Last month, sev­er­al team mem­bers from of our Tourism & Hos­pi­tal­i­ty prac­tice group attend­ed the Explore Min­neso­ta Tourism (EMT) Con­fer­ence, held this year in Bloom­ing­ton. It was great to meet face-to-face with many of our cur­rent clients and part­ners (includ­ing a strong show­ing from the Duluth tourism indus­try!), catch up with indus­try col­leagues, as well...Read More

‘Tis the sea­son for grat­i­tude, of which we have plen­ty. Our clients and part­ners remain among the list of peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions we are grate­ful for, and we’re excit­ed to share that our ros­ter has expand­ed. Recent­ly, our Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­i­ty prac­tice group has had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to start part­ner­ing with these new clients. We’re...Read More

How many times have you watched or read a news sto­ry and laughed, teared up or were inspired to act or learn more? Chances are, that sto­ry fea­tured a per­son you con­nect­ed with. Or, in my case, some­times, a dog. When we start work­ing with a client, and through­out our part­ner­ship, we try to look for...Read More

With stay-at-home orders, trav­el bans and social dis­tanc­ing guide­lines in place, it’s no sur­prise that the tourism and event indus­try took a hit dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. As we’ve come to see over the last 18 months, the pro­fes­sion­als in this space are noth­ing if not resilient, cre­ative and hard­work­ing. And their efforts are pay­ing off,...Read More

Fea­tured Pho­to Cour­tesy Becky Church Photography As COVID restric­tions are lift­ed and peo­ple begin to gath­er again, we want­ed to reflect on the whirl­wind of the past 16 months – specif­i­cal­ly when it comes to events. What did we learn? How will this affect events mov­ing forward? We posed those ques­tions and more to three of...Read More

For near­ly a year, COVID-19 has changed the world, from the way we live, work and trav­el, to how we enter­tain and cel­e­brate events. And the biggest sport­ing and pop-cul­ture event of the year, Super Bowl LV, was no exception. In Sep­tem­ber 2020, Bell­mont Part­ners and our part­ner Cahill Com­mu­ni­ca­tions kicked off plan­ning with GENY­OUth, the...Read More

When Min­neso­ta start­ed shut­ting down in March due to COVID-19, clo­sures and can­cel­la­tions seemed to be com­ing in every minute, and the Loft Lit­er­ary Center’s sec­ond annu­al Word­play book fes­ti­val was in lim­bo. But instead of can­cel­ing or post­pon­ing the May 9 event, the orga­niz­ers real­ized that going vir­tu­al could be an option – as...Read More

As I enter my 14th year work­ing in the pub­lic rela­tions indus­try (my eighth with Bell­mont Part­ners), I took some time to reflect on why I do what I do, and why even after a decade and a half, I can’t imag­ine doing any­thing besides pub­lic relations. I’m a news junkie. Ever since ele­men­tary school, I...Read More

As we approach anoth­er sum­mer of events, we took time to reflect on our recent work help­ing pro­mote a soon-to-be icon­ic Min­neso­ta event, Word­play. We part­nered with The Loft Lit­er­ary Cen­ter to help tell the sto­ry of the inau­gur­al “par­ty for books” that brought more than 10,000 peo­ple down­town Min­neapo­lis through­out the week­end of May...Read More

Now that the 2018 Min­neso­ta State Fair is behind us, and we’ve rest­ed our feet and caught up on some sleep, we took time to reflect on 12 days filled with ban­ner media cov­er­age for our clients at the big event – Mid­west Dairy and Min­neso­ta Wine Country. Our team worked with media from every cor­ner...Read More