PARTNERSHIP & COMMUNTY ENGAGMENT
Partners can gain additional exposure and attract new visitors through several new programs:
Autism Certification - Families with autism want to travel and make memories; they also represent a large, growing segment of the travel market, spending more than $262 billion on autism-related services each year in the U.S. Becoming a Certified Autism Center gives your business a competitive advantage with these visitors and helps develop the skills and awareness of your employees. Learn more on our partner landing page.
Kind Traveler - Kind Traveler is the first Give + Get hotel booking and education platform that empowers travelers to make a positive impact in the communities they visit. Travelers give back to meaningful charities connected to environmental and community impact in destinations and receive kind offers from partnered hotels. Hotels in Greater Palm Springs have the opportunity to participate on this platform through a special program with Visit Greater Palm Springs. Azure Sky Hotel, Kimpton Rowan Palm Springs, Miramonte Indian Wells Resort & Spa, and The Good House have already signed up. Visit KindTraveler.com and contact Jessica Blotter via email to learn more.
Diverse Business Listing Info – Your listings on VisitGreaterPalmSprings.com can now include information about diversity and accessibility. This information also helps us connect you with media and marketing opportunities for diverse owned businesses. Log in at MyGreaterPS.com and update your “Amenities: Business Details”
Ongoing Promotion Opportunities:
Chill Deals – Share your packages, special experiences, and deals. Log in at MyGreaterPS.com to upload your “special offers” and attract more visitors.
Events – Submit your events to our visitor events calendar.
For more information about your partnership and opportunities with visit greater palm springs contact Susan Esterling at susan@visitgreaterps.com or Danae Sheehan at danae@visitgreaterps.com.
Monthly Meet & Sees give partners an opportunity to experience new venues and network with our hospitality community. Thank you to Acrisure Arena for hosting our January Meet & See, and the Mary Pickford Theater and Palm Springs International Film Festival ShortFest for hosting February’s Meet & See.
Meet & See at Acrisure Arena
January 9
Meet & See with PSIFF ShortFest at Mary Pickford Theater
February 21
Partners can look forward to invites to more networking, education, and experience events thanks to the support of our Oasis and San Jacinto Partners:
We welcomed 10 new partners in January and February 2022:
- Strong Republic Personal Training Palm Springs
- Breezit
- Direct Source Distributing
- Alliance Nationwide Exposition
- Frisky Business Palm Springs Cat
- Drift Hotel
- Proper Solutions Staffing
- COJ Events
- Pure Local Services
- Havaianas Palm Desert
The generous support of our new and renewing partners helps us fulfill our mission of positively affecting the region’s tourism economy and quality of life.
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Partnership Opportunities
Partnership opportunities are updated at MyGreaterPS.com, including how to take advantage of free promotional opportunities, website advertising, co-op marketing, and Visit GPS Partnership.
Tourism partners can get involved with our current promotions and marketing campaigns and gain additional exposure by:
- Reviewing listings on visitgreaterpalmsprings.com and at dinegps.com to ensure they accurately reflect your current offerings and images
- Posting deals and special offers at MyGreaterPS.com
- Posting your events to our visitor calendar at MyGreaterPS.com
Free and subsidized marketing co-ops are available to tourism partners. View current co-op opportunities here.
WEBSITE ADVERTISING
Advertising opportunities are available on our website through our marketing partner DTN. In March and April of 2022, partners advertisements on visitgreaterpalmsprings.com had 2,180,197 impressions and 13,998 click-thrus to partner websites.Take advantage of the increased traffic from potential visitors. More Info is available here.
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Team GPS
A significant challenge for all businesses continues to be finding qualified employees. TEAM GPS offers education and networking opportunities aimed at growing our tourism workforce and cultivating destination ambassadors. TEAM GPS Champions are destination pros. They know about all of our region’s attractions, experiences, restaurants, events, and things to do and how to find the latest on what’s happening. They’re cheerleaders for our local businesses.
Through a combination of education, resources, and networking, TEAM GPS can help elevate those with careers in hospitality, connect them with others in the industry, and expand their knowledge and understanding of our destination.
Hospitality employees can enroll in TEAM GPS for FREE. Email Erica Abarca at erica@visitgreaterps.com for more information.
Submit Your Offers for the CHAMPIONS PASS – Turn our TEAM GPS Champions into champions for your business by offering a free experience or deal on the TEAM GPS Champions Pass. Email Erica Abarca at erica@visitgreaterps.com to participate.
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Workforce Development
The Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation has partnered with OneFuture Coachella Valley to increase the number of students from across the Coachella Valley entering into careers in hospitality. The strategy includes providing student scholarships, mentorship and networking opportunities, increasing work experience opportunities, establishing a regional undergraduate internship program in hospitality, and engaging regional hospitality executives to provide expertise, among other objectives.
College Scholarships are available through One Future’s application portal.
Hotels, restaurants and hospitality business interested in getting involved can contact Lauren Bruggemans at LaurenB@VisitGreaterPS.com
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Careers in Hospitality
To support our workforce development efforts we’re running ads on local digital, and social media platforms, as well as radio and billboard, connecting to our Careers in Hospitality Landing Page and Hospitality Education Landing Page with information about our local culinary and hospitality training and degree programs.
