As the tourism marketing agency for the city of aberdeen, our mission is to enhance the economic well-being of the aberdeen region by increasing the amount of visitor and meeting activity that occurs in the area.

Our goals are:- to increase the number of visitors to aberdeen with an emphasis on overnight visitors. - to promote the image of aberdeen. - to promote rural tourism in northeast south dakota. - to act as a resource to support the aberdeen area's facilities, attractions, activities and events. - assist in the promotion of special events in the aberdeen region. During 2014, aberdeen, sd hosted over 100 conventions, group and familiarization tours, meetings, sporting and special events. As a result of our marketing efforts tens of thousands of delegates and visitors came to the aberdeen area. We staff and maintain two visitor centers where we provide information about the community, our facilities, attractions and events. The visitor center also provides regional and state-wide information about sd. The visitor centers serviced guests from 49 states, 12 canadian provinces and 4 foreign countries. We print several publications that are distributed to entice visitors to the area and maintain four comprehensive websites, two geared to the leisure tourist and two geared to the hunting and fishing sportsman. We coordinate volunteer assistance (70+ volunteers with 1,875 hours), fulfill requests (7,447 mailed) for visitor information, bid conventions, market outdoor recreation opportunities and host hospitality rooms for sporting events and conventions.