Articles written by Carla Hunsley


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  • Montana's "Trail To The Stars" Wins Marketing Campaign Of The Year Award

    Carla Hunsley|May 10, 2023

    Montana's "Trail to the Stars" has been awarded the Marketing Campaign of the Year award for its outstanding tourism-related marketing campaign executed within the past calendar year. The project is a collaboration among central Montana, southeast Montana, and Montana's Missouri River Country along with Montana State Parks to promote and celebrate the region's wide-open dark skies, which offer some of the most stunning stargazing experiences in the world. The "Trail to the Stars" project include...

  • Championship Encourages Counties And Tribes To Compete For The Highest Increase In Self-Response Rates To The 2020 Census

    Carla Hunsley|Sep 23, 2020

    Helena, MT - The Montana Department of Commerce has launched the 2020 Census State Championship to encourage counties and tribes in Montana to compete for the highest increase in self-response rates to the 2020 Census from now until Sept. 30. With only 15 days left in the 2020 Census count, the Commerce Department and the Montana Complete Count Committee are urging every Montana resident to respond to the 2020 Census before the shortened deadline of Sept. 30. “This is the final countdown for the 2020 Census,” said Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney, of Mon...

  • Montana’s Missouri River Country Cooperative Marketing Funds

    Carla Hunsley|Dec 5, 2012

    For FY 12/13 Missouri River Country budgeted $7,000 in Cooperative Marketing, which is designed to allow Missouri River Country to promote an area or event on a cooperative basis with a nonprofit tourism-related organization. The intent of this program is to encourage the development of new or expanded marketing projects outside the local community, thereby increasing the tourism travel to the region and extending the traveler’s stay in Missouri River Country. The cooperative marketing funds are a 50/50 split between Missouri River Country a...