Tourism Updates

Update: November 18, 2020

 

Maine’s tourism industry is facing an unprecedented challenge as travel is being significantly impacted by the COVID-19 virus. While it is impossible to speculate on the overall impact COVID-19 will have on the travel industry, the Maine Office of Tourism (MOT) is providing periodic updates on travel and tourism in Maine.

Keep Maine Healthy is a multilayered approach to protecting Maine residents and visitors and supporting Maine businesses by reducing COVID-19 risks associated with travel. The plan works to provide one of the safest places for people to travel.

Maine Office of Tourism Marketing Updates 

• Summer 2020 Visitation Overview: MOT 2020 Preliminary Summer Data
• Earned Media and Organic Social Media Program: 2020 Marshall

Watch or listen to the October 29 MOT Quarterly Stakeholders’ virtual meeting:

• Video
• Audio Only

Useful Tools

1. The Pledge to Protect ME is a new online option for visitors to use to complete the Certificate of Compliance. For details about how to share and receive information about this new online tool, download the PledgeToProtectME-FAQ.
2. VisitMaine.com’s Travel With Care page provides: information regarding quarantine protocols, testing protocols and how to get tested in Maine; a Certificate of Compliance; and Keep Maine Healthy FAQs.
3. Marshall Communications has written this guide for social media best practices 2020.
4. Download a poster about Maine’s mask requirements here for use in your business:

Wear A Mask Poster – 8.5×11  /  Wear A Mask Poster – 11×17
Wear A Mask Poster – 8.5×11 V2 / Wear A Mask Poster – 11×17 V2

Helpful Links 

1. Keep Maine Healthy FAQ
2. The Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention
3. The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development 
4. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5. The U.S. Travel Association