Promoting Tourism to Westport Area

About 50 persons from the Westport area today attended a Town Hall event to promote tourism in the area. It was sponsored by the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce and featured a Connecticut Office of Tourism officicial to explain the COT’s revised website intended to attract greater tourism to the state. First Selectman Jim Marpe welcomed the guests and showed off the plaque when Westport won the 2014 Fan Favorite award for its tourism documentary. With him were Matthew Mandell, the Chamber executive director, and Westporter Felicia Lindau, marketing consultant for Connecticut Tourism, whose daughter Sutton was one of three sixth grade girls who created the award-winning Fan Favorite documentary. (See WestportNow Sept. 2, 2014) She outlined how the new website was designed and how businesses can participate and take advantage of it. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com