For obvious reasons, July is a particularly busy time for businesses serving the visitor community, but that didn’t stop the Chamber Tourism Council from gathering on July 16 to discuss the current season and the months ahead. One of the more interesting conversations went beyond summer and applied to aspects of Cape Ann that attract […]

The summer got off to a great start in June – with signs of the season coming well before spring had a chance to end – but the discussion at our most recent Tourism Council meeting on June 18, reached far beyond the current warm-weather months. There were extensive conversations about birding on Cape Ann […]

In each of our monthly Tourism Council meetings thus far this year, we have looked forward with optimism toward 2021, and in our March 19 meeting, we continued our discussion around opportunities and priorities for the year ahead. The Council discussed plans to organize a “spring social” that would enable members of the region’s tourism […]

Late November and December is a special time for everyone on Cape Ann, but this is particularly true to the region’s tourism community. These are typically the busiest weeks of off-season in terms of visitors, and it’s when many of our tourism businesses plan for the year ahead. Despite the challenges of 2020, that was […]

The weeks from late-October to late November are an important time for Cape Ann’s tourism community, as we bring to close the “bridge” period between the summer season and the holidays. And given the challenges of 2020, the review of our fall tourism experiences and our discussion of plans for the seasons ahead were particularly […]