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<br />reconnendations. And I've enclosed among the handouts a copy of the letter that went to the
<br />Governor with the reconnendations, and so I guess we'll go one at a time and just go through
<br />each of these discussions. And again, this is a roundtable, feel free to throw out any
<br />reconnendations that we have, and we'll just start through that. Anyone want to volunteer to go
<br />first, or shall I just start working through the list?
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<br />Stephanie Dalgar - Stephanie Dalgar, Tourism Impact Task Force, and we had a number of
<br />reconnendations in the report for the governor. We _? _ basically keeping the public
<br />informed about travel (?) opportunities during times of drought and just promoting the
<br />recreational opportunities of Colorado. So to report on those reconnendations we started to put
<br />together a crisis connunications plan, which is really more of a proactive than. . .1 don't like the
<br />word crisis, but it's kind of what these plans are called. It really is taking a more pro-active
<br />approach to getting the problems _? _ out on the areas that would be specifically more hardest
<br />hit in time of drought, which are obviously the rafting industries, fishing, recreational fishing, and
<br />perhaps golf and streams as well. Those industries, aside from the wildfires, and what impact
<br />there may be on specific tourism areas, that's a whole other issue, which we addressed in crisis
<br />connunications plan as well. I hope to have that completed so that I can have a pilot _?_
<br />next month. The impact connittee is reviewing it right now, and I've asked them to plug in
<br />specific positive points and things that they are doing for their sectors, so let me highlight that.
<br />The other part of the program that we want as part of the crisis connunication plan is to involve
<br />the tourist industry as a whole. _? _ for positive stories that are going on in their areas. I am
<br />pleased to tell you that the few people I have spoken to in the Grand Junction area, Glenwood
<br />Springs, Clear Creek, have all reported that real tourism numbers are up so far, so as we move into
<br />the beginning of the summer tourist part of the year, we're feeling pretty optimistic. Of course,
<br />that changes from moment to moment as we all know. But we're looking for stories that are really
<br />not in their area but that are positive that we can help counteract any ofthe negative publicity
<br />we've had. It only takes one day of a negative story and 20 positive to kind of balance each other
<br />out, so the other part of this. . . the third part of this plan then is to put together a series of speaking
<br />points, which not only the tourist wants to _? -' but also can send out to the entire industry, so
<br />that everyone is reading the same language, sending the same language, no matter who they're
<br />talking to. Forth, on the Colorado.com website, we are going to start... we are in the process of
<br />implementing some series of pages that would provide updates to the two national parks, any fire
<br />damage to these places, and something relevant to the fishing industry, camping, and all the other
<br />needs, expect to have all that. Definitely by the end of June... (inaudible).
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<br />_ - In addition to giving conditions, will you also be directing to the good places to go? If
<br />they want to do recreation or if they want to do fishing, that type ofthing, so in addition to the "be
<br />careful" downside, Colorado is still open for business and these are good places to go.
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<br />Stephanie - The way we thought we might counteract this is having some blanket statement,
<br />because it's difficult for us to continuously update the website, we've implemented a new E-mail
<br />address called Industry and Colorado. com and we thought the best way was to have that email
<br />address and refer folks, to send any questions they may have, to that address, and then we can
<br />personalize our response to whatever the question is. I got an e-mail from somebody who was
<br />planning a trip to Winter Park and they had heard about all these fires in Colorado, and didn't hear
<br />anything, you know, what's going on? Is it still safe to go.. . are any of these near Winter Park? So
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