Topic: Tourism
It's been a crazy sports week in Philadelphia, but the craziest development was probably last week's unexpected signing of Cliff Lee by the Phillies. As news of Lee's decision broke,…
Here's your suggestive regional tourism work of the week: a hip-hop video for the town of Leavenworth, Wash., featuring beer-wench cheerleaders and a dirty-minded nutcracker mascot called Woody Goomsba, who…
Utah thought it wanted Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess to create its advertising for the Utah State Fair—until it saw the finished product. Two TV spots showing actor Markus T.…
You know there's an issue with your town when you have to kidnap people just to get them to visit. Apparently unable to find a legal way to lure…
Earlier this year, the federal government created a program to help promote international tourism to the United States. And while I'm sure the result will be a forgettable series of…
Something bad happened in Russia. No, I mean worse than usual. A group of Russian businessmen terrified vacationers by parachuting a donkey over a beach along the Sea of…
Add Florida's "Our coast is clear" tourism ads to the list of things BP's oil spill has killed. BP paid Florida some $25 million to run a campaign reassuring…
Australia tourism can't catch a break. First, they had the "Where the bloody hell are you" debacle. Then this year's campaign, themed "There's nothing like Australia," got ambushed by…
Agencies always complain about dictatorial clients. The poor shop in charge of promoting vacations to North Korea probably has more to whine about than most. We're guessing the DPRK…
Australia was hoping its new "There's nothing like Australia" tourism campaign would have better luck than the much-hated "So where the bloody hell are you?" effort from a few…
