BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:Central Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T130000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:AI for Small Tourism Businesses: Get Found by International Travelers DESCRIPTION:Event Information Courtesy of\nAbout This Event Roughly one in five international travelers now use AI to plan their trips\, and they're asking tools like ChatGPT\, Gemini\, and Google's AI Overviews where to eat\, stay\, and explore. For a small restaurant\, winery\, attraction\, or tour operator\, that changes how new visitors find you and most small businesses are either unsure where to start or getting pitched expensive AI tools they don't need. This session is a practical\, jargon-free starter guide. Janette Roush\, Senior Vice President\, Innovation & Chief AI Officer for Brand USA\, walks through what a small tourism business actually needs to know: how travelers are using AI to plan\, the handful of free things you can do this month to show up in AI answers\, how to keep your business information accurate across the tools travelers trust\, and how to tell a genuinely useful AI vendor from one selling hype. Submit your questions here. We're collecting them in advance so the session answers what you actually want to know. DMO and tourism-board partners: this one is built for your members. Please invite the small businesses across your destination. Who should attend: Small tourism businesses restaurants\, wineries\, attractions\, lodging\, tour operators and the DMOs who support them. What you'll leave with: How international travelers are actually using AI to plan\, and what that means for you A short\, free\, do-it-this-week checklist to show up in AI answers How to keep your business details accurate across AI tools and maps How to spot AI vendors overselling where AI is worth paying for\, and where free tools do the job Answers to the questions you submit in advance X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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About This Event \;

Roughly one in five international travelers now use AI to plan their trips\, and they&rsquo\;re asking tools like ChatGPT\, Gemini\, and Google&rsquo\;s AI Overviews where to eat\, stay\, and explore. For a small restaurant\, winery\, attraction\, or tour operator\, that changes how new visitors find you &ndash\; and most small businesses are either unsure where to start or getting pitched expensive AI tools they don&rsquo\;t need. \;

This session is a practical\, jargon-free starter guide. Janette Roush\, Senior Vice President\, Innovation &\; Chief AI Officer for Brand USA\, walks through what a small tourism business actually needs to know: how travelers are using AI to plan\, the handful of free things you can do this month to show up in AI answers\, how to keep your business information accurate across the tools travelers trust\, and how to tell a genuinely useful AI vendor from one selling hype. \;

Submit your questions here. \;

We&rsquo\;re collecting them in advance so the session answers what you actually want to know. DMO and tourism-board partners: this one is built for your members. Please invite the small businesses across your destination. \;

Who should attend: Small tourism businesses &ndash\; restaurants\, wineries\, attractions\, lodging\, tour operators &ndash\; and the DMOs who support them. \;

What you&rsquo\;ll leave with: \;

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