Tremendous Support from Best Western Grant Creek Inn and El Western Cabins & Lodges

Travelers for Open Land is clearly a program that depends upon engaged and supportive business partners, and nothing demonstrates evidence of that fact more forcefully than the success of the program at the Best Western Grant Creek Inn in Missoula and the El Western Cabins and Lodge in Ennis.

Kris and John Hauck, owners of the El Western, verbally mention the opportunity to guests at check-in to make a $1, $5, or $10 contribution to Travelers for Open Land. On the bottom of the El Western folio is a printed opportunity that mirrors the short conversation. Kris reports the process is quick, simple and productive: guests appreciate the program and the opportunity. El Western guests have responded in overwhelmingly positive fashion, and El Western has forwarded close to $600 in contributions since Travelers for Open Land was launched in June of this year.

At the Best Western Grant Creek Inn in Missoula, manager Lucy Weeder and the front desk staff simply and succinctly ask the guest if they would like to make a one dollar contribution to Travelers for Open Land. Again, the process is quick, simple and successful. The Best Western Grant Creek Inn has forwarded over $350 in Travelers contributions since the program was launched.

Ideally, these two examples can be replicated throughout the 120 business properties involved in the Travelers for Open Land program.