SNOW HILL– A substantial increase in tourism funding from the state will allow Worcester County to increase its advertising efforts.
The Worcester County Commissioners last week agreed to sign off on a grant from the Maryland Tourism Development Board for $1,012,508. The funding will be used for advertising and marketing.
“Worcester County has never seen that amount of money to go toward advertising,” said Melanie Pursel, director of the Worcester County Office of Tourism and Economic Development.
Pursel told the commissioners the county receives a grant from the state for advertising and marketing each year. While the county received just $127,513 last fiscal year, in the coming year the county is set to receive $1,012,508—an $884,995 increase. Pursel said the grant amount varied each year, in part because of the grant pool and more recently because of the pandemic.
“It is also dependent on the levels of advertising expenditures in all the other counties in the state of Maryland,” she wrote in a memo to the commissioners. “In addition, Gov. Hogan infused an additional $8 million into tourism, specifically for advertising.”
Try not to piss it away.
How soon before the SS Leaky Barge starts its cruises from Snow Hill?