Patricia Regional Tourist Council, Dryden, ON

The Patricia Tourist Council is governed by a president, vice president and secretary-treasurer and board of 8 directors elected by the general membership of the association.
The activities of the association are exclusively related to promoting tourist visitation to the region. These marketing activities are primarily targeted at attracting visitors from the United States. More specifically, the association produces promotional literature on the region, attends sport and travel shows in the USA promoting the region, conducts advertising campaigns in the US market and has, with past assistance of Fed Nor, developed and maintains two extensive web sites.
Member lodges, camps, resorts, and outfitters primarily offer fishing and hunting vacations, however many are attempting to shift some of their marketing to "eco tourism" where there is more focus on the outdoor experience and less on the consumption of the natural resource. The primary catchment area for potential tourists are the states of the upper Midwestern USA. Those being Minnesota,Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana.