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Greetings!
The spring is a beautiful time of year to visit Cayuga County and the Finger Lakes. Nothing can cure cabin fever like trees budding, flowers blooming and lots of exciting activities and events throughout the county!
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| New York State Museum Week |  |
 I Love New York, in coordination with the Museum Association of New York (MANY) is launching a promotion of the New York State Museum Week 2012 program. The program will take place May 31-June 6, 2012 and has been designed as an easy and effective way to encourage the state's residents, as well as out of state visitors, to explore the breadth of the state's outstanding museums and heritage organizations. Museums or other cultural institutions that would like to be included in this promotion should contact Kelly Rabideau, krabideau@esd.ny.gov. She will need your contact name, email, phone number and web site url (to hyperlink to iloveny.com). By participating you agree to place a banner ad on your website or in your newsletter that links to www.iloveny.com/museumweek. If you have questions, contact Kelly at 518-292-5163 or at the email address listed above. |
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| Tourcayuga.com redesign | |
The Cayuga County Office of Tourism has completely revamped the tourcayuga.com web site to encourage more visitors to make Cayuga County their next getaway de stination. From crystal clear lakes to award-winning wineries to spectacular scenery and charming villages, Cayuga County has something for everyone to enjoy and the new tourcayuga.com web site does a great job in showing it all off. The site developed by Syracuse Design, makes it easy for visitors to find places to stay, things to do and where to shop and dine. A new feature is the 'farm-to-table' section, which helps visitors experience the rich agricultural bounty that comes from Cayuga County. Changing blogs, videos, and events keep the site fresh and encourage visitors to visit the site again and again. Room bookings can even be made directly from the tourcayuga.com site through Travelocity. Tourism partners are asked to place a link to tourcayuga.com on their websites to help visitors find their way to all the great places to stay and amazing things to do in Cayuga County. If you need assistance in linking, please contact maureen@tourcayuga.com.
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| Cayuga County loves groups! | |
The Cayuga County Office of Tourism has retained Break the Ice Media, a marketing communications firm located in Pittsford, NY to position Cayuga County as a premier destination for coach tours, meetings, conferences and other group business. Break the Ice Media has a solid background in tourism, most significantly coordinating the 14 Finger Lakes Counties public relations initiatives over the past two years. Key goals this year will be to develop a strategic marketing plan for the group market, that will include attendance at trade shows, targeted sales blitzes, familiarization tours, cooperative promotion and advertising, development of collateral materials, online marketing, and itinerary development. Break the Ice Media President, Nicole Mahoney and Marketing Assistant, Murphy Enos will be touring the county and meeting with group tour partners throughout April. Nicole can be reached at groups@tourcayuga.com.
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Save the dates
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- Our Annual Travel and Tourism Familiarization tour is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, 2012. This year's tour will highlight the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival with stops at all the theatre venues and presentations by the Theatre Festival staff. Anyone that deals with the traveling public should plan to attend this fun and informational tour. The tour is FREE but space is limited and reservations are required. Call 315-255-1658 or email barb@tourcayuga.com to register by May 7, 2012.
- The Cayuga County Office of Tourism's Annual Meeting will be held June 5, 2012 at Long Point Winery in Aurora at 4:00 p.m. This year's program will include guest speaker, Jim Trezise from the New York Wine & Grape Foundation as well as annual tourism award presentations followed by a wine tasting. All tourism partners are welcome to attend but reservations are requested. Please call or email Barb Murdoch, barb@tourcayuga.com, 315-255-1658.
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| News to Share | |
- King Ferry Winery's 2010 Treleaven Dry Riesling was awarded a double gold medal at the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition judged March 24 & 25, 2012 at the Rochester Plaza Hotel.
- 10 Fitch Bed & Breakfast has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence, which honors top-rated lodging, restaurants and attractions, as reviewed by travelers on the world's largest travel site.
- The Emerson Park Pavilion will open as a completely renovated facility on June 1, 2012, with its first private event on June 2nd. The June date will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Pavilion's original construction. A dedication ceremony, including a ribbon-cutting and community open house is planned for June 10, 2012
- The Aurora Inn & E.B. Morgan House received a 2012 AAA Four Diamond Award. Four Diamond accommodations are upscale in all areas and demonstrate a high degree of hospitality, service and attention to detail.
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Have news to share? Please submit your news to Meg Vanek, Executive Director, at
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Cayuga County Office of Tourism 131 Genesee Street Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: 315-255-1658 / 800-499-9615
Fax: 315-255-3742
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