Scottsdale, the Arizona desert tourism oasis of 230K residents, wants an agency to develop a five-year tourism plan to assess changes in the travel landscape since its last study in 2005.
Photo: Scottsdale CBV |
The Scottsdale Tourism Development Commission and the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau released an RFP this week calling for proposals through March 15 to report on the tourism market, analyze Scottsdale’s existing travel development and allocation of resources derived from its hotel bed tax, among other analysis, by the end of the year.
The city, known for its nightlife and golf, took in $9M from the hotel tax in 2010, via more than 70 hotels and resorts, and counted more than 7.5M visitors in 2009 with an average visitor age is 56 years old, much older than the average resident age of 40 years old.
It uses the slogan “The West’s Most Western Town.”
Download the RFP at Scottsdale’s procurement website: http://bit.ly/wFgqzJ.