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About the
Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council (CVC)
Mission:
The mission of the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council
is to stimulate the economy by promoting Santa Cruz County as a
visitor, conference and film destination through marketing programs
including advertising, promotion and visitor services. The priority
is on attracting high-yield overnight business during the off-peak
periods of the year.
History
of the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council:
The Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council was incorporated
in 1988 as a non-profit corporation (501(c)6). The CVC has a 24-member volunteer Board of
Directors. The Board is divided between geographic representation
across Santa Cruz County as well as maintaining balanced representation from government,
cultural interests and various sectors of the tourism industry (restaurants,
retail, lodging, attractions, etc.).
An
extensive community-wide process began in the fall of 1987, to reconcile
diverse interest in the tourism industry and local government and
to initiate a countywide approach to providing visitor services
and carrying out tourism promotion.
Leaders agreed that a community whose economy was so directly impacted by tourism needed such an agency with a countywide approach in order to be effective as well as to avoid duplication
of effort. The planning process involved participation from local government,
the cultural community and private industry and resulted in the formation of a newly structured tourism
agency now known as the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors
Council.
The Council's structure provides a governing
body expressing the interests of the governmental funding
sources, the tourism industry and the cultural community. This body provides a collaborative and mutually beneficial
partnership, governed and funded through a public/private partnership.
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