- Address:
- PO Box 2391
Charleston, WV 25328
- Phone:
- (304) 342-6511
- Website:
- http://www.wvhta.com/
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- Company Information:
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The West Virginia Hospitality & Travel Association (WVH&TA) is the official voice of the food service, lodging, convention and visitors bureaus, and travel industries in the state. The Association represents the hospitality and travel industry's interests to both governmental and private sectors. WVH&TA serves as the connection between all those involved with the development of tourism in West Virginia.
The Association is continually finding ways to improve the amount of tourism dollars coming to - and being spent in -West Virginia. Members of WVH&TA share marketing ideas with their peers. The Associations members also work together to monitor local, state and national legislation and act accordingly. It makes a difference when everyone works as a team.
The West Virginia Hospitality & Travel Association is the legislative voice of the hospitality industry. Our professional government relations staff, working with daily input from our members and legislators, has successfully increased the state marketing budget for tourism by more than 680 percent. In 1989, the state marketing budget was $850,000. Today it totals $6.9 million. It has increased through the appropriation of lottery funds and video lottery funds. The video lottery funds have been used to provide dollars for the Cooperative Tourism Promotion Fund, which allows areas in the state to receive 50/50 matching grants to enhance their advertising purchasing power. The West Virginia Tourism Commission, which w
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