Destination Southwest Nova Association grants funding to festival and event organizers

Destination Southwest Nova Association (DSWNA), in partnership with the Department

of Tourism, Culture & Heritage has awarded

festivals and events funding assistance

cheques to several festival and event organizers

and communities at various visitor information

centres in the region.

The regional tourism association,

representing the Fundy Shore & Annapolis

Valley, Yarmouth & Acadian Shores and South Shore, works with the Department to

provide festivals and events assistance funding to those organizations that are able to

impact on incremental visitation and spending to the province. The program is designed

to provide cooperative support, through partnership, to a maximum of 50 per cent of the costs

associated with the direct-to-consumer marketing initiatives that are strategically in line

with both the festivals’/events’ mandate as well as the province’s objectives.

Destination Southwest Nova Association general manager, Madonna Spinazola,

says that “the festival and event organizers seemed

very pleased with the support of their regional tourism association and values the

commitment of DSWNA to the tourism industry in the region.” Spinazola goes on to

say that “it is through these partnerships with industry, communities and government that

tourism in the Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley, Yarmouth & Acadian Shores and South

Shore will be strengthened.”

Festivals and events that received funding for 2009-2010 in the Yarmouth & Acadian

Shores region include: