Missouri Association of

Convention & Visitor Bureaus

  

          

   

AAA - American Automobile Association
 

601 Dougherty Oaks Ct.
Manchester,  MO  63021

Phone: 636-256-9122   Fax: (636) 256-9011
 
Toll Free:
 (800) 669-9090 ext. 3108

Web site:  www.aaa.biz/approved

Primary Contact:   Terry.Patton /   - tpatton@national.aaa.com

Description / Key Attractions:  AAA, the largest travel publisher in North America; AAA Multimedia provides targeted AAA Tour Books, aaa.com, AAA mobile for cell phones, PDAs & GPS units, industry award-winning Triptik Travel Planner on-line maps plus new I-phone apps to serve over 51 million AAA members & millions of other travelers who trust AAA - the #1 source for upscale leisure & drive markets, AAA commanding 35% of the entire US travel market. AAA is also the industry's preeminent source for trusted, comprehensive and objective travel information. Trusted, targeted, trackable, technology & Terry - remember the 5 Ts. "Travel with Someone You Trust." www.aaa.com (Consumers) or www.aaa.biz/approved (Sales & Marketing) Look for our travel blogs at AAA Travel Views. Coming soon to a computer near you! 


AAA Magazines
 

10703 J. Street - Suite 100
Omaha,  NE  68127

Phone: 800-390-7466 x 1   Fax: (402) 331-5194
 
Toll Free:
 (800) 390-7466

Web site:  www.hamediagroup.com/ratecards.cfm

Primary Contact:   Bonnie.Gill / Sales - bgill@hamediagroup.com

Description / Key Attractions:  AAA magazines have 9 titles reaching over 5 million homes in the Midwest SIX times a year without duplication: AAA Living, Midwest and Southern Traveler, Home&Away, Journeys KS, Texas Journey, Alabama Journey, New Mexico Journey, and Westways CA. These magazines romance the reader while in their homes to plan their next trip. Readex research says over 76% are influenced by editorial and 65% are influenced by advertising. MRI research shows the books reach ONE in THREE of all Midwest adults who travel domestically. Homes of which 9 million are within a days drive or less of Missouri. They are mailed to the home 8 times a year without duplication. MRI research shows the books reach 1 in 3 of all Midwest adults who travel domestically. 


Collinson Publishing
Suite 250

15 Technology Pkwy.
Norcross,  GA  30092

Phone: 800-241-9461   Fax:  
 
Toll Free:
 800-241-9461

Web site:  www.collinsonpublishing.com

Primary Contact:   Jim.Hampton / Senior Sales Manager - jim@collinsonpublishing.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Collinson Publishing is one of the senior leaders in the United States providing successful marketing solutions for the tourism/travel and meetings/conventions industries for more than three decades. Collinson Publishing provides destination marketing organizations greater access to the leisure travel market and niche markets through many Internet solutions and publications such as Audubon Magazine, Group Travel Planet Magazine, Rejuvenate Magazine and America's Best Vacations newspaper inserts. 


Good Housekeeping
 

803 N. Scott St.
Wheaton,  IL  60187-4227

Phone: 630-665-5315   Fax: 630-665-3789
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.macvb.net/web/goodhousekeeping.htm

Primary Contact:   Bob.Purdy /   - bob@robertpurdy.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Good Housekeeping readers spent more than $14 billion on domestic travel last year, more than twice the national average per household. And 8 million Good Housekeeping women took a domestic trip by car last year, 81% above the U.S. average. Good Housekeepings travel sections provide a trusted environment for Missouri CVB advertising. Regional Travel sections run in the March, April, May, and October issues, and appear in all copies, both subscriber and newsstand. They are designed to inform and inspire readers while providing response opportunities in-book and also online at http://www.GHTravel.com. Missouri advertisers get national circulation (4,400,000) of their reader service listings with BRC response and all leads are delivered weekly via e-mail or labels. Listings include your website address and toll-free number and also appear online with a URL link. Addiitional information is available at http://www.macvb.net/pdf/goodhousekeeping.pdf.  


Hoffman Lewis
 

30 Maryland Plaza
St. Louis,  MO  63108

Phone: 314-454-3400   Fax: (314) 454-3487
 
Toll Free:
 n/a

Web site:  www.hoffmanlewis.com

Primary Contact:   Leah.Chandler /   - lchandler@hoffmanlewis.com

Description / Key Attractions:    


Joplin Sports Authority
Suite 201

2914 E 32nd Street
Joplin,  MO  64804

Phone: 417-625-1006   Fax: 417-625-1486
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.joplinsports.org

Primary Contact:   Craig.Hull / Director - craig@joplinsports.org

Description / Key Attractions:    


Kansas City Regional Destination Alliance
 

6304 East Frontage Road
Merriam,  KS  66202

Phone: 913-403-8999   Fax: 913-789-0961
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.kcdestinations.com

Primary Contact:   Karen.Crane / Education Committee Chair - karenc@exploremerriam.com

Description / Key Attractions:  The KCRDA is a membership organization of Destination Marketing Organizations from the Kansas City metropolitan area whose mission is to market, develop, and advocate the Kansas City region's attractions and hospitality services to leisure, event and convention visitors resulting in economic growth and enhanced quality of life to the betterment of each community. Our goal is to offer every visitor to the Kansas City region a quality visitor experience.  


KC Destinations
 

11180 Lackman Road
Lenexa,  KS  66219

Phone: 913-888-1414   Fax:  
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.kcdestinations.com

Primary Contact:   Julie.Steiner / Chairperson - jsteiner@lenexa.org

Description / Key Attractions:  The Kansas City Regional Destination Alliance is comprised of fifteen communities in the KC metro area in both Missouri and Kansas that work to promote the area in a unified manner. 


Madden Media
 

12620 Lamplighter Square - Suite 840
St. Louis,  MO  63128

Phone: 314-487-4778 (Ronda), or (816) 662-2900 (Kim)   Fax: (314) 487-2483 (Ronda)
 
Toll Free:
 314-226-3736 (Ronda cell)

Web site:  www.vacationfun.com

Primary Contact:   Ronda.Thiem / SR VP of Sales 314-487-4778 - rthiem@maddenmedia.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Madden's mission is to be the marketing partner that most successfully connects our travel industry advertisers with consumers who travel frequently and spend aggressively. Madden Media is the Missouri Division of Tourism's Missouri Vacation Publisher, The Kansas City CVA's VisitKC Publisher and the St. Louis CVC's Explore St. Louis Publisher. In addition to offering traditional visitor guides, we publish newspaper insert intergrated marketing campaigns across the nation including the Missouri Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter inserts, KC Fall-Winter-Spring campaigns, Oprah Magazine, Parade Magazine and multiple eMedia online marketing campaigns. We are ranked in the top ten travel websites as vacationfun.com by Hitwise. 


Meredith Travel Marketing
 

116 South Michigan Avenue, 14th Floor
Chicago,  IL  60603

Phone: 312-621-1956   Fax: 312-621-1960
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.meredith.com

Primary Contact:   Dick.Opfer /   - ropfer@wkao.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Meredith Travel Marketing offers you more ways than ever to connect with active travelers who are your best prospects for Missouri vacations. Whether through our action-inspiring magazines--Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, Midwest Living, More, Parents, Traditional Home, and Fitness--our variety of innovative online solutions, broadcast, events or our database of 85 million consumers, Meredith is your direct route to reach women who are the decision-makers for their family getaways. Visit out Web site link above for MACVB member ad rates. 


Missouri Meetings & Events
 

6590 Scanlan Avenue
St. Louis,  MO  63139

Phone: 314-781-8880 x101   Fax: (314) 781-8848
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.MissouriMeetingsAndEvents.Com

Primary Contact:   Joseph.Clote / Publisher - jclote@pc40.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Missouri Meetings & Events Magazine and Expo are designed to provide corporate, government, health, religious, association and independent meeting and event planners with a regional resource to help them plan more productive, interesting and creative meetings and events in Missouri. It also keeps them up to date on regional and national industry information. 


