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| Lincoln County, Oregon - Dec 8, 1998 - Public
administrators, elected officials, business owners and tourism industry
leaders are being called together January 25 � 26, for the first Oregon
Coast Sustainable Tourism Planning Workshop hosted by Lincoln County�s
destination marketing organization, the Central Oregon Coast Association
(COCA). The two-day, hands-on workshop is bringing public officials
and business together, discussing long-range tourism planning efforts supporting
the Oregon Coast�s visitor industries according to COCA Executive Director,
Guy DiTorrice.
The planning workshop, themed �Coastal Tourism 2000�, will be facilitated by Senior Planner, David Bucy, former Oregon State University faculty member with extensive sustainable tourism planning experience throughout the western states. Oregon Tourism Director, Todd Davidson, will also be a special guest speaker at the �Coastal Tourism 2000� planning workshop. �Coastal Tourism 2000� planning workshop registration and participation information is available by contacting COCA at [800] 767-2064 or by eMail at �[email protected]�. The $125 workshop fee covers all session materials, breakfasts, lunches and breaks (with a discounted $100 early-bird registration through December 24). The �Coastal Tourism 2000� workshop is being held in Otter Rock (Oregon, just north of Newport) at the Inn at Otter Crest conference center. �The Oregon Coast tourism industry attracts visitors from all sorts of regions for many forms of visitor experiences. From outdoor recreation and eco-tourism, to major visitor attractions and retail centers,� DiTorrice notes. �We see this as an opportune time for planning how we sustain our tourism industry while maintaining the quality of life and visitor experience making us so attractive.� Bucy focuses on sound planning, commitments to follow through and by bringing all the key players to the table. �The more you can create and offer experiences that use, but don�t use up, your natural and cultural resources,� Bucy says, �the more sustainable the tourism component of your economy.� He explains that sustaining tourism will come from unique opportunities, low capital investment and �complementing, not competing with the attraction power of those resources.� Bucy�s workshop sessions include:
�Coastal Tourism 2000� is hosted by COCA, has been endorsed by the Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association and is sponsored, in part, by Oregon State Parks & Recreation. The Central Oregon Coast Association is a regional visitor marketing organization representing the unincorporated areas of Lincoln County and is funded, in part, by transient room tax revenues collected by Lincoln County. COCA provides free information for inquiring visitors, travel professionals and the travel trade media about rural Lincoln County accommodations, attractions, scenic features, recreational opportunities and annual events. COCA works cooperatively with the Chambers of Commerce in Yachats, Waldport, Newport, Toledo, and Depoe Bay as well as the Lincoln City Visitor & Convention Bureau, Oregon Tourism Commission and the Oregon Coast Visitors Association promoting year-round, overnight visitors to Oregon�s Central Coast. . For additional information, contact and on the Internet at �www.newportnet.com/coca�. |
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