Pittsburgh and Its Countryside Great Gas Giveaway Kicks off National Tourism Week

05-14-2008

PITTSBURGH – Pack the kids, the car and the cooler! VisitPittsburgh, GetGo and Giant Eagle have teamed up just in time for summer vacation and much-needed savings at the pump.  With the Pittsburgh and Its Countryside Great Gas Giveaway, visitors earn a $10 GetGo gift card for every hotel night booked through VisitPittsburgh.  For example, stay in Pittsburgh and Its Countryside for four nights and get $40 in free GetGo gift cards.

            “The Great Gas Giveaway provides a great incentive for visitors to experience the area at a great savings. And it comes at a perfect time,” says Craig Davis, vice president of sales and marketing for VisitPittsburgh. “The travel season is just beginning and May 10-18 marks the 25^th Annual National Tourism Week.”

            The Great Gas Giveaway offer is available for rooms purchased and occupied between Memorial Day Weekend (May 23, 2008) and Labor Day (Sept. 1, 2008). Hotel rooms must be purchased through VisitPittsburgh, either by calling 1-877-LOVE PGH (1-877-568-3744) or on www.visitpittsburgh.com. Only rooms reserved at participating hotels are eligible for the $10 GetGo gift cards. GetGo gift cards and a list of locations are provided upon hotel check out.

There are currently 140 GetGo stores located throughout western Pennsylvania and Ohio, with selected locations in Maryland and West Virginia. “It’s Pittsburgh’s 250^th anniversary and there are endless things to see and do. All you have to do is get to Pittsburgh and Its Countryside. We’ll get you home, thanks to this free gas promotion,” said Davis.

            The Great Gas Giveaway will be promoted throughout VisitPittsburgh’s summerlong advertising campaign. Details of the promotion will be included in VisitPittsburgh’s direct mail campaign that is distributed to 100,000 households throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Canada. Beginning this week, the promotion will also be featured in newspaper advertisements in 10 cities throughout the region – including Toronto, Harrisburg, Erie, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, to name a few. In addition, the Great Gas Giveaway will be promoted via www.visitpittsburgh.com, through e-blasts to registered subscribers, in magazines and on radio.

The GetGo from Giant Eagle fuel station and convenience store brand allows Giant Eagle to redefine the convenience store shopping experience by bringing the same level of fresh, high-quality and delicious food and unmatched customer service associated with Giant Eagle supermarkets to the convenient GetGo setting. 

Giant Eagle Inc., ranked 33 on Forbes magazine’s largest private corporations list and recipient of Grocery Headquarters’ 2007 Retailer of the Year Award and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Retail Partner of the Year Award, is one of the nation’s largest food retailers and food distributors with approximately $7.1 billion in annual sales.  Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle has grown to be the number one supermarket retailer in the region with 158 corporate and 61 independently owned and operated supermarkets in addition to 140 fuel and convenience stores throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, north central West Virginia and Maryland. 

 

 

VisitPittsburgh is the official tourism marketing and promotion agency of the Pittsburgh region. It is dedicated to generating convention, trade show and leisure travel business for the Pittsburgh region.

 

 

 

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