Join Visit Tucson
Stretch your marketing dollars further by reaching visitors when planning their trip and during their stay.
Why Become a Visit Tucson Member?
Visit Tucson membership dues can be your best-spent marketing dollars of the year, offering you incredible value for little investment. Membership offers:
Exposure
Showcase your business or organization on our website, used annually by more than 2.6 million unique visitors to plan vacations, meetings, and relocation in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Members receive benefits like:
- Enhanced website listings on VisitTucson.org - Your business listing takes the form of a mini web page and promotes you to leisure visitors, convention attendees, and residents. Depending on your membership level, your listing can include a description, photos, logo, website link, social media channel links, Google map, and a three-minute YouTube video. Members can quickly and easily keep their listings updated via our Partner Portal.
- Enhanced website listings on our Spanish language Vamos a Tucson website and Mexico visitor center promotion - Reach visitors from Mexico who spend more than $1 billion annually in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Visit Tucson's Vamos a Tucson website includes member listings in specific interest categories to assist Spanish-speaking visitors with information on metro Tucson’s accommodations, dining, shopping, and attractions. Joining us at the Relationship or Visibility level includes a Spanish language translation of your listing description, increasing your engagement with our Spanish-speaking audience. Our Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico Visitor Centers promote visitation to Tucson and assist in making reservations and creating itineraries featuring Visit Tucson member businesses.
- Offer your coupons and deals - Submit your promotion and we will not only feature it on our website and your listing, but also make it available to meetings and event planners that have booked their meeting in Tucson. Post an offer to drive business to your location.
Direct Referrals
Receive qualified referrals from our call-in information center and the Southern Arizona Heritage & Visitor Center. We assist more than 30,000 individuals each year either in person or by phone and email. We also operate two visitor centers in Mexico. Your business can be referred by Visit Tucson staff who promote your goods and services to visitors, residents, convention planners, group tour operators, sports planners, film production crews and more. Keep us informed about your specials and seasonal offerings to make the most out of this benefit.
Convention Calendar Access
View a complete list of upcoming conventions, meetings, sports events, and tour groups to promote your product or service by contacting the planner directly. When a meeting is booked, the calendar is updated giving you real-time access. Members have visibility to projected room nights, projected attendance, and hotel headquarters for groups coming to our area. Access the convention calendar via the Partner Portal.
Industry Networking & Information
- Valuable business contacts and industry insider information - Visit Tucson's networking events put you in touch with key colleagues in Tucson's hospitality and tourism industry. As the #1 tourism connection in our community, Visit Tucson membership can help you create new business and garner new marketing tools. Partners have access to discounted tickets for our quarterly Tucson Tourism Trends breakfasts, our Annual Meeting, and our Meet and See mixers designed to bring you together with your industry colleagues.
- Training - The training and educational opportunities Visit Tucson offers are some of the most valuable benefits of your Visit Tucson membership. For our Relationship and Visibility level members, our business development trainings are designed to help you improve and grow your business. Our educational seminars feature "how-to" topics specifically for businesses and organizations interested in gaining new techniques for reaching Tucson-area visitors, meeting planners, and sports groups. Multiple trainings are offered throughout the year. Membership also includes annual enrollment for your staff in our Certified Tourism Ambassador™ (CTA) certification course. Our CTA program is an internationally recognized certification that trains participants how to provide a positive experience for every visitor to our area.
- Member orientations - Get to know Visit Tucson department directors and learn about our current destination marketing efforts. Get the details on participating in unique marketing targeted to specific audiences.
- Travel and tourism research and data - Access the latest travel and tourism data and statistics to inform and grow your business.
All of this and much more starting at just $400 per year for a small business!
