ENID, OK - Now is the time to register for the 2019 Annual Red Carpet Country Conference in Enid. The conference will take place at the Stride Bank Center on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. Registration deadline is August 13. Cost is $50 for members and $75 for non-members.
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Communities and tourism-related businesses in Red Carpet Country are invited to bring a display to promote an attraction, business or event during the Annual Tourism Conference. If interested, contact: Marcy Jarrett, 580-616-7368 or Marcy@VisitEnid.org by August 15, 2019.
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Schedule of Events:
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8:00 Registration—Silent Auction tables open
8:30 Welcome - Visit Enid & Red Carpet Country
8:45 Tourism Bootcamp 101 - Rob Houston, Visit Enid
Tourism Bootcamp 201 - Jennifer Kalkman, Digital Generator
9:30 Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell
9:50 Break
10:00 Creating your Elevator Speech, Amber Theinert, Koch Communications
10:50 Your Website is You to the World, Jennifer Kalkman, Digital Generator
11:45 Lunch - Networking - Silent Auction
12:15 Dr. Tim Faltyn, President Panhandle State University
1:00 Roundtable Topics
1:30 Break, Silent Auction closes
1:50 Diversifying With Agritourism, Meriruth Cohenour, OK Agritourism
2:45 Silent Auction winners announced. Please complete your survey.
3:15 Red Carpet Country Annual Meeting
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Download registration PDF HERE.
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About Red Carpet Country
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For tourism and marketing purposes the Oklahoma Department of Tourism divided Oklahoma into six regions or "countries." Northwest Oklahoma was designated Red Carpet Country due to the region's red soil and the fact that the panhandle alludes to a "red carpet" into Oklahoma.
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The other regions are Green Country, northeast; Choctaw Country, southeast; Chickasaw Country, south central; Great Plains Country, southwest; and Frontier Country, central.
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Red Carpet Country represents 16 counties in northwest and north central Oklahoma. The counties represented by Red Carpet Country are Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, Harper, Woods, Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Ellis, Woodward, Major, Garfield, Noble, Dewey, Blaine and Kingfisher counties. The largest cities are Enid, Ponca City, Woodward, Alva and Gyumon.
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Northwest Oklahoma is home to the Rita Blanca National Grassland, Great Salt Plains Lake and salt flats, Little Sahara State Park, Alabaster Caverns State Park, Black Mesa and the Glass (or Gloss) Mountains.
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Register For The Red Carpet Country Conference
