With an eye to increasing the area’s 6 million annual visitors, the Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau today unveiled a new, high-definition commercial for Richmond.
Close to a hundred city boosters came to the Third Street visitors’ center Tuesday morning to watch the premiere of the video. Versions will be promoted online, shown at conferences and used in the bureau’s pitches to meeting planners.
On its own, a video can’t make people decide to visit Richmond, acknowledges the bureau’s e-marketing manager, Mike Ritchie. Its intention, he says, is to be a preview of "the region’s coming attractions."
The video packs a lot of Richmond attractions into just three minutes and 30 seconds. In order:
The J.E.B. Stuart statue
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
The Citie of Henricus
Biking
Rafting
Grooving
"Garden parties -- and mosh pits."
"Monuments -- and microbrews."
"High style -- and heavy ink."
Thomas Jefferson
Pocahontas
Edgar Allan Poe
The Shockoe Slip parking lot where religious freedom was born
The Geico caveman developed (and since dropped) by the
Martin Agency
Goats
Indoor rock-climbing
Segways
Museums
A fish statue painted with the Confederate flag
Cannons
Short Pump Town Center
Farms
The Slave Trail
The Virginia Historical Society
More cannons
The VMFA
Live music
Sushi
Hibachi
Thai food
Giraffes
Parakeets
Go-karts
Carytown
Learning
Canal boat rides
The Virginia State Capitol
Hollywood Cemetery
Roller coasters
Whitewater
Golf
NASCAR
Colonial Downs
The Rams
The Flying Squirrels
"The Richmond Region is the place, people."
Hugging
Another cannon
Jumping
"It’s a place filled with flowers. Statues. And beauty."
What do you think? Did the bureau leave anything out?
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