The State of Maine’s Office of Tourism has awarded a $165,000 grant to a black travel influencer as part of a marketing campaign aimed at attracting more “diverse visitors” and “Black travelers” to Maine.
The contract, dated Nov. 25, indicates that the $165,000 will go to Black Travel Maine, Inc., with a goal of “[Enhancing] Maine’s appeal to Black travelers through itinerary development, influencer engagement, communications and media relations.”
“This work will leverage targeted media relations and strategic partnerships to build awareness of Maine as a welcoming destination for Black travelers to increase year over year visitation of Black travelers to Maine,” the contract states.
Black Travel Maine was recently awarded a separate $7,000 taxpayer-funded contract in order to hold educational walking tours about the “historical struggles and contributions of Black individuals” and to dispel the myth that Maine is “too old and too white.”
The Nov. 25 contract states that it comes as the result of the Maine Office of Tourism’s DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) strategy team.
“Lisa Jones, Founder of Black Travel Maine, is an ideal partner for building awareness of Maine as a destination with the goal of attracting more Black travelers to Maine,” state staff wrote in the contract.
“Through Black Travel Maine and Black Travel Marketing, Lisa has orchestrated several influence and media trips that captures Maine’s cultural diversity and scenic landscape, directly enhancing Maine’s image as an inclusive destination,” they wrote.
“With her connections to influencers, media and content creators in this space, BTM will be able to leverage those relationships to expand Maine’s outreach to underrepresented markets by presenting unique and immersive experiences,” they added.
This marks the second non-competitive no-bid contract Black Travel Maine has received in about a monthlong period, totaling $172,000 in taxpayer dollars.
If the LL Bean catalog and Yankee Magazine are accurate, there are already loads of minorities in Maine.
Why are the Dems so concerned black people don’t want to come here?
Let people go where they want.
Are they going to try to entice white people to vacation in majority black areas?
mills wants more crime like NYC has.
If you visit Ft. Williams/Portland Head Light in the summer, there are numerous black people visiting the park by car. They also arrive by cruise ship and are bussed from Portland. There are also private buses from Springfield, MA and Bridgeport, CT, etc. with only blacks on them.
Buses with Asians from the Boston area show up on a daily basis. Several hundred Muslims gather for a picnic usually on weekends. And, this is just ONE Maine destination.
I have a sneaky suspicion this not about opening up Maine to black travelers but is a money making scam for Lisa Jones using taxpayer dollars.
Apparently mills hasn’t heard that black people despise democrats now and don’t want to live on her plantation.
When is this crap going to stop?
DEI
At this rate,pretty soon there will be no one in Africa to turn the lights off.
The only color tourism cares about is green.
Lewiston will be the first stop.
YO! YO! YO! Don’t need any more NONS up here, go south ya subhumans
What a racist state we are becoming under Mills and the democrats. So divisive
Black Travel Maine .
I want to vomit .
And I as a taxpayer have to fund this kind of bullshit .
I wish these black people would just go away .
I’m tired of feeding them , housing them, educating them and listening to them complain .
Go somewhere else if we don’t spend enough on you here .
Why does it matter what race comes to Maine to vacation? The left has lost it
Ive been seeing BLM tea shirts on the airplane when flying home lately.. scary looking people that i was wondering why they were coming here. But im probably a racist for pointing that out, right?
Earlier this year money was set aside for a get together to teach people how to take care of their goats. No lie, look it up. Under Agriculture something.
Black people Pareto principle 20% of the population causes 80% of the problems
Democrats closet bigotry.
At the end of the tour , participants are treated to a chilled lobster tail buffet with local vegetables wines and artisan breads. Local rock band legends
“ Rachel Talbot and The Race Baiters “ will provide the music . Maine tax payers fund it all .
Democrats think they can buy diversity.
They buy political positions, so why not.
a migrant relocation program disguised and funded as something else.
Is lobster an ethic food?
I wonder whose pocket those grants are going into. Remember the BLM scam?
My only question WHY?
Lewiston, Biddeford, Sanford…..yeah we need more black “tourism”.