Rocklake, ND

This is North Dakota’s handle for tourism promotion. I think it fits ND pretty well!!! I attended the ND tourism conference in Mandan on April 20-22. This was the first conference I have attended and thank you to the Horizons program for sponsoring the trip for me. It was a very interesting and educational conference. There were alot of attendees that are very passionate about tourism in their communities. I had the privilege of visiting with numerous attendees from our area of the state. There were 3 speakers by the names of Bill Baker, his presentation was on destination branding for small cities. Scott Deming’s presentation was on ultimate customer experience and Garrison Wynn’s presentations was making the most of difficult situations. Scott and Garrison did their presentations with fast paced energy and humor. I attended 2 break out sessions on RVing presented by Dottie Maitland. This is a booming tourism industry. RV’s and motorcoaches make vacationing anywhere easy access. These travel machines are used by everyone these days not just senior citizens. People want vacation packages and learning vacations. They don’t want the same o, same o!!!! I came away from the conference excited about tourism. Our tourism dept in ND is excited about tourism so it gets kinda catchy!!! Visit the ND website on tourism and see what they promote. www.ndtourism.com is the website.

So what does Rock Lake, ND have to offer tourists????? This is a question that needs to be answered if we want to survive. Can we think out of the box or are we the same o, same o!!?? Rock Lake, ND needs to become legendary………………….