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The tourism-promoting agency Travel Michigan has ponied up $20,000 in prize money for participants in the LPGA ladies golf Epson Tour events. Three events are being held as part of the Michigan Cup, which is three events around the state that includes Island Resort Championship this weekend at the Sweetgrass Golf Course.
Travel Michigan Vice President Kelly Walgamott says it’s just one of their many efforts to bring tourists here to the Upper Peninsula. The agency operates as a part of the Michigan Economic Develepment Corporation, and is funded by both state taxpayer dollars as well as c0ntributions from local governments across the state.
Walgamott tells RRN News that they are trying hard to get people from Chicago to come up here for summer vacations, doing billboard advertising in the Windy City and even wrapping the famous “El Train” subway trains with advertising messages.
Walgamott was in the Upper Peninsula last week, along with the Michigan Travel Commission members, for meetings in Houghton. And she plans to come back here this Saturday, to take in some of the Epson Tour action at the Sweetgrass Golf Course.
Overall, Walgamott says that the summer tourism season is off to a good start across Michigan, and she says the advretising campaign will continue on several different platforms in major Midwest cities to try to entice even more people to “take advantage of a Pure Michigan summer”.
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