The Sullivan County Visitors Association organizes an annual brochure exchange (video)

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Liberty – To celebrate the National Tourism Week, the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association (SCVA) organized their annual brochure and swap and networking event in Liberty. While the event is usually held outside in a tailgate format, this year's rainy weather brought it inside. Despite the change, the energy remained high when local companies gathered to connect the materials, exchange and promote tourism in the region.

Skyler Strauss from SCVA spoke about the value of the direction of this type of events and emphasized how they help to build relationships between local companies and promote regional cooperation.

“Only through communication with each other do you talk about this business and this business and what is going on this weekend and next weekend,” she said. “Let me introduce this person who organizes a market and you want these providers and so on.”

Also present were members of the Wurtsboro Board of Trade who took part in raising awareness of what the village of Wurtsboro has to offer.

The Board President Jaryn Horton-Jennex said that it is important that companies get to know each other throughout Sullivan County and explore the opportunities for cooperation.

“We have many small events and big events. These events bring people from near and far to the community,” she said. “Our street fair is one of our biggest events and we already have 130 providers.”

One of the latest business owners of the district, Sara Patterson of Crooked Willow Pottery in Bethel, recently joined the Visitors Association and took part in the event for the first time. She pushed excitement to promote her business and connect with others in the region.

Patterson says that she is optimistic about the future and ready to grow with the support of the community. “Because I am a new business, I hoped to meet some of the other business owners and see who does what in the country in the county. I have just opened a business for my pottery, and I want to help people find and find what they are interested in.”