DeKalb Tourism…What we do! By Kayla Worthey

I am sure a lot of you wonder…Who is DeKalb Tourism?, What do they do?, or maybe you have never heard of us before at all. Well, we are a small non-profit organization that was founded more than 50 years ago for the purpose of promoting tourism for DeKalb County. Our office is open to the general public seven days a week. On average we greet anywhere from 10 to 50 visitors a day in the “slow” season and anywhere from 50 to 150 a day in the “busy” season. Our small staff fields emails and phone calls from all over the country, answering questions about our area and fulfilling vacation guide requests.
DeKalb Tourism creates and prints numerous brochures and maps that are distributed throughout the southeast area. We create advertisements for printed publications, such as magazines, newspapers, state guides, etc. We have a website and a mobile website (coming soon!) with multiple domain names that is updated daily with the most current information. We maintain multiple social media sites that are updated daily or weekly. We create press releases regularly and distribute them to media contacts all over the southeast in hopes of generating an article.
We use all of the promotional materials to help lure visitors to this area. If you have a business that is tourism related and would like for us to help promote you, please come by and see us at the Visitor’s Center located at 1503 Glenn Boulevard SW. We are here to support you!
Did you know…
That our website had more than 172,000 unique visitors in 2011?
That our Visitor’s Center greeted over 10,000 people?
That we received over 1,700 phone calls requesting information?
That we received over 9,100 emails requesting more information about this area?
That of those calls and emails, almost 500 of them were interested in the World’s Longest Yard Sale?
That we mailed out almost 3,800 visitor guides to potential visitors?
For more information about us or to keep up with what is going on in the area, you can visit our website at www.DiscoverLookoutMountain.com, find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/LookoutMountainAlabama, and read our blog on LookoutMountainAlabama.blogspot.com