Buffalo Niagara Tourism Industry News

The Buffalo Green Hospitality Initiative is launching several programs in preparation for the American Solar Energy Society National Solar Conference on May 5-18. 

Formed in August 2007, the goal of the initiative is to develop and maintain environmentally responsible practices and promote a green experience for travelers and conventions.

The CVB is helping to lead this effort and in doing so, has already attracted new events to our community such as this upcoming conference and 2010’s North American Association for Environmental Education Conference.

Beginning in May 2009, the Buffalo Niagara CVB and the Buffalo Green Hospitality Initiative will be launching three major programs. They are:

1. Food Composting – During the events at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center and at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the food will be composted for the first time.
2. Leafing a Legacy – As a local carbon offset, trees will be planted based on 88 hours of electricity used at the Convention Center. 
3. Buffalo Blue Bikes – Bicycles will be made available for convention delegates to borrow during the convention allowing visitors to get to downtown attractions using pedal power.

We all know that going “GREEN” is not just a fad, but a smart business decision. To the CVB, going “GREEN” not only saves our Earth’s valuable resources, but is a major component in attracting conventions, meetings and individual tourists to the financial benefit of our area.

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Check out this article from The New York Times about the hotel industry.

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Below are some documents related to the April Industry meeting.

Advertisement Letter

Coupons Attractions

Race for the Cure

Southwest Airlines

Welcome to Buffalo

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ATTENTION DOWNTOWN HOTEL PROPERTIES

The Elmwood Village Association would like to extend to you the opportunity to advertise in their 2nd edition of the “Elmwood Village Map & Guide”. Typically this brochure opens their advertising to Elmwood businesses only however with no hotel in the Elmwood area, they would like to extend this opportunity to a downtown hotel property.

For a hard copy of the Map & Guide, please email Becky Gandour at becky@elmwoodvillage.org

Please see this form with details and rates.

Support the Elmwood Village.

The 4th annual Online Revealed Internet Marketing Conference is coming to Niagara Falls, Canada April 13-15th at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel and Conference Centre.

Hear speakers from Google, Tripadvisor, Southwest Airlines, Marketwire, and many other online marketing professionals to teach workshops, present case studies and educate attendees about best practices in marketing online including; SEO (search engine optimization), Paid Search marketing, Social media marketing, online PR, Web analytics and more. Join 300 tourism professionals, technology suppliers, agencies, destination marketing professionals, hoteliers and more.

Produced by leading online marketing firm A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing, the conference has been produced in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and in the Caribbean over the past 4 years educating over 800 tourism and marketing professionals about how to market tourism online.

A special registration discount ($100 off) is being offered to Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau partners.

Click here to download more information.