Visit Moose Jaw Makes Progressive Steps to Showcase Moose Jaw
An Association of hotels, businesses, corporations and those like- minded, Visit Moose Jaw made an announcement on Thursday, February 8th that they are taking progressive steps in promoting Moose Jaw as a destination city for events, conferences and such.
“Visit Moose Jaw was started in 2014 and our goal has always been to be the most efficient organization,” said Chairman of the group, GM of Temple Gardens Hotel & Spa, David Wood.
He announced that they have hired Miss Paula Burns in a marketing capacity as Sales-coordinator. The idea that in this kind of capacity of promoting Moose Jaw, Wood said that it is hard to rely on volunteering only to get the job done so the decision was made to hire staff to work on the organization’s behalf.
“We want to showcase what Moose Jaw has to offer and Paula will be making recommendations to organizations as to the benefits of considering Moose Jaw as the city of choice for whatever event they wish to host,” said Wood. “An important part of our organization wants to build up a list of all the achievements Moose Jaw has seen [events, conferences, etc.; for ex. Hometown Hockey, Coors One-Horse Town Concert, etc.] so people will know [what we can do here.]
“We don’t have any problem bringing people back, it’s getting them here,” he said. Presently there are approximately seven different events that are seriously looking at Moose Jaw to hold their events. Burns says that one of the most important things is to pursue these opportunities and the hope is that in the next couple of months there will be announcements as to what they have secured, and more audacious things to come. Wood emphasized, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get! We want to offer new things for people to do.” Currently Visit Moose Jaw is made up of members: Comfort Inn Moose Jaw, Grant Hall, Heritage Inn Hotel & Convention Centre, Moose Jaw Exhibition Company, Mosaic Place, Temple Gardens Hotel & Span and Suburban Choice Hotels. Visit Moose Jaw is open to all organizations to get involved in. If you are interested in getting involved in making things happen in Moose Jaw, call 306.631.0059. Visit Moose Jaw has also secured an office at Mosaic Place that soon will be operational. You can visit their website at visitmoosejaw.ca for the latest information on all of Moose Jaw’s events and tourist attractions, as well as providing you with ideas of where to shop, eat and what to see and do! As well, the website offers a citywide RFQ to book your local conferences and events.
“We have a vested interest in Moose Jaw,” said Wood, “whereas we aren’t doing this for commercial reasons.”