Many State Parks in the United States do an excellent job of public relations and give out important information to tourists and tourist's centers. Most are involved heavily with the local Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Association. This is because by working with these groups they can alert more people of the State Park and its beauty, trails and sights and increase tourism, which is wonderful for local businesses and that means more jobs in the area and more monetary flows into the communities.
Public Relations for State Parks is hardly a walk in the park however as there is also a balance between nature and the business community and therefore at times they maybe at odds as more and more people come to visit it means more and more growth, the need for more or larger roads in the park and more camp grounds too. All this causes issues, but the local community knows it makes its money from the tourists, so give us all you got!
Public relations for state parks is not an easy job and sometimes there is more turnover than is necessary due to pure politics. The trick is to develop goals and objectives early on for the state park and to ensure by-in to these goals and objectives or mission statement with the local business community. A public relations officer for a state park has one of the toughest jobs in our nation's park system and the dynamics that they are involved with are indeed interrelated to nearly every aspect of the local community. Please consider all this in 2006.
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