Sedona, AZ — 4/26/23, 8:42 AM City Doing The Right Thing With Destination Marketing Sedona.biz Research proves many of these are opinion based, not factual pertaining to the Sedona Chamber and the City of Sedona. Headlines such as “Sedona must repeal the 0.5% bed tax if no plans to spend on marketing” have created knee-jerk emotional…
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Sedona City Bed Tax No requirement to market Sedona
There has been so much misinformation on Sedona City Bed Tax being generated from the Sedona Chamber. April 12, 2023, Sedona City Council Meeting, the City Attorney, Kurt Christianson, explained that based upon ARS 9-500.06 law, it is a City Tax, not a pass-through tax. The Council has all rights to keep it in place….
Sedona Chamber NEVER Stopped Marketing Sedona
Sedona Chamber continues to Marketing Sedona, they never stopped! The Sedona Chamber Board and CEO played the Disinformation campaign of false intel intending to mislead the public, rival the City Council, and control public funding through the media waves. The Chambers’ own records show it was a play on words, planned and issued by the…
Sedona Chamber Structure, Membership
Sedona Chamber Structure, Membership, Revenue Sedona Chamber Structure, Membership, Revenue Reviewing the Sedona Chamber structure, Membership, and revenue gives us a better understanding of who, what, and where the Sedona Chamber is and who they are marketing. Sedona Chamber of Commerce, INC.Who, What, When and Where The Sedona Chamber reports to a Board of Directors…
What Model Fits a Municipality DMO?
Regardless of where you are, Municipality DMOs Destination Marketing Organizations are regulated, required to follow the laws, and under those laws are performing a governmental function. In Arizona, the Offical DMO is the city or town, a Municipality. The Municipality is the DMO, Destination Marketing Organization. The City or Town is the automatic administrator as…
Sedona good to know
Small towns have many stories, some are fallacies, facts, and rumors. Rumors have a way of changing the truth. Just because someone said it to you, doesn’t make it true. When it comes to money, money changes definitions, and opinions through propaganda machines. If you hear the same story over and over, especially from those that…
Defining Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO)
Destination marketing organizations are generally tied to the government and typically funded through tourism taxes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “DMOs are known as tourist boards, tourism authorities or “Convention and Visitors Bureaux”.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_marketing_organization Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) Government designation, the state, region, county, and municipality promoting the government’s location to tourists. The designation (municipality…
Defining DMO & DMC meanings
Destination marketing organizations are generally tied to the government and typically funded through tourism taxes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “DMOs are known as tourist boards, tourism authorities or “Convention and Visitors Bureaux”.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_marketing_organization What is a Destination Marketing Organization (DMO)? Government designation, the state, region, county, or municipality promoting it as government designation for…
Sedona Cultural Park Inc. Background
Sometimes things get lost in time and the story changes. After years of hearing many different stories, I deeply studied the historical data-driven documents on the Sedona Cultural Park. One level leads the path to another level of source documentation to tell the story. While I did have a collection of records I had collected…
Local Government Benchmarking
Benchmarking is used throughout many industries as method to improve the quality and efficiency. Methodology benchmarking information can then be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes including municipalities. Policy problems cannot be solved when we don’t identify the metrics, process of the policy that created the policy issues. Some Resources that provide Cities…
