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Contact: Cassie Stetkiewicz Katrina White
Partnership Manager Rhode Island Tourism Division
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cassies@tourismcares.org kwhite@riedc.com

Tourism Cares and Tour Rhode Island Help Save Our Sites

Canton, Mass. (May 19, 2010)- Tourism Cares, the travel industry charity dedicated to preserving the travel experience for future generations has partnered with Tour Rhode Island to raise $1,000 as part of the Tourism Cares Save Our Sites fundraising initiative. The funds were raised during Tour Rhode Island’s annual There’s No Place Like Home program. The Save Our Sites program gave the travellers an opportunity to make donations while on tour to give back to preserve and enhance natural, historic and cultural sites around the world that are important to save for future generations.

Tour Rhode Island, There’s No Place Like Home, is a grass roots program planned by tourism industry volunteers that encourages Rhode Islanders to see their state as a visitor would. Now in its 8th year, the program strives to show the value of tourism to Rhode Island and create ambassadorship within the residents as they explore the wonders of their own backyard.

“On a personal level, I believe we learn from history, and we learn better when we experience it,” said Katrina White, Rhode Island Tourism. “There’s something about seeing what others did, smelling the things they smelled and touching the things they touched that reaches into your soul, that helps us understand. We owe it to our children to make sure they have the same opportunity to learn and be moved, to understand themselves and others, and make the world better for it.”
This is the second year Tour Rhode Island has engaged Rhode Islanders in the Save Our Sites program. Passengers on tour were asked to make donations, as little as the change in their pockets and they responded generously.

“The sights of Rhode Island are classic examples of the places we all have to protect so that our children and grandchildren can enjoy what we have today. The Save Our Sites program on the Tour Rhode Island day was a perfect way to drive that message home,” said Bruce Beckham, Executive Director of Tourism Cares which is based in nearby Canton, Massachusetts.
Tourism Cares is a 501c(3) non-profit public charity that benefits society by preserving the travel experience for future generations by awarding grants to natural, cultural and historic sites worldwide; by presenting academic and service-learning scholarships to students of hospitality and tourism; and by organizing volunteer efforts to restore tourism-related sites in need of care and rejuvenation. For additional information about Tourism Cares, visit www.tourismcares.org.

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