Tourism Burlington Partners with ScreenScape to Promote Burlington as Destination for Winter Activities
Burlington, ON and Charlottetown, PE (PRWEB) January 28, 2010 -- Tourism Burlington has partnered with ScreenScape, a leading internet based Venue Networking solution, as technology provider for a multi faceted marketing effort to increase tourism to the Burlington area.
“The ScreenScape Community represents a significant promotional opportunity for Burlington to increase visitation to our city.” said Executive Director, Pam Belgrade. “With ScreenScape powered screen displays now being used in venues throughout the world, we see a fantastic opportunity to use this service in Burlington.”
As a member of ScreenScape, Tourism Burlington can now promote any of its festivals, services, and venues throughout the ScreenScape Community. For instance during an event, Tourism Burlington can use the ScreenScape service to present festival goers with coordinated messaging on screens in the venues throughout the city. This helps to inform tourists of a schedule of events, to direct them to local tourism operations, as well as to any special offers.
“Tourism Burlington is always interested in implementing new technologies to enhance the tourism industry, and are pleased to be the first destination marketing organization in Ontario to participate in this program.” said Belgrade.
“We’d like to welcome Tourism Burlington to the ScreenScape Community.” said ScreenScape President and CEO, Kevin Dwyer. “The ScreenScape platform is a natural fit for the tourism sector. Whether it’s by reaching out to partners abroad through the ScreenScape Community or by building a coordinated tourism marketing network in Burlington, ScreenScape will help boost their marketing efforts to increase visitation.”
About Tourism Burlington
Tourism Burlington is the city’s destination marketing organization and works with local tourism partners to promote tourism. This organization promotes the city through a variety of marketing initiatives as a first-rate business and recreational travel destination. Tourism Burlington’s staff and volunteers welcome visitors daily at the Tourism Burlington Visitor Centre located at 414 Locust St..
For further information:
Tourism Burlington
Phone: 905-634-5594 | Toll Free:1-877-499-9989 | Fax: 905-634-7220
414 Locust Street, Burlington, Ontario L7S 1T7
About ScreenScape Networks
ScreenScape is an Internet Service and Community that offers a smarter, simpler and more cost-effective way to use screen displays in your venue. Members of ScreenScape form a community of venues interconnecting to establish a shared resource and a marketplace for exchanging content.
ScreenScape Networks Inc.
(902) 368-1975 | http://screenscape.net
P.O. Box 291, 133 Queen Street, 3rd Floor, Charlottetown, PE C1A 7K4 Canada
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