadline.

Link to www.southeastsouthdakota.com

Please consider putting a link on your website to Southeast South Dakota Tourism.

Your guests may be interested in what else there is to see and do.

Here's the link and logo

http://www.southeastsouthdakota.com/

Southeast South Dakota Tourism Association

exists to increase the economic impact of the

visitor industry in southeastern South Dakota.

A non-profit 501c6 membership based organization established in January 1987 by tourism businesses looking to pool resources to market the region. More...

Call 1-888-353-7382 or email: jacquie.sesd@iw.net

Phone 605-665-2435 Fax 605-665-8776
Jacquie Fuks, Executive Director

Southeast South Dakota Tourism Association
www.southeastsouthdakota.com

Coming Events!

DECEMBER 2011
Dec 17 "Holiday Jam with the Heggs" Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, 605-367-6000, www.washingtonpavilion.org
Dec 16-18 "Peter Pan" Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, 605-367-6000, www.washingtonpavilion.org
Dec 17 "Santa Saturday, Chili Feed, Bingo" Wessington Springs, 605-539-1541, www.wessingtonsprings.com
Dec 17 "Santa Day & Chili Feed" Avon, 605-286-3213, www.avonsd.net
Dec 17 "Wilde Women & Wine" Wilde Prairie Winery, Brandon, 605-582-6471, www.wildeprairiewinery.com
Dec 31 "Simply South Dakota Tasting Event" Delmont, 605-779-2621, www.delmontsd.org

JANUARY 2012
Jan 4-6 "Dakota Farm Show" DakotaDome, Vermillion, 507-437-7969, www.vermillionchamber.com
Jan 12 "Wine on the Wheel" Sioux Falls, 605-367-6000, www.washingtonpavilion.org
Jan 13 "Ain't Superstitious" National Music Museum, Vermillion, 605-677-5306, www.nmmusd.org
Jan 14 "Christmas with the Animals" Great Plains Zoo, Sioux Falls, 605-367-7003, www.greatzoo.org
Jan 14 "South Dakota Symphony: Mahler's Seventh" Sioux Falls, 1-866-681-7376, www.washingtonpavilion.org
Jan 14 "Women's Try it Day" Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, 605-362-2777 www.outdoorcampus.org
Jan 14 "Geocaching the Snowshoe Way" Newton Hills State Park, 605-987-2263, Newton Hills State Park
Jan 14-15 "Papermaking Class" SD Art Museum, Brookings, 605-688-4313, www.sdstate.edu/southdakotaartmuseum
Jan 19-20 "Women in Blue Jeans Conference" Mitchell, 605-996-9169, www.visitmitchell.com
Jan 20 "Young Frankenstein" Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, 605-367-6000, www.washingtonpavilion.org
Jan 20 "Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers" Sioux Falls, 605-335-6101, www.sfjb.org/
Jan 20 "Hornucopia" National Music Museum, Vermillion, 605-677-5306, www.nmmusd.org
Jan 21 "Beat the Blues" Sertoma Butterfly House, Sioux Falls, 605-334-9466, www.sertomabutterflyhouse.org
Jan 21-22 "Book Binding Class" SD Art Museum, Brookings, 605-688-4313, www.sdstate.edu/southdakotaartmuseum
Jan 24-28 "Sioux Empire Farm Show" Sioux Falls, 605-335-6101, www.siouxfallscvb.com
Jan 27 "The Autonomous Autoharpist" National Music Museum, Vermillion, 605-677-5306, www.nmmusd.org
Jan 27-28 "FunSki Winter Carnival" Great Bear, Sioux Falls, 605-367-4309 www.greatbearpark.com
Jan 28 "Ice Fish Fest" Catfish Bay, Sioux Falls, 605-339-0911, www.CatfishBay.com

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