{"id":1617,"date":"2013-08-27T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:32:08","slug":"carolann-ouellette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/carolann-ouellette\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 76: Director of the Maine Office of Tourism Carolann Ouellette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 76
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, August\u00a024
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Carolann Ouellette
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Carolann Ouellette knew at the age of seven that she wanted to own a cabin in the woods. \u00a0The current director of the Maine Office of Tourism, Ouellette\u00a0graduated from Cornell University with her Bachelor\u2019s in Hotel Administration program.\u00a0\u00a0Then the California native moved to Maine and worked for Matt Polstein\u2019s New England Outdoors Center in the Millinocket area.\u00a0 Here her duties included filling in as a whitewater raft guide, managing the Sugarloaf Inn for 18 months and then in 1997 she bought the Moose Point Tavern in Jackman.<\/p>\n

Ouellette has chaired the Jackman Revolving Loan Fund and has been a committee member of the Old Canada Road Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan.\u00a0 Ouellette has also held the position of president of the Maine Tourism Association.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) discussed state tourism with Director\u00a0of the Maine Office of Tourism\u00a0Carolann Ouellette (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Ouellette was named Director of the Maine Office of Tourism <\/a>in February 2011 after having been with the Office since 2007. \u00a0Ouellette\u2019s current responsibilities include the overall operations of the Offices of Tourism and Film. She provides strategic direction and planning for the major elements of the office\u2019s integrated marketing programs, including Advertising, Media Relations, International Promotions, Research, Product Development and Special Promotions.<\/p>\n

Ouellette described for Stevoe the Maine Office of Tourism’s new marketing plan and how the focus is on real people, telling real stories.\u00a0 The Office has interviewed and photographed a group of individuals who provide an inside scoop of Maine, as only Mainers know.<\/p>\n

The Maine Office of Tourism 2013 Marketing Strategy reported that tourism supports 85,500 jobs, or about 13 percent of employment in Maine.\u00a0 The Office spends about $9 million each year promoting Maine.\u00a0 If the money spent by all tourists in Maine were to drop by 15 percent, the average Maine household would see a tax increase of about $113 to maintain government services at current levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe featured an interview with Director of the Maine Office of Toursim Carolann Ouellette. Ouellette told host Steve Woods about the mission of the Maine Office of Tourism, to “promote and expand the industry of Maine Tourism and Film”. The two discussed the eight tourism regions in Maine and how each receive yearly grants from the state and Ouellette described the office’s new marketing plan and how the focus is on real people, telling real stories.” Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}