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Category: Chamber Corner Chamber Corner
Published: 04 October 2017 04 October 2017

About a week ago, the Chamber of Commerce hosted a Tourism Economic Summit with the New Mexico Hospitality Association. Over 70 local people attended, and we heard good comments about the meeting. One of the points that came up several times during the meeting is that we need to find a "Brand" for tourism in Silver City and Grant County.

To do this, we probably need to make some tough choices or decisions that will more than likely not make everyone happy. We need to ask ourselves… do we really want to be a tourism destination and what markets do we want to specifically target? What must we do and how do we grow to become the destination we want to be? What new forms of business or expansion of current business will help us meet our goals?

We really need to do something. We can't just sit back and hope for the best. We need to dream big and then turn the big dreams into reality. We need to find a way to unleash the dreamers in our community to come up with fantastic ideas. Then we need to ask the doers in our community, those people that like to get things done, to make the dreams happen.

I was listening to football legend, Coach Lou Holtz, give a graduation commencement speech. One thing he said really stood out… "There's never a right time to do the wrong thing, and there's never a wrong time to do the right thing." Our time to do the right thing is right now.

So, is there anything going on in Grant County this weekend?

I guess the answer to that question is "YES".

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