Union Gap’s award-winning #SmallTownTourismChat (#STTC) on Twitter just celebrated its 4-yr anniversary.
The as soon as-a-month chat facilities on 6 inquiries per thirty day period, focusing on highlights close to Union Hole and the Yakima Valley, and features a distinct co-host each and every time.
The questions differ. They can be seasonal, these types of as what is occurring in Union Hole about the vacations, or in the circumstance of December, the chat will emphasis on the arts and engage with theater enthusiasts. It will talk about impending shows and musicals, and how tickets can be wonderful holiday break offers. The co-host is Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham.
About the chat’s 4 decades, the co-hosts and contributors have assisted endorse Union Gap and positioned it as a countrywide chief in all factors tiny-city. Union Hole Tourism has even had the possibility to meet up with many of these contributors in human being, and this earlier Oct we hosted Lisa Sokolowski from North Carolina, creator of the well known lifestyle web site www.drugstoredivas.internet.
Sokolowski built the trip to encounter #HauntedOctober and additional in Union Hole. She first discovered about Union Gap in 2019 when she commenced collaborating in the #SmallTownTourismChat, and she turned a co-host for the very first time that June and is now a a few-time co-host.
“I found out about Union Gap since of the #SmallTownTourismChat. It’s these kinds of a interesting way to discover about sites you would not have recognised about in any other case. Mainly because of the chat, I genuinely wanted to try out the tamales at Los Hernandez Tamales,” Sokolowski explained.
“I acquired to see and knowledge so several destinations in Union Gap that I learned about from the chat — as well as host the chat dwell from For Heaven’s Cake. I have satisfied other tourism bureaus due to the fact of the chat, frequented those tiny towns, attended their occasions, and launched them to my visitors. The chat is a good way to expertise smaller cities, even just nearly.”
You can go through about Union Gap on her web site www.drugstoredivas.web.
The #STTC team also just had their initial tweetup, an in-person meetup of Twitter buyers, with Jason Reid of www.jasonlikestotravel.com. Jason is a regular contributor to the #STTC and life in Peterborough, England. He was a co-host in spring 2020.
Reid frequented Washington at Thanksgiving and Union Hole Tourism was able to meet up with up with him and very well-acknowledged social media influencer, foodie and journey writer Stephanie Forrer.
#STTC has developed a group of people today, cities and areas from all around the earth that are serving to establish recognition of Union Hole.
The subsequent #SmallTownTourismChat is at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14. Merely glance for the hashtag or research @UnionGapWa on Twitter to get included.
The 2023 #STTC calendar is staying created, and co-hosts so far include things like a Yakima Valley vineyard (AntoLin Cellars) three communities (Marysville Cheyenne, Wyo. and the Outdated 96 District from South Carolina) TBEX — the foremost house of journey creators — and four preferred travel writers and bloggers.
Eric Patrick is director of tourism for Union Gap. Electronic mail him at [email protected].
