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St. Charles CVB
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Bureau Staff Amy Bull , Executive Director amy@visitstcharles.com Phone Extension # 103 In addition to interfacing with the SCCVB Board of Directors, the Illinois Bureau of Tourism and City of St. Charles officials, Amy represents St. Charles as a member of the Illinois Council of Convention & Visitors Bureaus and serves on the marketing committee of ChicagoPlus, a regional tourism development office serving the Chicago suburbs. She oversees the bureau's annual budget of just over one million dollars and directs all sales and marketing initiatives waged by the bureau in its mission to promote St. Charles as a destination for leisure visits, meetings, conventions, motorcoach trips, and sports events. Amy joined the SCCVB team in October 2005, with 18 years of experience with the hospitality industry. Five tourism marketing projects conceived and executed by Amy have been recipients of awards at the annual Illinois' Governor's Conference on Tourism.
Kathy has worked with the SCCVB since 1992 and served as its Executive Director from 1997-2008. As Associate Director, Kathy produces the award-winning Annual Scarecrow Festival, held every October on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Columbus Day Weekend. 60,000 people attend the city-wide event that has twice been named one of the top 100 events by the American Bus Association. Kathy also oversees leisure tourism marketing and serves as the Bureau representative for local tourism awareness outreach projects.
The newest member of the SCCVB sales team, Carol is a committed hotel sales person who has served the Chicagoland market for 25 years. Carol's sales skills as well as her established relationships with meeting buyers combine to provide a wonderful foundation as she works the corporate, association, religious, military, education, fraternal, and ethnic markets. Carol is an active member of Chicago's chapter of MPI and oversees the activities of the St. Charles hotel committee which meets quarterly to discuss trends and SCCVB sales activities.
Jenny joined the SCCVB sales team in October 2006 to serve the motorcoach market and since then has added the sports market to her list of responsibilities. Jenny's previous experience as a meeting planner enabled her to hit the ground running in selling St. Charles as a destination. Jenny is particularly astute in customizing itineraries to suit affinity and student groups. Holding a communications degree from Illinois State University, Jenny also provides support for Bureau marketing initiatives, including creation of its annual coupon book and website development.
With a B.S. degree in business administration (Cum Laude, no less!) and eight years' hospitality experience (four in St. Charles), DeAnn's decision to join the SCCVB staff has been much welcomed by our staff. DeAnn oversees the operations of the office, with responsibilities ranging from in-house accounting procedures to ensuring that state grant requirements are being met to being first point of contact for our technology needs.
Well-respected throughout the local tourism community, Diane worked at Pheasant Run Resort for more than 30 years before joining the SCCVB team. Diane makes certain all events and hotel package information is current and posted on www.visitstcharles.com and sent on to the Illinois Bureau of Tourism for state-wide promotion. Diane also provides servicing and coordinates temporary staffing for meetings and conventions held in St. Charles.
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