Category Archives: Resorts

Inaugural Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest

March 1, 2007 – 8:51 am

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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Valentine's Day Fun in Michigan

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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Michigan Valentine's Day – How Sweet it Is!

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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Impact of Pure Michigan tourism promotion

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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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did!
The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there.

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Three Michigan ski resorts mark 50th anniversary

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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Freedom at Idlewild

February 24, 2006 – 4:07 pm

Idlewild, wild and free
Our jumpin' rhythms always calling me,
Country air, sweet and strong,
Packing up my suitcase
So it won't be long,
Sing and dance 'til sundown,
It's such a rat race in Chicago town,
Still I feel like a child,
Cuz I'm heading up to Idlewild.
When Ray Kamalay of Lansing, Michigan, wrote this poem, he hoped to capture the excitement [...]

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