Tourism Promotion Committee

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• Wilsonville City Hall
  29799 SW Town Center Loop E
  Wilsonville, OR 97070

About the Committee

The Tourism Promotion Committee has three primary areas of responsibility:

1. The Committee oversees implementation of the “Visit Wilsonville” Tourism Development Strategy and is charged specifically to develop a larger Five-Year Action Plan and annual One-Year Implementation Plans for fulfilling the Tourism Development Strategy, to be presented and recommended to City Council for approval.

2. The Committee makes recommendations to the City Council for tourism- and visitor-related marketing, promotions, expenditures and related programs and services that will result in increased tourism activity, as measured by overnight room stays at local lodging properties. The tourism promotion program is funded by the transient lodging tax (TLT) revenues.

Due to the unique multi-disciplinary, inter-department nature of the Committee’s program of action, the Committee is a board of the Administration Department / Office of the City Manager with participation from the City Parks and Recreation Department.

Committee Members

The Tourism Promotion Committee consists of 12 members total, including seven voting members drawn from the hospitality and tourism industry in the greater Wilsonville area and five ex-officio, advisory members composed of tourism professionals and key City officials. The seven voting members are:

• Chair Brandon Roben, CEO, Oaks Amusement Park, Portland; former Executive Director of Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville.
• Sungmin Park, Owner, Holiday Inn Portland South - Wilsonville
• ​Jennifer Gage, former General Manager,  Abella Italian Kitchen
• Lynn Sanders, former Marketing Director, St. Louis Galleria 
• Rohit Sharma, Owner, RR Hotels Portland, LLC 
• Elaine Owen, Owner,  Lady Hill Winery
• Vacant

The five ex-officio, advisory members are:

• Clackamas County Tourism and Cultural Affairs, dba "Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory":
  • Samara Phelps, Director (or designee)
  • Jim Austin, Development & Community Relations Lead
• Washington County Visitors Association
  • Dave Parulo, President/CEO (or designee)
  • Sylke Neal-Finnegan, Vice President of Marketing & Communications
• Wilsonville Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Kevin Ferrasci O'Malley, CEO (or designee)
• City Parks and Recreation Director or designee:
  • Kris Ammerman, Parks & Recreation Director (or designee)
  • Brian Stevenson, Parks & Recreation Coordinator

• City Councilor: Caroline Berry 
   

Tourism Development Strategy Update