Mobile County Officials Work to Boost Dauphin Island Tourism

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.