October 20, 2017 Contact: Aurora Wheeler, Oral History Coordinator HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE 518-891-4606 aurora@historicsaranaclake.org Saranac Lake, NY - Historic Saranac Lake has been awarded major grants to support the implementation of the Cure Porch on Wheels project in 2018. The New York Council on the Arts (NYSCA) has approved a...
October 18, 2017: By the Numbers The chart below shows the percent of each outdoor activity in the ROOST leisure travel study respondents reported participating in since 2011. The rise in hiking and paddling correlate with an increase in ROOST’s efforts to market these activities. By understanding the...
Lake Placid, Adirondacks USA – Over a thousand New York State employees are expected to attend a conference at the Conference Center at Lake Placid starting this Sunday, October 22 - October 25. The event is generating overnight bookings in Lake Placid for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. As in past...
ROOST Malone Regional Marketing Manager Tim Lamay visited on October 10 with 8th graders at the Malone Central School to discuss ways in which they can promote Malone as a tourist destination. The students have been assigned a project where they become "regional marketing managers"...
Opportunity for Whiteface Ski Show Participation Area lodging properties can send their ski and stay package information/brochures on the road to ski shows this fall. ORDA staff will bring your collateral to all ski shows and display at the show. In exchange they are asking for...
The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) invites all interested area municipal leaders, businesses, organizations, and individuals to attend brief regional destination marketing reviews, followed by reception, in their respective regional destination. The first in the series is the Saranac Lake destination marketing review being held...
October, 2017 Year to date, ROOST's websites have garnered 2,898,757 sessions, or website visits. This includes our eight destination websites and the umbrella site, adirondacks, usa. It represents an increase of 8.5% over the numbers of sessions we had last year at this time. The sources listed here are any of the referring sources...
October 5, 2017 Lake Placid, adirondacks, usa — A delegation of 36 individuals from the World Union of Olympic Cities (WUOC) was in Lake Placid this week to visit the 1980 Olympic venues and learn more about the Games’ legacy and lasting impact on the destination. The WUOC...
The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) will be holding marketing review meetings in the upcoming months in each of its eight regional destinations. The purpose of these gatherings is to acquaint, or reacquaint community members with their respective regional marketing manager and to give an update on...