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The Yuma Visitors Bureau is always happy to assist members of print and broadcast media, either on assignment or pitching an idea with a Yuma angle. Media Relations Specialist Ann Walker can suggest itineraries and facilitate visits, or provide you with the inspired details to help nail down an assignment.  We pride ourselves on always going "above and beyond."

You can download background and "use any time" undated materials from our media kit below; current press releases appear "most recent first" at left.  Click on the tab above marked photos and videos to browse selected galleries -- lots more photos (and high-resolution versions) are available on request.

YVB periodically hosts group and individual press trips, and is glad to partner with other Arizona or California DMOs to coordinate a visit to several regions. For more information, please call Ann at 928-376-0100 or email ann@visityuma.com. Thanks for your interest in the Yuma area!

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Fast facts about Yuma 2013

Fast Facts About YVB 2013

Yuma history narrative 2013

Yuma history timeline 2013

Signature Yuma events for 2012-13

Wetlands restoration facts & figures 2013

Sunbelievable: Yuma marks 365 bright days in a row

Agritourism growing draw - 2013 tour dates

Media & Press

MAY 8 2012

Rail-riding photographer has Yuma in viewfinder

 


YUMA, ARIZONA - A fine-art and commercial photographer from rural Illinois will have Yuma in her viewfinder during a nationwide rail journey that focuses on "shooting the West."

Billed as "a photography, social media, and travel adventure," the America By Rail project conceived by Jordana Wright launched from Chicago on April 28 and will follow the rails through historic locations like New Orleans, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore. before returning to Chicago 45 days later.
In eight major cities, celebrity photographers from the Google+ Network will join in to lead local "photowalks" that are free and open to the photo-appreciative public, while in other destinations like Yuma, participation will be encouraged through daily blog posts, Google+ updates and Google Hangouts.
 
Though Jordana Wright Photography is based in tiny Paris, Illinois, it has an outsized presence on line, based on "a reputation for consistently generating diverse, high-quality content," which has yielded more than 49,000 active followers across the Google+ community.
 
Wright is scheduled to arrive in Yuma at 11:49 p.m. Sunday (May 13) and depart at 11:49 p.m. Tuesday (May 15). She'll be hosted here by Hilton Garden Inn Pivot Point, and plans to shoot local sights such as historic downtown, the Yuma Territorial Prison, Yuma Quartermaster Depot and the Imperial Sand Dunes National Recreation Area.
 
To find out more - or to hang out or meet up - follow Jordana Wright Photography on Google+, on Facebook or visit http://www.jordanawright.com/americabyrail.html.  You can reach Wright via email to jordanawright@gmail.com or call/text 217-686-4366. Click here to download a media kit about the America by Rail Shooting the West project.


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Yuma Visitors Bureau markets the Yuma area within the travel and tourism industry and to the general public.  Don't forget that though Arizona's official "birthday" has passed, our bold Centennial offer still stands: guests at participating Yuma hotels eat free every day the sun doesn't shine - through July 31 of this year!
 
Get more info & download a visitors guide at visityuma.com. A longtime favorite with sun-seeking snowbirds, Yuma's population nearly doubles in the winter months, thanks to more than 23,000 spots in RV parks and resorts. The community also offers nearly 4,000 hotel rooms, conference and meeting facilities, and three casinos. For more details about Yuma's year-round attractions, special events - and the rarely "cloudy with a chance of tacos" forecast* - visit www.visityuma.com or call 800-293-0071.


Sent as a courtesy by:
Ann Walker, 928-376-0100 (office), 928-210-9044 (cell), ann@visityuma.com
Visitor Information Center: 1-800-293-0071, www.visityuma.com

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