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Chamber warns tourism contract uncertainty could stall VisitPullman momentum
Summary
Pullman Chamber leaders told the city council on March 25 that the city’s tourism contract ends in 2025 and a required RFP could disrupt ongoing projects—including a new VisitPullman website, events calendar and analytics work—unless the council provides a pathway for continuity.
Marie Demkoski, executive director of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, and Alexis Faran, the chamber’s tourism promotions manager, told the Pullman City Council on March 25 that the chamber’s three‑year tourism contract with the city ends at the end of 2025 and that a newly required RFP process has created uncertainty for ongoing projects and staff.
The chamber’s presentation described a new VisitPullman website launched in late October 2024, an events calendar that the chamber says centralizes dozens of local listings, an analytics program using Placer AI and CrowdRift to measure visitor origin and activity, and other marketing work the chamber says supports local festivals and lodging tax proposals. Alexis Faran said the site and tools were developed under the current contract and that closing out or interrupting those efforts would leave 2026 “unplanned for.”
The chamber argued the timing of an RFP hurts long‑term…
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