The Bronzeville Visitor Information Center is opening it's signature Economic Development Project:

The Bronzeville Tourism Incubator

The purpose of our incubator is :

• Collect Community Input on the types of Business that you would see in Bronzeville.
• Assess Community Businesses located in Bronzeville and determine where they fit into a tourism economy.
• Promote the neighborhood and the neighborhood businesses through the acquisition of a tour bus.
• Solicit the participation of local business and make them stops on the various tours that we conduct in Bronzeville.
• Use tourism to replace the sales lost to the local businesses due to the loss of local residents.
• Attract new businesses to the Bronzeville community.

Welcome to the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center 2012 tour season! We are looking forward to the visitors of Chicago exploring sights and attractions in the Bronzeville community. We would like to welcome the interns and students that are participating with the Center this year. Our thanks to Google Education Department for connecting us to a great program! Here is a brief description of the program:

"Ad Words in the Curriculum provides high school students with a unique opportunity to learn about the online advertising industry in a formal high school course. Based on the specialized skills the students learn in this course, students from Skyline High School will work with your existing Grants account to optimize & create highly-targeted campaigns for your organization in order to maximize your potential in our program."

We asked the students for a description of the program that the were participating in and what their goals were. Our students are - Jeffery, Justine, Chris, and Dillion.

"We go to Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The business magnet program is a program our school offers to students who are interested in pursuing careers in business.  We are able to get hands-on opportunities in the business world and take electives specifically catered to our interest in business during our sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school.  Senior year, we are also able to get internships and work on a capstone project through the magnet program.

The Bronzeville Mobile Tour Bus is an important next step in our community-based heritage tourism development efforts.  We will purchase a used passenger van, and with the graphic design talents of Walter Freeman of ef Design Group, wrap the entire vehicle to create a moving billboard.  The Bronzeville Tour Bus is a, economic development and grassroots marketing initiaitve of the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center (BVIC), a 501c3 not-for-profit Destination Marketing Organization (DMO).  The BVIC is a Tourism Information Hub for the historic Bronzeville community, that focuses on preserving, enhancing and sustaining the authentic Chicago cultural legacies of blues, jazz, gospel music and the politics that lead to the election of the first African American President of the United States of America.

Visit http://kck.st/AkLyfn to see more and view the terms......