More Good News

The national media has discovered Buffalo in a big way. In the last three days, both the New York Post and The New York Times have published glowing articles about our community. You can check them out here:
New York Post
New York Times

By the way, the Times piece was introduced in the Table of Contents as follows:

“Art biennials, big-ticket concerts, major new buildings — the culturati are going to be on the move this summer. What’s worth the trip? T surveys the global artistic landscape and picks the best of the best.”

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Article from the New York Times – “More Hotels Facing an Uncertain Future”

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

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New York Times and National Trust for Historic Preservation Recognize Buffalo

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past week, you should’ve heard about the two latest accolades that Buffalo has received.

Last week The New York Times published their annual list of 44 Places to Visit in 2009 where Buffalo ranked #37 amongst a list of worldwide destinations.

Followed by yesterday’s reveal that Buffalo was named one of the Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2009 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

We strongly encourage you to download the Dozen Distinctive Destinations logo from our website and use the logo within your emails or added to your letterhead for 2009. It’s a wonderful honor to receive and once again puts Buffalo on the map for reasons other than our weather. Wherever you place the logo on your website, please link it to the press release on the CVB website. The link is below:
http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/media/press/NTHP_dozenDistDest2009.asp

To download logo from the CVB site:

1. In a browser, go to ftp://guest@38.101.42.34

2. When prompted, use guest as your user ID and buffalocvb as your password

3. Click on the from_cvb folder

4. Click on the file Distinctive Destination 2009.zip and when prompted, choose “Save file as” and save it to your hard drive.

Alternately, you can use WSFTP, Transmit or another FTP program to download the files.
Host: ftp://guest@38.101.42.34
Username: guest
Password: buffalocvb

There are specific instructions included in the logo file for how the National Trust wishes it to be used, and we urge you to follow them.

 

Buffalo’s Making Headlines

Many of you have probably seen the article for yourself, or at the very least heard the buzz, about Buffalo’s architectural gems being featured in a three page spread in The New York Times.  For those of you that may have missed it or want to see it in its entirety, feast your eyes on this priceless publicity.