Stakeholders
As a Destination Marketing Organization, Travel Columbia Valley positions the region as a great place to discover and find more. Led by industry and guided by a volunteer Board of Directors, we market tourism operators including accommodators, activity providers, retail and restaurants through a variety of marketing tactics.
Travel Columbia Valley strives to increase year round visitation, amplify events, support local businesses, showcase tourism operators, invest in community nonprofits, and conduct destination development strategy.
The Travel Columbia Valley team works through traditional, digital, and social media forms to connect with future and returning visitors. We encourage our visitors to stay longer and explore more through the Columbia Valley and all of its fantastic amenities and operators.
How to Work with Travel Columbia Valley
The Travel Columbia Valley team works with tourism operators to promote responsible tourism to the Columbia Valley area. Tourism stakeholders in the area are encouraged to engage with the Travel Columbia Valley team. See below to find the right fits for your business!
Accommodators, activity providers, retail, and restaurants are featured on TravelColumbiaValley.com. Make sure your information is up to date by sending any business updates and photos to media@travelcolumbiavalley.com.
List your event on the Travel Columbia Valley events calendar! This calendar is frequently visited on the Travel Columbia Valley website by visitors and used by frontline staff to direct visitors to upcoming events. Please send event information, photos, dates, times, and a link.
List your packages & promotions on our Promotions page. Operators can list their promotions for activities, adventures, accommodation, and restaurants for free on this page.
Travel Columbia Valley has intermittent co-operative advertising opportunities in a variety of publications, social media, and digital advertising campaigns.
Are you looking for fresh content for your business? Consider collaborating on a photo or video shoot with the Travel Columbia Valley team. We work regularly with photographers and videographers throughout the year to capture Valleywide assets.
Do you have great photos or videos? We’d love to share them on TravelColumbiaValley.com and our social media pages. Please send any high quality images and content to media@travelcolumbiavalley.com.
Media visits are a great way to build an audience for your business. Travel Columbia Valley works with media through a variety of outlets and platforms throughout the year. If your business has a story to tell, please reach out to us as we are always looking for new stories to pitch as a part of our media relations strategy. If you are interested in hosting media, please reach out to our team to let us know that you’d like to be included on a media itinerary.
If your business is interested in hosting a media visit, content creator, or influencer, reach out to our media team at media@travelcolumbiavalley.com for support and more resources on finding the right fit for your business.
The best way for Travel Columbia Valley staff to tell the story of your business is to experience it firsthand! The marketing and visitor services teams at Travel Columbia Valley regularly embark on FAM trips to learn more about the available tourism products and experiences.
We want to share your posts! Make it easier for us to share and support your businesses’ great content by tagging @travelcolumbiavalley and #TravelCV.
Use Facebook’s event creation function to allow Travel Columbia Valley to seamlessly share your event to our Facebook page for increased visibility.
Travel Columbia Valley has a large collection of blog stories, videos on YouTube, trip planning web pages, and social media posts. Leverage these marketing resources for your business! Share a Facebook post to your page, include a link to the “Things to Do” page on your website, share a blog in your newsletter, or embed a YouTube video on your website.
If you are a tourism operator or stakeholder in the Columbia Valley, subscribe to our industry newsletter to stay in the loop on learning opportunities, industry events, funding opportunities, content calls, and more. Please send a note to media@travelcolumbiavalley.com to subscribe to the newsletter.
Contact Us
We’d love to hear from you! Please reach out to the Travel Columbia Valley team to share more about your business and how we can best work together by contacting media@travelcolumbiavalley.com.