WOODBURY, MN (WNN) – Destination: Woodbury is the new Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for Woodbury.
Its new website, DestinationWoodbury.com, is officially launching on April 5, 2025, at the Woodbury Community Expo.
If you head over to the Destination: Woodbury’s booth at the Expo, you will get a live demo of the new website.
It will be a standalone website, totally separate from the City of Woodbury and other city department websites.
“The mission is to attract visitors and enhance the visitor experience once in Woodbury – places to eat, things to do, where to shop and support local businesses who serve visitors,” explains Eric Satre, Destination: Woodbury’s Destination Marketing Manager. “The website is going to be the heartbeat and core of everything we do.”
With his live demo of the website on April 5, Satre hopes to show residents how the website is visually appealing, mobile-friendly and interactive. He said, “Residents will have an opportunity to use the website as a resource to refer to friends and families from out-of-town, recommending local hotels, restaurants and things to do, as well as venue resources for planning a wedding or meeting at Central Park.”
Mayor Anne Burt has been championing the need of a specific organization like “Destination: Woodbury” for some years.
In early 2023, the city set up a special task force to develop an initial strategic plan consisting of members representing local nonprofits, arts and culture, hotel/hospitality industry, the mayor and other city staff to consider what Woodbury’s DMO would look like. “Woodbury is the state’s 8th largest city. The economic hub of the east metro with parks, trails, entertainment, sports, restaurants, hotels and a myriad of services that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. Our new destination marketing organization, ‘Destination: Woodbury’, will help promote all the great things that Woodbury has to offer,” states Mayor Burt.
Destination: Woodbury is geared towards drawing visitor awareness including recommending group-friendly restaurants to tournament groups for the purpose of providing names of restaurants that can handle larger groups.
The website will serve as a gateway to local business websites. Especially focusing on hotels DestinationWoodbury.com will connect users to the hotel profile pages so they can click on the hotel website and book their room.
Along with hotels, shopping, restaurants, performing arts and theatres, calendar of events, parks, playgrounds, attractions, historic sites plus sites for events like weddings, meetings and conventions will eventually be included on the website.
Woodbury attracts visitors from nearby cities and states for its many amenities.
Shopping is a big attraction as popular national and local stores have a footprint in Woodbury. Many national stores and restaurants look to Woodbury as a desirable “first city in Minnesota” to locate their business.
Destination: Woodbury hopes to highlight Woodbury’s prime location encouraging Metro Area visitors to stay, eat and recreate.
Woodbury Community Expo
Saturday: April 5, 2025
Time: 10am to 3 pm
Location: Woodbury High School
2665 Woodlane Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125
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