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Destination Marketing of Otsego County

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Destination Marketing: Promote Outdoors

Destination Marketing: Promote Great Outdoors By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – DMCOC is looking at the doughnut, not the hole. And the doughnut, for now, is the great outdoors, says Cassandra Harrington, executive director of the Destination Marketing Corp. of Otsego County. In an interview Friday, May 15, Harrington said DMCOC, which contracts with Otsego County to put “heads in beds” to generate occupancy tax, had met with her board of directors the day before and it…

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Build On DMCOC’s Smart Marketing

EDITORIAL Every Business Should Build On DMCOC’s Smart Marketing It’s been hard to approximate layoffs. Business owners don’t want to announce them, and the monthly figures seem so theoretical. Bassett Healthcare Network, people figure – and have heard anecdotally from time to time – has certainly furloughed and cut back hours after closing two floors and halting elective surgeries while coronavirus was considered a pending local emergency. But it doesn’t want to brag about it either. So the county Board…

Tourism Industry Donates $8,000+ In Sweat Equity

Tourism Industry Provides $10,000 In Sweat Equity By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Three dozen volunteers from Tourism Cares are painting the bleachers at Doubleday Field at this hour, part of a national effort that allows hundreds of tourism professionals to “give back” annually. The volunteers will be able to say, “I painted the outfield wall at Doubleday Field and swung a bat at home plate,” said Jay Smith of Sports Travel & Tours, Hatfield, Mass., the official travel…