Join Discover Ames!
Become a Discover Ames member and you can help visitors STAY, DO, EAT, SHOP, and PLAN. . .perhaps at your business!
Discover Ames provides valuable services to the Ames community
- Our sales and events team recruits, plans, and serves hundreds of group meetings, conferences, athletic competitions, and youth events each year
- In 2019, the Ames Convention & Visitors Bureau (now Discover Ames) welcomed nearly 500,000 overnight visitors and thousands more single-day visitors to our community
- Overnight visitors annually bring more than $120 million to the city of Ames
- Through digital and print communications, Discover Ames promotes your business and provides a strong, consistent voice for Ames
- NEW IN ’22: Expanded visitors guide, improved website, social media, and tourism newsletters
New for 2022: Supporter and Partner membership levels tailored to YOUR business type!
Partner Level: $250/yr
- Visitors guide: Featured listing
- Website (DiscoverAmes.com): Featured listing
- Visitors guide advertising: 20% discount
- Social media: Featured post
- Coop advertising
- Inclusion in welcome bags (promo item)
- Padded maps (hotel/restaurant listings)
- Window decal
Supporter Level: $150/yr
- Visitors guide: Listing
- Website (DiscoverAmes.com): Listing
- Visitors guide advertising: 10% discount
We believe that Ames businesses who provide lodging, dining, shopping, and attractions will uniquely benefit from the new Discover Ames partner-level membership. We look forward to promoting your businesses!
Please note that due to the nature of the tourism industry, Discover Ames may choose to include some non-member businesses in listings on our website and in other print and digital media for the benefit of the Ames community and/or visitors.
For more information about becoming a new Discover Ames member or renewing your current membership, contact:
Carole Gieseke
515-956-4602
caroleg@discoverames.com