TAP is published as a service to the hospitality, travel and arts industries by Museums Magazines (a division of The Art Knowledge Corporation), in cooperation with the Arts & Business Council, Inc. The newsletter is  available to professionals working with convention & visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce, hotels and tour companies, state and regional tourism agencies, and other aspects of the travel industry. It will be available to arts leaders as well.

Larry Warsh, Publisher of TAP, explained that the newsletter�s mission is to �help boost cultural tourism to new levels by reporting on key trends, citing the most successful partnerships, and offering useful information and tips.� 

For Gary Steuer, President and CEO of the Arts & Business Council Inc., "cultural tourism at its best is an ideal example of arts and business partnership--cultural groups collaborating with hospitality industry partners, and government, to build their revenue and visitorship. We are pleased to be a partner with Museums Magazines in creating a new resource for the many groups throughout the country working to strengthen the economy and the arts and tourism." 

�Cultural tourism offers a vivid demonstration of the power of cooperative activity and I look forward, through this periodical, to attracting new partners to an area of key significance to both the cultural and travel industries,� commented Alvin H. Reiss, editor of TAP.

A national network of city/regional magazines published since 1993, Museums Magazines are devoted to everything that�s happening at museums, offering in-depth coverage of museums in major metro-markets across the country. The company�s custom publishing division produces special destination guides�often for convention & visitors bureaus�aimed at promoting cultural tourism. Among its many public service activities designed to increase museum attendance, Museums Magazines also produces a network of Museums for Families magazines and regional Museum Calendars (launched in 2002), designed to encourage museum visits by children and families.

A national organization devoted to fostering partnerships between the arts and business, The Arts & Business Council, Inc. operates the American Express National Arts Marketing Project, which includes cultural training as one of its components, and the New York State Cultural Tourism Initiative, one of the leading statewide training and granting programs.

Alvin H. Reiss, who has been reporting on the arts field since 1962, has been named editor of TAP. Mr. Reiss, who is the author of seven books and hundreds of magazine articles on the arts, also edits America�s oldest continuing periodical for cultural administrators, Arts Management. He has presented lecture tours of a week and longer in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, British Columbia and the United States, as well as seminars and lectures on cultural tourism and other related topics in cities throughout the world.