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Here is How Your Town Can Start Local Tourism Information Radio!

It takes a few entrepreneurial tourism operators to take the lead in developing a tourism information service to drive incremental tourism car traffic into your shopping, sight-seeing, dining and lodging facilities and districts. Local private tourism operators, municipalities, social, cultural & heritage or even "not for profit" organizations can co-operate in a signage and FM radio tourism information service quite easily.

Even local media companies such as the local weekly newspapers, internet hosting companies, real estate, local photograhers, billboard and outdoor advertising firms and even regional commercial radio stations can participate in a co-operative tourism information short range radio service managed by Tourism Radio 1800FM.com

Here is a step by step process which explains our systems.

1. Tourism Radio 1800FM.com and Decade can engineer the entire system requirements for a local radio transmitter system which is license free to operate in both Canada and USA. Our broadcast engineering experts research the available FM radio frequencies in your town which can be utilized for license free operation by private operators.

Tourism Radio 1800FM.com has a staff of professional voice talent radio DJ announcers who write the radio scripts and record professional sounding announcements to advise tourist car traffic of your local attractions and ammenities. Please view the You Tube below for a detailed overview of the process and system...

2. We are developing tourism information radio systems for USA-Canada border crossings and other heavy car traffic highway locations to drive incremental tourism car traffic into your tourism area. Please view the You Tube below...



3. Signage is the key to success. Signs are erected and maintained by YOU (the local tourism operators) and permitted in locations allowed by local municipality by-laws to advise tourist car traffic about our FM radio frequency to tune into for local tourism information and directions. These signs can be as simple as shop and store window signs, real estate size lawn signs or full billboards to attract highway car attention.
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4. Our localized radio scripts are researched and written by our professional copy writers and radio announcers to "show case" the best of your local community so tourists are intrigued to visit and sight-see in your town even if they are just passing through not expecting to stop. Day-trips are important for the new tourism economy and remember tourists are returning through the same border crossing they arrived at so your town has a second chance to capture their attention to visit your attractions.

Both large and small operators are highlighted in our radio annoucements so even small mom & pop tourism operators such as gift shops, restaurants, bed and breakfasts, motels and hotels all can benefit. By multiple stores and operations displaying your bright yellow signs in their shop windows, tourists are advised to tune in a radio frequency for more tourism information about your town and attractions. Please view the You Tube below for an example of a historical shopping district of Cookstown Ontario...



5. Local retailers and shops and other tourism operators can benefit by displaying your town's radio frequency signs in their store windows since they are a sign that the retailer supports local tourism radio. Your local tourism operators can reward friendly retailers with a secret shopper's program which awards the friendly retailers for their public service of posting simple yellow signs in their shop windows or on their property to advise tourists. See the You-Tube below about an example secret shopper announcement for tourists below...



6. License free legal FM radio transmitters are strategically positioned in the best location for clear car radio reception of our tourism information announcements.
Broadcast authorities in both the USA (FCC) and in Canada (Industry Canada) are aware of Decade quality engineered transmitters which carry the appropriate documentation and certificates for license free legal operation.

Decade FM radio transmitters are quality transmitters which stay within the regulations for power output and they stay on their desired frequencies not interfering with other operations using important radio frequencies such as ambulance, police or aviation radio frequencies. See the You Tube below which details Decade's license free transmitters for operation in both Canada and the USA...



7. Tourism Radio 1800FM.com is designed to get the attention of tourist car traffic. Our brand name 1 800 FM was developed so tourists are encouraged to telephone for more tourism information from their cell phone when they are out of our short range radio broadcast range but still in the local vicinity of your town.

Our toll free number 1-800-893-7787 is 1-800-893-RSVP which can direct and advise tourists for more informaton. Often tourists passing through your town are not aware of the local telephone area code and may be cautious of expensive cellular roaming charges from their telephone cellular provider.

A toll free number easy to remember reassures the tourist the telephone call is free and they will telephone for more informaton. These telephone calls can be directed into an automated telephone IVR system which asks the tourist to press #1 for hotels, #2 for restaurants and #3 for attractions for example for more detailed informatin all by telephone audio announcements...

8. Tourists can enter contests by providing their cellular or home telephone number for permission based future marketing communications. Tourism Radio builds a marketing database for future solicitation of tourists to return to your tourism area in the future. Prizes such as a free round of golf, a restaurant meal or a gift certificate for a local gift shop or mall are provided by the local merchants which of course receive "on-the-air" acknowledgement of the donated prizes including an invitation for tourists to visit their facility.

The chart below illustrates how different tourist facilities use FM radio transmitters. Co-operation among several local tourism operations is key to build the local tourism economy...

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9. Your town can have its own short range tourism information system. Even tourism operators on the out skirts of town or in remote rural areas can broadcast tourism information. They can network with other local tourism operators each broadcasting each other's announcements promoting each other's complementary businesses. Your town can have its own short range radio station. Please view the You Tube below...

10. Audio announcements can convince transient tourist car traffic to visit your community which they may have otherwise neglected to do so. Busy and time rushed tourists from America or other parts of Canada are not aware of your town's heritage and tourism assets and facilities and speed along highways and through border crossings racing to other places. Now you can co-operate with other local tourism stake holders in a network of FM radio transmitters each promoting your local tourism economy.

By placing your professionally recorded radio announcements on You Tube and placing them on our centralized web site www.1800FM.com tourists even when they are out of our local radio broadcast range can go online with their smart phones or other mobile devices or laptop, PC or notebook to view and listen to your town's and tourism operation's announcements. A You Tube can add quality professional looking photography with animation to provide the tourist an audio and visual presentation of the best your town has to offer.

Let DECADE and Tourism Radio 1800FM.com engineer a powerful tourism promotion radio network for you.

Together we can build your local tourism economy and economic development.
Our FM radio transmitters sell for as low as $550 on our web site and we will record a 30 second audio announcement for as low as $99. In our tourism network we operate our proprietary radio network with a series of transmitters in co-operation with local tourism operators.

Please telephone us to discuss a local tourism information radio system for your tourism area today. It's easy and your tourism traffic to your attractions will increase dramatically....

Contact:

Douglas Edwards

Tourism Radio 1800FM.com

Toll free  1-800-893-7787

Toronto      416-900-6271

Info@B2Bdatabaseteam.com   or Douglas@Decade.ca

www.B2BdatabaseTeam.com    www.1800FM.com