The Slow Death of Sedona started way before 2013, unbeknownst to Sedona Residents.
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Destination Marketing Perspective
City Doing the Right Thing with Destination Marketing by Donna Joy 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…
Sedona City Bed Tax No requirement to market
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 lied, continued to marketing Sedona, they never stopped they changed the words. City Council agreed they didn’t want to hear from residents. 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…
DMO the right Model for City or Municipality
Municipality DMOs are regulated, required to follow the laws. Taxes driven, a governmental function. AZ State Laws outline foundation and structure
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…
ICLEI Is the City of Sedona a member of ICLEI?
The City of Sedona is a ICLEI member
is an international non-governmental organization democratic organization committed to sustainable urban development.
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 that I had…







