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2025-2026 Is <br />1:m S PROGRAM OF WORK E XAS <br />Mission Statement: <br />The Paris Visitors & Convention Council will provide all necessary services and information to <br />visitors/tourists, and develop programs to attract meetings, conventions, sports events, groups, and <br />other activities that will produce economic benefits for the Paris community. <br />PROJECTS: <br />• Endeavor to attract groups and individuals by providing marketing materials, e.g. social media videos, literature, <br />website information, calendar of events, visitor and newcomer guides, maps, historical tour guides, interactive <br />map and app, as well as brochures. <br />• Promote Paris and Lamar County as an event location to meeting and event planners. <br />• Work with existing partners to continue and expand annual events. <br />• Evaluate and potentially offer funding for events that bring 'heads -in -beds.' <br />• Encourage civic clubs and local businesses to hold meetings and events in Paris <br />• Biking Destination <br />• Wedding Destination <br />• Work with City to promote Lake Crook and events <br />Develop and broaden existing events: <br />• Tour de Paris Bicycle Rally <br />• "Hell of North Texas" Gravel Grind partnering with Tour <br />de Paris <br />• Paris Balloon Festival and Music Festival <br />• ASA "Southwest Shootout"Archery Tournament <br />• Southern Drag Boat Races <br />• Two separate square-dance conventions <br />• Antique car events <br />• Fishing tournaments <br />• Baseball and Softball tournaments <br />• Indoor Archery Tournament <br />• Blaze Trails Running <br />• Golf Events <br />• Pump Track Events <br />• TMBRA -Barber Hills <br />• Marathon Events <br />• Concerts Downtown and Civic Center <br />• Outlaw Drag Boats <br />• Jet tribe let Ski <br />• Kayak Adventure Series <br />Bolster promotion of area attractions: <br />• Entryway Signs <br />• Sports Complex (Indoor & Fields) <br />• indoor Rodeo Arena <br />• Eiffel Tower Maintenance <br />• Red River Valley Veterans Memorial <br />• Trail de Paris and the North East Texas Trail <br />• Sam Bell Maxey House <br />• Lake Crook <br />• Lake Crook Boat Ramp <br />• Pat Mayse Lake <br />• Historic Downtown <br />• Lamar County Courthouse <br />• Historic Evergreen Cemetery <br />• Lamar County Historical Museum <br />• Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center <br />• Lamar County Historical Genealogy Library <br />• John Chisum Monument <br />• Promote Historical Trolley Tours <br />• Paris Community Theatre <br />• Love Civic Center <br />• Promote the expansion of the NETT <br />• Heads in beds <br />• Pump Track <br />• Pump Track Lights <br />• Pickleboll Courts <br />• Barber Hills <br />• Farmers Market <br />