Join us for our next Networking event on April 2nd!
April 2, 2025
6–8pm
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
33814 S Meridian Rd, Woodburn OR 97071
As part of our network, access free business-building and destination development resources created specifically for North Marion County businesses. Your participation includes a variety practical resources all available to you free-of-charge: detailed customer analytics reports through Placer AI, local business networking events, dedicated marketing campaigns, professional grant writing assistance, custom photography and videography services, plus ongoing business support. Join fellow North Marion County businesses in making our community an even more vibrant destination for visitors and locals.
Mission
Promote, educate, support, and grow North Marion County's tourism assets and overall local economic vitality through collaboration and stewardship.
Vision
Growing visitation and awareness of North Marion County while maintaining both a unique visitor experience and a sense of place for locals.
The Willamette Valley Visitors Association (WVVA) is a Regional Destination Management Organization focused on promoting responsible tourism and regional economic well-being that benefits residents and visitors alike. Our mission is to enhance the region’s vitality by cultivating authentic experiences to support local communities, ensuring the Willamette Valley's long-term resilience. We are dedicated to fostering the prosperity of the Willamette Valley as a welcoming and inclusive year-round destination.
Discover Mt. Angel is a non-profit organization formed in February of 2023. We welcome businesses and non-profits of all kinds to join us on our mission in promoting our members and community! We have monthly network meetings, will be hosting numerous events in the community throughout the year, and have great member benefit and sponsorship opportunities. Discover Mt. Angel shares a cross membership with Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce as well as Woodburn Chamber of Commerce. We all work together in our own unique ways to promote this amazing and one of a kind town that we call home.
The historic town of Aurora is your place in the country that's minutes from the city! A visit to Aurora is filled with everything you could want in a destination shopping experience; locally-made artisanal products, vineyards, wineries, and tastings, fresh flowers, and plants for the garden, local provisions, fine dining restaurants, plus all the amazing antique and vintage shopping that Aurora is famous for - we've got it all. It's the best of what Oregon has to offer in a setting meant for making memories.
Travel Salem proudly stands at the intersection of our people, place and history. With compassion, empathy, respect, openness and curiosity, we commit to being a leader in the ongoing work for equity and inclusion.
Through concerted effort and leading by example, we will effect positive change in our industry and our region, as we strive to be a welcoming and accessible place for all to enjoy meaningful and transformative experiences.
Travel Salem is committed to investing in education, partnerships and initiatives that include and give voice to all identities reflected by visitors and residents. We ask our stakeholders, community members and visitors to hold us accountable as we recognize the needs, traditions and experiences of all individuals living, working and traveling within our region.
The Oregon Tourism Commission, dba Travel Oregon, works to enhance visitors’ experiences by providing information, resources and trip planning tools that inspire travel and consistently convey the exceptional quality of Oregon. The commission aims to improve Oregonians’ quality of life by strengthening the economic impacts of the state’s $10.9 billion tourism industry that employs more than 100,000 Oregonians.
The Travel Oregon staff develops and implements a biennial strategic marketing plan which includes advertising and marketing, publication development, cooperative promotions, consumer fulfillment, public relations, international marketing, tourism product development, State Welcome Centers, research, and industry relations. Travel Oregon cooperates extensively with local communities, industry associations, government agencies, and private businesses in the implementation of its strategic plan.
We serve the public to protect, promote, and enhance a positive quality of life in Marion County. Our commitment to citizens and fellow employees is to top-quality service by community-focused professionals who demonstrate the following values:
Customer Service - We treat our customers and one another with courtesy, respect, dignity, fairness, and understanding. We work to make Marion County accessible and responsive to a wide range of individual and community needs and interests. We promote flexible, creative, solutions-oriented approaches to resolving customer problems and meeting customer needs.
Professionalism - We hire, train, and develop our employees to be knowledgeable and expert in their respective roles. We strive for the highest levels of accuracy and quality in carrying out our responsibilities to the public.
Integrity - We are honest, forthright, and ethical in our dealings with others and on behalf of the public trust. We follow-through on our commitments, and we hold one another and ourselves personally accountable for doing what we promise.
Stewardship - We seek to make the most efficient and effective use of public resources, and we work to continuously improve our services through collaboration, innovation, and competence. We strive to create and maintain a fair, transparent and open process of government that actively seeks citizen participation and recognizes the diverse and competing interests of all of the county's constituencies.
