Nebraska tourism office promotes crane migration
Posted January 15, 2019 9:09 am.
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LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Tourism Office is starting its first campaign of 2019 by promoting the hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes that migrate to the Platte River Valley.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the print and television ads began running Monday. The ads will run until March in cities in Colorado, South Dakota and Kansas.
Tourism Commission Executive Director John Ricks says the migration draws tourists from around the world. Tourism office staff and animal experts will travel to Denver this week to promote the cranes.
Ricks says the state first promoted the event to out-of-state markets last year. He says traffic to the tourism website increased, as did lodging tax that was collected.
The ads are part of the state’s new tourism campaign.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com
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