Recently, the Daily Press ran a campaign highlighting Hampton Roads’ excellent assets such as higher education, history, healthcare and our many port facilities to promote regional confidence.
Regional leaders featured include Dr. Bill Harvey, President of Hampton University; Colin Campbell, President of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Rick Pearce, President and CEO of Riverside Health Systems; and Dana Dickens, President and CEO of the Hampton Roads Partnership.
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J. Tyler Ballance says:
October 28, 2009 at 11:33 am (UTC -4 )
We could add a BILLION dollars to Virginia’s tourism revenue if our leadership would promote Confederate era tourism. From organized re-enactments to tours of former battle sites, an organized approach to marketing our natural association with the Confederate era would dramatically increase tourism and local jobs.
The folks in Plymouth do not shun their Pilgrim era tourism because the Pilgrims exploited the Indians. It is ludicrous for Virginia’s leadership to ignore a sure money maker in the form of Confederate era tourism.
I do NOT advocate reducing our Confederate history to a token, “Confederate History Month.” Instead, Virginia should stage a series of annual events that travel agencies could depend upon, for which they could build tour packages around.