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Dear Applicant:

Enclosed is the Category "A" Cooperative Advertising and Promotion Guidelines and Application.  Please review the Guidelines thoroughly prior to submitting your application and backup material.

Our objective is to provide a means for the receipt of funds by organizations to be used to advertise/promote (outside of Palm Beach County) events/activities which will generate tourism and encourage overnight stay in Palm Beach County hotels/motels through the promotion of travel/hotel packages.

Please submit the following as backup with your completed application form:

1.   Complete marketing/media plan for use of cooperative advertising in the following categories:  (PLEASE INCLUDE INSERTION DATES AND COST PER INSERTION WHERE APPLICABLE.)

Television            Brochures/Response Pieces

Newspaper         Direct Mail

Magazine            Other

2.   Ad copy or artwork (where applicable) showing package pricing for overnight stay at participating hotels/ motels including an 800# for reservations.

3.   A Project Description and a Project Budget which shows revenue and expenditures.

Applications must be submitted 30 days prior to the scheduled meeting date and a minimum of 90 days prior to the event/project, to the attention of Warren McLaughlin, President, Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1555 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 204, W. Palm Beach, FL   33401.

Upon receipt, your application and backup material will be submitted to Discover's Advertising Committee which meets two days prior to Discover's Board of Directors meeting which is held on a quarterly basis (March, June, September, and December).  Their recommendations will be submitted to the Discover Board and the Tourist Development Council for review.  Final review and approval must come from the Board of County Commissioners.  This process takes approximately three (3) months. 

If you have any questions while completing your application, please feel free to call me or Mr. McLaughlin (561) 471-3995. 

Sincerely,                

 

Carmen G. Hamilton  
Executive Assistant   

  CGH

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