Article courtesy of Steve Bibler, Woodall's Campground Management
The upcoming (Dec. 17) release of a new Warner Brothers’ “Yogi Bear” movie offered an ideal backdrop for Leisure System Inc.’s (LSI) annual Symposium, held Nov. 811 at the Embassy Suites in Covington, Ky., a Cincinnati suburb located near the company’s home office in Milford, Ohio. The event attracted nearly 200 people from 65 of the 78 campgrounds affiliated with LSI’s Yogi Bear
Jellystone Park CampResort franchise for four days of professional seminars, briefings by LSI management, a trade show, social networking and the concluding awards ceremony that took on the motif of an Academy Awards-style presentation. Over 60 vendors took part in the trade show displaying their products and services. An outside display featured four new park models. The trade show also afforded franchisees an opportunity to purchase
their Yogi Bear brand merchandise from an offering of more than 300 items for the coming season. In addition, LSI franchisees could attend an all-day Americans with Disabilities Act compliance workshop the day before the symposium at which they were briefed on new ADA recreation guidelines passed this year as well other proposals that are likely to be passed in 2011. Buddy Rice was the keynote speaker on Continued Page 2