Travel Oregon is heartbroken to see the devastation our neighbors in California are suffering from the wildfires in Los Angeles. We’re grateful for the Oregon fire crews headed to help battle the blaze and for the efforts of all the brave California firefighters and first responders risking their own lives to save others. Our thoughts are with the residents and visitors of California as well as our tourism industry partners throughout the state. For visitor information and updates, please visit: Los Angeles Updates | Discover Los Angeles.
2024-2025 Competitive Grants program informational webinars
Travel Oregon staff hosted a series of informational webinars about the 2024-2025 Competitive Grant program followed by a discussion with Michelle Woodard, Director of Stewardship Investments, about ways to broaden access and inclusion to create more welcoming destinations for all. If you were unable to attend the webinars, the recordings are available on the Grants program YouTube playlist. While the Learning Session webinar is specific to the current Competitive Grant cycle, information in the Marketing Info Session and Crafting a Strong Budget webinars may be useful resources for other grant programs both inside and outside of Travel Oregon.
Applicants to the grant program must propose a project that focuses on either tourism infrastructure or tourism promotion that increases access and inclusion. The Letter of Intent (LOI) form will be available at 8 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2024 and will be accepted until Jan. 15, 2025 at 5 p.m. The total funding available for this grant cycle is expected to be $5.2 million.
To learn more about the program and to support project planning ideas, view the list of projects funded during the last grant cycle. Inquiries about the grants program can be made at any time, please email grants@traveloregon.com.
Future of Travel webinar
On Dec. 16, Travel Oregon hosted the Future of Travel webinar, presented in partnership with Share More Stories, Inc, JMI, The Culturist Group, and Esra Calvert Consulting. If you missed it or would like to watch it again, the webinar recording is available here.
If you attended the event or watched the recording, we would appreciate your feedback so that we can continue to offer programming that is relevant and engaging for our partners. Please take the post-webinar survey by Jan. 15.
Ask an Expert
Travel Oregon has identified and vetted consultants who are available to provide free one-on-one consultations and resources to Oregon’s tourism-related businesses, DMOs and non-profits. These consultants are equipped to provide industry partners with critical tourism stewardship and development information, technical assistance and resources to elevate key tourism niches. Tourism topic areas for consultation include trail stewardship, outdoor recreation, tour/guide/outfitter operations, dark sky tourism and agritourism. Requestors can receive up to two hours of direct consultation and up to an additional three hours of research and follow-up support.
Any Oregon tourism industry partner can access these consultations free of charge by completing an Ask an Expert form.
Share Your Story
Travel Oregon is accepting story idea submissions for our consumer-facing and industry-facing communication channels. Content may be used for media pitching and shared internally for consideration across Travel Oregon’s channels. We’d love to hear about tourism offerings, experiences or destinations that can be included in a future editorial pitch.