Business leaders and chamber of commerce officials from across West Tennessee met on Tuesday at the 2019 Northwest Tennessee Summit at the Discovery Park of America.
To quote Scott Williams, the President and CEO of Discovery Park of America, “People here today will be discussing everything like how rural communities use tourism to increase their economy. We also have some ideas on how to use digital tools.”
“We’ve really been focusing on trying to promote tourism collectively as a community rather than each asset in the community promoting themselves,” said Lindsay Frilling, the CEO of the Obion County Joint Economic Council.
The tourism summit attendees learned about several things, such as agriculture tourism, how to attract customers and how to use local assets to rebuild their economy.
The University of Tennessee Martin agriculture economics department also gave a presentation on how agriculture-related tourism can help communities.
