Denver Tourist Information

Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock presents with a few associated with city's mascots in front of VISIT DENVER's newly exposed hi-tech Tourist Information Center.

Picture credit Jensen Sutta (PRNewsFoto/VISIT DENVER, The Convention & V)

The town’s mascots — the dreaded Dinger with his belly nonetheless chilling out, the major Blue Bear looking strangely tiny, and some more walking fake fur balls needing a good vacuuming — all gathered around Mayor Michael Hancock at Monday’s grand-opening festivities for the new, high-tech Tourism Information Center at 1575 California Street, just from the 16th Street Mall. “For some explanation personally i think extremely confident with them all, ” stated the gran, whom played Huddles, a Broncos mascot, as a young adult.

As well as the swanky area is comfortable, also, with B-cycle bicycles dangling through the roof, a LoDo-looking solid brick wall, rows of old-school brochures, and outstanding shopping area (alone inside city's three info centers) where tourists can buy even smaller blue bears (since the city features guaranteed the liberties to create miniatures of singer Lawrence Argent’s “we See What You Mean”) and souvenir tees which are really made in Colorado (thank you, Coloradical) rather than the made-in-Haiti figures because of the incorrect date of Denver's founding that you could purchase at Denver airport terminal. There's also advanced touch screens to make certain that visitors can plan their amount of time in Denver aided by the tip of a finger. They’ll want to use that hand if they need know about recreational pot, however, though itis the very first thing folks ask you about once they understand you are from Colorado. Because there are no brochures that mention appropriate cannabis, no glass pipelines for sale…and no formal visits from Little friend, the mythical cannabis mascot that hangs around every Colorado tourism event nowadays — undesirable and uninvited, but unavoidable.

The Colorado Tourism Office won a prestigious award when it comes to condition featuring its turn on campaign, which studiously prevents any mention of cannabis; plugging “marijuana” into Colorado.com’s search function regularly net you exactly nothing — however in a tardy concession to reality, these days it sends you to goodtoknowcolorado.com, the Colorado Department of Public wellness & Environment’s academic cannabis campaign. Browse Denver makes use of very similar strategy; in place of provide the tips on their own, denver.org and those touch displays send you to regional municipalities for marijuana dos and don’ts. And also as he spoke for this city’s tourism achievements — worldwide visit Denver enhanced 22 per cent in 2014, and Denver's total tourism has grown by 48 per cent since 2005, as soon as the national development had been only 15 percent: "get Denver!" — Hancock didn’t refer to marijuana, often. But he doesn’t need to, because Little friend is often dangling floating around.

As well the town was showing its brand-new center, an email sailed through cyberspace from cheapflights.com, noting that online searches on the webpage for flights to Denver increased 37 % in 2014, since individuals are unexpectedly much more thinking about browsing “now more aptly known as Mile High City of Denver.”

Over time, noted Richard Scharf, CEO of see Denver, the town’s customer centers have actually gotten some strange questions: “We’ve been asked from ‘What season is it right now in Denver?’ to ‘When do deer become elk?’ to ‘Which fourteeners can we climb up from downtown Denver?’ But since funny since these questions tend to be, they show there is a need to educate our visitors concerning the town and exactly what there clearly was to see and do, and therefore’s why we function all of them.”

Which’s the reason why it is high time to bring minimal Buddy from the shadows and gives Denver’s visitors some grown-up information on this state’s most recent tourist destination.