About The International Tourism Council
(For more information about the T.I. Council... please visit www.ticouncil.com)
The Thousand Islands Regional Tourism Development Corporation (DBA: 1000 Islands International Tourism Council) is the direct successor of the Thousand Islands International Council. Together the two corporations have served the tourism promotion interests of the 1000 Islands international region since 1956. Since the beginning, the TI Council has been an international partnership.
The TI Council is a nonprofit corporation, whose largest financial supporters are the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority (TIBA), Federal Bridge Corporation Limited of Canada, and Jefferson County, New York. The Corporation contracts as the official Tourism Promotion Agency for Jefferson County and receives bed tax funds from the county. The TI Council works with the Ontario-based 1000 Islands - St. Lawrence Seaway Marketing Partnership to coordinate international marketing efforts.
Through an agreement for staff and services with the TIBA, the Corporation has five full-time staff members, five full-time seasonal staff members and on part-time year round staff member. Its overall budget for 2002 is just over one million dollars USD.
The mission of the TI Council is development, promotion, enhancement and retention of the tourism industry and its associated employment base within the territory encompassing generally the County of Jefferson in the State of New York, an area of approximately the same size in the southern portion of eastern Ontario, Canada abutting the St. Lawrence River and approximately opposite Jefferson County, but extending slightly farther easterly and westerly for the overall economic benefit of the region.