NMTD: Partnership Helps Save 830 Tourism Jobs In 2020
NMTD News:
SANTA FE A partnership between the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) and the New Mexico Small Business Development Center to offer business counseling services to tourism-related small businesses helped save 830 tourism jobs and secure more than $27 million in equity investments in 2020.
Since the launch of this partnership, tourism business counselors have conducted 11,290 documented contacts to tourism-related small businesses and provided 2,300 hours of direct business counseling to business owners.
The tourism business counseling program provided direct counseling assistance to 655 tourism-related small businesses in New Mexico. Of those tourism-related small businesses that received counseling assistance, 43 percent were minority-owned businesses, 25 percent were women-owned businesses and 24 percent were veteran-owned businesses.
The Daily Times staff
FARMINGTON A webinar covering the basics of a federal economic assistance program for arts organizations will be presented Jan. 26 by the New Mexico Economic Development Department.
The webinar, which takes place at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 26, will cover the fundamentals of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, which also is known as the Save Our Stages Act. The program is administered through the Small Business Administration.
The initiative was passed as part of the COVID-19 relief package. Theatrical producers, talent reps, venue promoters, live performing arts organizations, movie houses, cultural institutions or those who operate a live venue may be eligible to apply for the grant, according to a press release from the EDD.