Summary
The Mid-City Convention and Visitor's Bureau (CVB) is faced with low employee morale, relatively fixed current funding, a lethargic, patronage-style board of directors, an uninformed public, and the requirement to deal with a state legislature and disgruntled voters to increase its revenue. The manager of the CVB believes additional revenue is necessary to increase marketing efforts in order to bring in more conventions and tourists. To increase revenue, the manager of the CVB would like to raise the current room tax, which is the CVB's primary source of revenue, or institute a restaurant tax. Both the room tax increase and restaurant tax plans are opposed by associations that represent hotel/motel and restaurant owners and operators. In addition, passage of either of the taxes will require significant political maneuvering to implement. The manager of the Mid-City CVB is faced with a catch-22 situation: CVB revenue cannot increase without conventions and tourists, yet current funding levels will apparently not allow additional marketing to the conventions and tourists they are attempting to reach.
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The Mid-City Convention and Visitor's Bureau (Cvb)
THE MID-CITY CONVENTION AND VISITOR'S BUREAU (CVB)
The Honorable Fred Gann, Messrs. John Barnes, Ricky Bartholemew, Martin Hall, Robert Fulco, and Mrs. Debbie Jones have a common problem- how to improve the operations of the MidCity Convention and Visitor's Bureau (CVB) and encourage tourism in Mid-City. The mayor of Mid-City, the Honorable Fred Gann, appoints all members of the eleven member board. He realizes that he must appoint members that are willing to work in the best interest of Mid-City but, as is the custom, he...See the full content of this document
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