Decision Maker for Local Tourism/Attractions?

I was wanting to focus on some local tourism hotspots nearby. Most of them don't have a website, but do have a presence online since they're situated along Route 66 in the US. I don't necessarily want to make them websites, but I do have a service I want to offer them.

I know not all of these are run by the state and may be nonprofit (a guess)... What approach is used to get paid by nonprofits or state-run tourist locations? I know they have to pay for lawn care and other contracted out stuff.

Any insight into this would help greatly!

If these are owned by the federal government, go through the General Services Administration.
(https://www.fbo.gov)

If these are state owned, go through the Procurement department for your state.
(Full list here: https://www.naspo.org/States)

If these are town/county owned, the local tourism board should point you in the right direction.

Just fair warning though, most levels of the government operate on fairly strict contracts, so a traditional sales pitch won't help you. If they don't already have an existing bid request for your service, your only hope is to contact the relevant politicians and ask for them to create one that matches what you're offering.

Stavro,

Thank you very much for the reply. It looks like an interesting road might be ahead of me. I appreciate the links, I'll be looking at them now. I just hope it's not too difficult to get paid by whatever entity owns and operates these attractions (if at all). Let's say I was offering 360 degree tour photos or SEO or something that would be focused on driving people to the attraction. I would reach out to the appropriate nonprofit or government entity, explain my services and how it would bring new people to the location (not the traditional sales pitch somehow...), and if interested there'd be a strict method in determining if they would give a contract?

Would the bid request be something like, several mowing companies bidding to get a contract to mow for the year at an attraction or something similar?

Nullium said:

I would reach out to the appropriate nonprofit or government entity, explain my services and how it would bring new people to the location (not the traditional sales pitch somehow...), and if interested there'd be a strict method in determining if they would give a contract?

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If it's a non-government nonprofit, you would approach them as any other business, sales pitch and all.

If it's government owned, you would search for an existing contract, place a bid, and wait for the acceptance/rejection. There's no negotiation or sales pitch, it's purely a bureaucratic calculation, the lowest suitable bid gets the contract.

Stavro,

Thank you, that's exactly what I was hoping to hear. I really appreciate the time you've taken to help clear some of my ignorance!