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Convention and Visitor Bureau about to take first steps (02/25/09)
Ultimately, the goal is to bring tour buses back to Le Mars, to create regional, even statewide interest in Le Mars and draw people here. But right now, the fledgling Le Mars Convention and Visitor Bureau is just taking shape. Last week, the Le Mars City Council preserved $60,000 of the Hotel/Motel Tax revenue with the idea of using that money to create a center of tourism, recreation, convention and lodging information for Le Mars...

Music festival uses hotel/motel tax grant to bring people to Le Mars (08/28/08)
A Hotel/Motel Sales Tax grant is paying off for Le Mars. More than $6,000 of the 5 percent sales tax revenue from hotel and motel rooms rented in town was given to a group advertising the 33rd annual National Old Time Country and Bluegrass Music Festival, held this year in Le Mars for the first time...

Gas prices only take small bite out of summer traffic (08/22/08)
By 10:30 a.m. a man from Charles City had already finished his breakfast: a vanilla cone at the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor. Before 5 p.m. that same day, a woman from San Francisco, Calif. was posed outside to get her picture taken with the old fashioned milk truck...

'One-stop' visitor bureau a possibility for Le Mars (07/07/08)
Some local brainstormers are suggesting the idea of a new convention and visitor bureau for Le Mars. Being billed as a "one-stop-shop" for tourism, lodging, recreation and convention information, the proposed bureau could be paid for with part of the Hotel/Motel Sales Tax revenue...

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