Visit St. Pete-Clearwater's creative tourism push

All right, so it's no secret that the Tampa Bay region has been ranked as a major destination spot. That's been the case for decades. Well, Visit St. Pete Clearwater has gotten pretty creative lately with ways to bring more tourism to the area. They found some pretty fun ways of getting the word out all across the country. Fox 13's Kylie Jones joining us now with some of the latest pushes. And Kylie, I got to say, I didn't know that we needed more tourists here, but I know a lot of people say stop coming here. But I mean, but whatever they're doing, it's working. Yeah, it definitely is. And Visit St. Pete Clearwater, Visit Tampa Bay, They are known for being creative. There's Visit Florida as you guys can imagine it's the same concept but it's statewide and so they have been part of a bigger statewide promotion. Visit Florida reached out to Visit St. Pete Clearwater and Visit Tampa Bay and earlier this week Visit St. Pete Clearwater was featured on the Wheel of Fortune. Now this put our area in front of a national audience as you can imagine. The prize a seven night stay in Clearwater Beach. It includes a sunset cruise, several other fun experiences from some of the best places in the state. Local businesses and the goal of that is to introduce people to some of the area's local favorites from restaurants to beach excursions to the arts. Now visit St. Pete Clearwater has also taken to social media with its SPC sweep campaign with content creators highlighting the area. Visitation this year has been absolutely wonderful, even last month you go back to the World Series here where we had almost double the hotel occupancy and revenue for that time of year and it leads into this November and our seasons start to pick up where our visitation really becomes a little bit more prevalent as we get into these winter months and then run into spring. And another appearance for the area is on deck Live with Kelly and Mark is coming to Clearwater Beach next week. They will be filming some episodes here Monday and Tuesday, and you'll see them right here on Fox 13. So, guys, so much fun stuff. That's going to be fun. And Charlie's doing something with them, I think, tomorrow. Yes, I think so as well. That's awesome. Yeah, I would love to meet them as well. So that would be great. And Mark is from the area, right? Yes, he is a proud Tampa Bay local. He always says that. Yeah, he went to USF, too, and they come back here more often than most people might think. Yeah, yeah. It's the place to be. Very cool. Neat stuff. Kylie, thanks.