Missouri Travel Council
 

204 E. High
Jefferson City,  MO  65101

Phone: 573-636-2814   Fax: (573) 636-5783
 
Toll Free:
 n/a

Web site:  missouritravel.com

Primary Contact:   Pat.Amick, CMP / Executive Director - pat-amick@socket.net

Description / Key Attractions:  The Missouri Travel Council is the official private sector umbrella organization of the tourism industry in the State of Missouri. As a not-for-profit association, its primary aim is to provide economic, social & educational benefits to its broadly based membership thru professional development, public advocacy & cooperative state/regional marketing efforts. 


MIZZOU magazine
 

407 Reynolds Alumni Center
Columbia,  MO  65211

Phone: 573-882-7358   Fax: 573-882-7290
 
Toll Free:
 n/a

Web site:  MizzouMagazine.com

Primary Contact:   Scott.Reeter / Advertising Director - reeters@missouri.edu

Description / Key Attractions:  Award-winning MIZZOU magazine is the University of Missouri alumni magazine distributed quarterly to 180,000 households nationwide. Contact Scott Reeter to discuss advertising opportunities. 


MMG Worldwide
 

4601 Madison Avenue
Kansas City,  MO  64112

Phone: 816-472-5988   Fax:  
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.mmgworldwide.com

Primary Contact:   Ted.Sullivan / VP Destination Marketing - tsullivan@mmgworldwide.com

Description / Key Attractions:    


SportsTravel Magazine
 

11835 West Olympic Blvd., 12th Floor
Los Angeles,  CA  90064

Phone: 310-577-3700   Fax: 310-577-3715
 
Toll Free:
 877-577-3700

Web site:  www.SchneiderPublishing.com

Primary Contact:   Lisa.Furfine / Associate Publisher - lisa.furfine@schneiderpublishing.com

Description / Key Attractions:  SportsTravel Magazine is the event organizer's guide to creating & staging sports events. SportsTravel provides news on sports destinations & venues, transportation & accommodations, sponsorships, bidding for sports events & sports event marketing. SportsTravel facilitates relationships among sports governing bodies, event hosts, sponsors & suppliers, & organizes the world's leading conference & expo for the sports-event industry - TEAMS: Travel Events And Management in Sports. 


St. Louis Sports Commission
Suite 500

308 N. 21st Street
St. Louis,  MO  63103

Phone: 314-345-5120   Fax: 314-621-1391
 
Toll Free:
  

Web site:  www.stlsports.org

Primary Contact:   Marc.Schreiber / Vice President of Marketing & Development - mschreiber@stlsports.org

Description / Key Attractions:  The St. Louis Sports Commission is the independent, privately funded nonprofit organization that makes St. Louis a better place to live, visit, work and play through sports. Its efforts focus on attracting, creating and managing major sporting events for the St. Louis region and contributing to its quality of life. Since its inception in 1989, the Sports Commission has fulfilled its mission by producing high-profile events that excite local sports fans, generate revenue for the region and the State of Missouri, garner positive exposure for the area, and showcase St. Louis at its best. The organization helps make St. Louis a stronger and more vibrant community. It supplements the excitement generated by the areas professional and collegiate teams to make Americas best sports city even better.  


Tri-County Lodging Association
5815 Highway 54

PO Box 1299
Osage Beach,  MO  65065

Phone: 573-348-0111   Fax: (573) 348-4292
 
Toll Free:
 n/a

Web site:  www.funlake.com

Primary Contact:   Jim.Divincen / Administrator - jim@funlake.com

Description / Key Attractions:  Tri-County Lodging Association - A promotional & advertising entity for the Lake of the Ozarks Destination, serving 220 members in Camden, Miller and Morgan Counties.