Yesterday morning, photolab507 became the 600th member of our Absolute Michigan photo group on Flickr, just over 2 months since our 500th member joined and just over a week since the 15,000th photo was added. We're looking forward to more photos like this interesting view of the Amway Grand in Grand Rapids!
March 28, 2007 – 10:18 am
The Michigan Tourism Strategic Plan was unveiled Monday at the Driving Tourism 2007 conference by the Michigan Tourism Planning Council. Michigan's tourism industry generates $17.5 billion dollars in annual revenue, 200,000 jobs and almost $1 billion in state tax revenue, and the architects of the plan have set the goal of growing Michigan to [...]
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Organizers of the National Cherry Festival (which brings over a half million visitors to Traverse City each July) are teaming up with the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa to launch the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest. The three day winter celebration will feature music, food, wine and winter sports takes place March 2-4, 2007.
The festival takes [...]
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February 26, 2007 – 10:07 am
Bring Back Rail Transit by B. Rizzo
As Grand Rapids enjoys a bit of an economic boom, the city is looking to continue to grow and attract by revitalizing the face of public transportation, with streetcars.
Andy Guy of the Michigan Land Use Institute explains in his recent article Agency Endorses Grand Rapids Streetcar.
Emboldened by rave reviews [...]
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February 14, 2007 – 8:57 am
We Love Detroit by Devo(lutio)n
In their Valentine's feature Detroit is for Lovers, Model D takes you on a sort of romantic and definitely whirlwind tour of the Motor City that takes you to the bar (then from the bar), around the city, moving in, moving out.
If you're in the Mid-Michigan area, think about stopping [...]
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February 13, 2007 – 9:46 am
If you're looking for something unique for your sweetie this year for Valentine's Day, Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan has 14 gift ideas and activities to consider. As usual, we'd love it if you'd add any other suggestions in the comments!
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February 12, 2007 – 9:45 am
Late Afternoon Beach by nomm de photo
The Detroit News feature Mich. aims more cash at tourism credits the $13.2 million "Pure Michigan" marketing effort for helping the state to hold serve in a tough tourism market, saying that:
Travel Michigan used half of a two-year, $15 million grant it received last year to help pay for [...]
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December 28, 2006 – 10:23 am
Michigan Radio reports that Crystal Mountain in Thompsonville, Ski Brule in Iron River and Mount Holly in Southeast Michigan are all celebrating 50 years of skiing and other snowsports. It's a wide-ranging feature that looks at where the industry began and where it is today.
According to the Michigan Snowsports Industries Association, downhill skiing, snowboarding, cross [...]
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November 10, 2006 – 9:24 pm
The photographer says she's a writer, mother, wife, pirate and it sounds as if she enjoys that. While her blog (and home) is in Indianapolis, she comes to Michigan and takes pictures every so often.
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