What "destinations" market to your region?

[Centropolis]

For St Louis, both Michigan and Wyoming seem to be really pushing hard in St Louis, with customized billboard messages, etc. Illinois (really Chicago), Indianapolis, and KC fall somewhere next.

[Steely Dan]

we are perennially BOMBARDED by michigan and wisconsin tourism advertising here in chicago.

it makes sense given the two states' proximity to chicago and the fact that they offer better natural areas than most of rural illinois.

[Strange Meat]

Wyoming and San Deigo are all I ever see here.

[the urban politician]

California, Michigan, and Illinois.

I never understood why sunny California has to run so many ad campaigns.

[vid]

Minnesota and Manitoba mostly. There is also a decent amount of ads from Newfoundland and Labrador, California, and the territories.

[Hayward]

I've seen tons of Montana ads. There's billboards, bus ads, signage in subway stations and on tour buses. Pure Michigan ads used to dominate, but they aren't as omnipresent as they used to be.

Only Wisconsin ads I've seen are on TV, though Summerfest in Milwaukee does heavily advertise in Chicago on buses and trains.

[bnk]

Michigan, Wisconsin, once in a while California.

Many years ago Indiana and Florida


"There's more than corn in Indiana, at Indiana Beach."



Here is a link to poster art of travel and tourism ads broken down by decade for pretty much everywhere in the USA.

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/travel-ads-1970s

[Centropolis]

Texas used to push that whole 'nother country campaign pretty heavily here and occasionally I'll see Colorado advertising. Never really saw any ads from the northern Midwest until the past few years, especially when Michigan started it's blitzkrieg, which to be perfectly honest, kind of worked on me. Now Michigan dominates here, not a peep from Wisconsin, though. Now that I think about it the Illinois mile after magnificent mile is probably second...they advertise heavily on the tee whereas Michigan has tons of billboards. I think Michigan figured out that we are close enough (as close as just under 6 hours to the beach) + downright brutally scorching enough in the summer to advertise here.

There's a trickle of Oklahoma (why?), Arkansas (why?), and Memphis (understandable). The state based ads are generally more recreation type...I don't need to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to find nice floating rivers and crappy mega-inpoundments, we have both here. I don't know why Illinois bothers with the facade of boosting the entire state either, they should cut the shit and just advertise Chicago, which the commercials pretty much do. Southern Illinois is just a much less wild continuation of the Ozarks and there's no floating rivers.

[ColDayMan]

Michigan, California, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia (probably in that order) in my area. Now folks in Cleveland may get an entire new list. When I lived in Columbus, I'd get Washington DC, Philadelphia, West Virginia ("Wild & Wonderful!"), and Myrtle Beach commercials.

[Buckeye Native 001]

California beaches, because most of Arizona is insanely fucking hot in the summertime and its, at worst, only 80 degrees at the beaches.

But I remember some really bad Indianapolis commercials that would air during summers in Cincinnati. Indianapolis itself is cool (my family went there a lot for day trips), but the commercials they showed to get people to come visit Indy in the early 1990s were awful.

[rockyi]

Seems we get a lot of Wisconsin, Missouri, South Dakota ads, probably more but I'm groggy from taking a melatonin.

[ColDayMan]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

California beaches, because most of Arizona is insanely fucking hot in the summertime and its, at worst, only 80 degrees at the beaches.

But I remember some really bad Indianapolis commercials that would air during summers in Cincinnati. Indianapolis itself is cool (my family went there a lot for day trips), but the commercials they showed to get people to come visit Indy in the early 1990s were awful.

Yeah, Indy stopped marketing itself to this region probably by 2000. I remember those horrid commercials as well.

[LMich]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

I think Michigan figured out that we are close enough (as close as just under 6 hours to the beach) + downright brutally scorching enough in the summer to advertise here.

Well, to be honest, it wasn't so much that they targeted Missouri or any one state for that matter, as it is that they went national with the promotion (all 50 states) in 2009.

Anyway, here in Michigan, I've seen only one other state promotion, here, and it is Ohio. First year I've seen a promotion from them.

[ColDayMan]

Wait, we advertise?!?!

[novaCJ]

Michigan, West Virginia, California, Maryland.

[Hayward]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Wait, we advertise?!?!

They do. I was actually at a bar when I saw it. Images were flashing across the screen but I couldn't hear it since the bar muted the commercials.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I'm curious/concerned about the existence of an Ohio commercial.

Flagstaff advertises to Phoenix, but its not really that hard to advertise in a place that's 30 degrees warmer than you in the Summer.

As I like to say: "Flagstaff hates Phoenix, but we love their money."

[LMich]

l'll try to find it; it's really corny. It's like a Cedar Point commercial, but for the whole state. All I can remember off hand are random images of an African American family mugging it up for the camera, a red barn, and a natural shot. With all of the cities the state has, you'd think the commercial would be more sophisticated, but it could double as a tourism ad for Indiana.

[ColDayMan]

Well, seeing how the state actually hates its cities, that makes sense.

[Buckeye Native 001]