Visitors Bureau plans May bus tour
In May 2007, a Travel Industry Association survey asked people at what price per gallon of gas would they consider changing vacation and travel plans.
The answer was: $3.50.
It’s a year later, and we’re paying that — or more.
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| COURTESY LORAIN COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU |
| A May bus tour visiting Lorain County sites will start and end at the Visitors Bureau on state Route 58. |
The point is not lost on those whose job it is to boost local tourism, including Lynne Lisner, marketing and communications manager for the Lorain County Visitors Bureau, which is promoting a “Be a Tourist in Your Own Backyard” campaign.
The bureau is preparing to observe National Tourism Week with a daylong bus trip designed to show off some of the county’s newest attractions.
The May 14 tour will include Lorain’s new Premier Soccer Academy, lunch at Rose Cafe in Lakeview Park, Amherst Historical Society’s newly developed Sandstone Center and Amherst’s Jefferson 150 restaurant.
This is the first such tour since 2002.
“With a whole new staff, we felt it was time to bring some of these things (such as the tour) back as a means of promoting the area,” Lisner said.
Set to begin with an 8:30 a.m. breakfast at the visitors bureau, and end there at 5 p.m., the tour will make its first stop at the former Lorain Ford Plant, where a variety of businesses are leasing space inside the sprawling facility.
“We’ll learn about plans to renovate the property and grounds, and find out some fun facts,” said Lisner, including an on-site medical wing staffed by doctors and nurses to care for employees, and stories about security guards who believe the plant is haunted.
This marks the first public tour of the plant since its sale by Ford.
Other highlights include Amherst’s Sandstone Village, followed by coffee, tea and dessert at Jefferson 150.
The day also includes a look at the ambitious, $500 million upscale Quarries at Beaver Creek housing development at the site of an old Amherst quarry and a wine tasting at Single Tree Winery.
The tour costs $25 per person. Reservations are required by May 5. Call the Lorain County Visitors Bureau at (440) 984-5282 or e-mail visitors@lorcnty.com.
Contact Steve Fogarty at 329-7146 or sfogarty@chroniclet.com.
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Filed by April 25th, 2008 in Top Stories.
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