Officials Work to Boost Dauphin Island Tourism
Senator Ben Brooks, R-Mobile, sponsored a bill that will allow Dauphin Island and other south Mobile County to set up an organization to promote attractions and lure visitors to the area.“The local tourism development folks will have a much stronger tool to use,” said Sen. Brooks. The new tourism organization should be promoting local spots within months. His bill doesn’t actually create a new tourism promotion group. Instead, it gives cities and counties the authority to jointly launch such organizations by passing their own resolutions. Regional leaders have some legal work to do before the group can get started but they are looking to act on it quickly.
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William Barrick, serves on two Mobile County visitors organizations; he is the executive director of Bellingrath Gardens and Home, and serves on the board of directors for the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau. He anticipates that the two Mobile County organizations will have a complementary rather than a competitive relationship. “We’re looking to try to have this organization be actively involved in promoting... attractions and destinations south of Interstate 10,” Barrick said.
This new organization is not competing with Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. The success of the Baldwin County tourism organization was actually part of the inspiration for creating a similar group in south Mobile County, said Sen. Brooks. While Gulf Shores and Orange Beach offer lots of events and activity, Dauphin Island has beaches with a small-town feel. This new group will certainly aid in getting more of the clientele that Dauphin Island attracts.
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