How is your area/city promoted --for visitors, a place to live, etc.

[NbyNW]

No one wants to live in my city. You come here to work - there isn't any tourism. West Texas isn't really very... scenic - although the sunsets/rises and night sky are superb (the climate too). Pretty much if you're not a roughneck, a landowner or an engineer working for an oil company, you're here to support the town the oil folks live in so they can work in the fields. It's not really a bad place to live, especially for a homebody like me. And the roads are flat and we have a great LBS!

Sounds a lot like Edmonton, only warmer.

[Kathi]

This discussion is very interesting. I looked up the tourist websites for Cincinnati, Denver and Lakewood. I looked at them from the viewpoint of a tourist looking for things to do in the area that didn't require a car.

The attractions for tourists in Denver and Lakewood consisted of things to do in their downtown areas. Many were within walking distance. B Bikes are also available in downtown Denver. The websites are easy to navigate and promoted attractions within the cities. Denver's website also promoted attractions outside the city including Denver Parks (Red Rocks and the Buffalo Bill museum). The site promoted other state attractions, ie the Mt's and ski areas. Denver's site also talked of it's history and neighborhoods. Lakewood promoted it's parks and golf courses as well as hiking and biking. Both the Lakewood and Denver website were attractive with promotions of upcoming and past events.

Cincinnati's website was more oriented to locals and business. Most of the home page dealt with community concerns such as taxes and garbage. Compared to the Denver and Lakewood site it took me some time to figure out what I'd do if I didn't have a car. There was no promotion of the City of Cincinnati itself, rather, all the activities of the Tri State region. While there seemed to be lots of things to do I had to sort through the non downtown Cincinnati activities to find what I wanted. In the moving to "Cincinnati section" all suburbs were included even though they weren't part of Cincinnati proper and some were not in the county.

While I didn't spend time on every link major events like Taste of Cincinnati, Oktoberfest and River fest weren't even mentioned. I did find promotions of the Reds, Bengals, the Cincinnati Zoo, the Cincinnati Ballet, Nascar races andthe Aquarium in N.Ky. Cincinnati is so much more than this but to an outsider it's not obvious.

I also learned that Denver was rated as the 4Th highest walking city in the country and that Lakewood received the "All American City" award by the National Civic League.

If I had to chose which 3 cities to visit based on the websites, I definitely would chose Denver over Cincinnati, Lakewood second then Cincinnati.

[SadieKate]

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