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--- Former Tall Ship Captain of Amistad
Will Speak At
Packer Country Tourism Luncheon May 3
--- New Tourism Stats Released
---"Be A Tourist In Your Hometown"
Passports For Sale
GREEN BAY, Wis.
April 21, 2005
GREEN BAY, Wis. (April 21, 2005) –
The Packer Country Visitor and Convention
Bureau welcomes Captain Bill Pinkney as
guest speaker for the annual Packer Country
Tourism Luncheon May 3, 2005, 11:30 a.m.
- 1:30 p.m., at Howard Johnson Inn and Conference
Center, 2580 S. Ashland Street.
Cpt. Pinkney, a former executive at Fortune
500 and ASE companies, became the first
African American to sail solo around the
world in 1992. Pinkney made his boyhood
sailing dream a reality, and his amazing
journey became an award-winning TV program
narrated by Bill Cosby.
Pinkney is also the former Master of the
recreated freedom schooner Amistad, and
delivers a powerful message about the struggle
for human rights based on events that have
become known as the Amistad Incident of
1839. These events changed the Human Rights
Policy of the United States.
The Packer Country Visitor and Convention
Bureau has partnered with other local agencies
for the past four years to organize historic
Tall Ship events which have drawn thousands
to downtown Green Bay, including the Baylake
Bank Tall Ship Festival in July 2004.
The group is now working on plans for
a large-scale Tall Ships festival for 2006
in Downtown Green Bay.
Although Pinkney’s ship, Amistad,
has not been to Green Bay’s port,
the schooner sailed throughout the Great
Lakes with Pinkney at the helm from 2000
to 2003.
“Green Bay’s Tall Ship events
have been very positive for tourism in the
past and serve as a reminder that Green
Bay is an international port city,”
said Kari Sliva, President and CEO of the
Packer Country Visitor and Convention Bureau.
“Visitors have enjoyed coming down
to Green Bay’s riverfront and connecting
with our maritime heritage. Each of these
incredible ships tells a fascinating story
that’s educational in and of itself.
Families and couples and individuals leave
our Tall Ship events with an experience
they will never forget.”
Amistad is one vessel comprising a fleet
of 230 ships that sail around the world
participating in a wide variety of races
at sea and port events in association with
the American Sail Training Association (ASTA).
The Packer Country Visitor and Convention
Bureau has utilized the tagline “Sports
& Ports” since 2001 in a wide
variety of promotions to attract visitors
to the region.
The Packer Country Visitor and Convention
Bureau will also announce the results of
the latest tourism statistics and trends
for the region at the luncheon. Travelers
to the area spend $646 million annually
on shopping, lodging, recreation, food,
and transportation, making tourism among
the top three industries in the region.
Remember, "Life's So Good" in
Wisconsin!
The luncheon kicks off See America Week
(formerly National Tourism Week.)
Please let us know if you are interested
in joining us for the Packer Country Tourism
Luncheon by Monday, April 25th. Tickets
are $35. Questions and RSVPs can be directed
to Briana Petersen at 405-1153 or briana@packercountry.com.
The Packer Country Visitor and Convention
Bureau is also sponsoring a Passport booklet
encouraging local citizens to “Be
A Tourist In Your Hometown.”
The Passport costs $10 and gains the entire
family free admission to 14 exciting tourism
attractions in the region May 14-15, 2005.
The Passport also contains valuable coupons
worth more than $600, which are valid through
Dec. 2005.
Additional prize drawings will be held
for Green Bay Packers tickets, overnight
accommodations and golf at Fox Hills Resort,
a suite for Disney on Ice at the Resch Center
courtesy of PMI, and a two night’s
stay and waterpark passes to the Tundra
Lodge Resort and Waterpark.
"How many times have you said to your
family, 'we have to visit that place someday?’
Here's your chance to take advantage of
the free hospitality, history, entertainment
and just plain fun tourists enjoy when in
Green Bay,” said Peter Chapman, Executive
Director of the National Railroad Museum
in Green Bay and Chairman of the “Be
A Tourist In Your Hometown” Steering
Committee.
"What better way to discover the Green
Bay area than to visit without charge? It's
an ‘open house’ to our neighbors
that we hope they'll take advantage of,"
said Chapman, who also serves on the Governor’s
Council on Tourism.
Passports may be purchased at any of the
following locations:
- Bay Park Square Mall
- Cub Foods (East & West Green Bay)
- Green Bay Botanical Garden
- Hazelwood Historic House Museum
- Heritage Hill State Park
- Historic Washington House
- Lighthouse Inn
- National Railroad Museum
- Neville Public Museum
- NEW Real Estate Office (Kewaunee)
- On Broadway Inc
- Oneida Nation Museum
- Packer Country VCB
- Rola Rena
- The Flying Pig
- The Old School
- von Stiehl Winery
For more information on purchasing Passports,
and learning how to “Be A Tourist
In Your Hometown,” call the Packer
Country Visitor and Convention Bureau locally
in Green Bay at 920-494-9507, or toll free
at 888-867-3342.
For more official tourism information on
the Green Bay Area and Lakeshore communities,
visit www.packercountry.com.
Wisconsin--- Life's So Good!
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Packer Country Visitor & Convention Bureau is the regional destination marketing organization committed to improving the visitor experience and increasing the economic impact of tourism to its communities. For more information call 888-867-3342 or visit us online at www.packercountry.com.
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