Last year, lifeguards interviewed more than 3,000 tourists to gauge their level of education and awareness. Through that process, tourism officials now better know what areas to target.
“A lot of folks from Louisiana, Atlanta area, Tennessee and of course, northern Alabama but there’s a spread from all over the country coming here,” said Shepard.
The challenge for tourism officials is how to create partnerships outside the area to get the message across and to then continuously reinforce the message once they’re here. Highway message boards would be one way to do that. “One of the ideas I liked a lot was the bridges across the canal. Everybody that comes to Gulf Shores or Orange Beach has to cross those bridges and that’s a wonderful place to put messaging to get our point across and help educate our visitors before they hit the beaches,” explained Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency director, Tom Tyler.
The messaging is so important because of the amount of tourist turnover during the peak season. Tourism officials are already flying banners over the beach a couple time a week and hope to increase that number. Another encouraging statistic is that more than 34,000 people opted in on the BEach SAFE app over the last year.
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