North America Tourist Offices and Tourism Boards: Official Directory and Chauffeur Booking

Anyone organizing travel to the United States or Canada eventually lands on an official tourism site: a federal marketing body, a state or provincial office, or the convention and visitors bureau of a city. This page collects the main ones in one place, links each to its own website, and explains where a chauffeur booked through a trade account fits into a visitor's arrival.

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Which official tourism organizations serve visitors in North America?

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How a North American tourism office books for a visitor

A trade account lets an official tourism organization book rides on behalf of its guests and receive one monthly invoice. The office enters the guest name, flight and hotel in the online booker, sees the fixed fare for those exact addresses and vehicle before confirming, and receives one confirmation. The guest meets a chauffeur at arrivals and does not pay on the day. Visitors who book for themselves use the same booker. Our tourist offices overview explains the account in full.

National and federal organizations

Canadian provincial tourism organizations

US state tourism offices

US city convention and visitors bureaus

Canadian city tourism organizations

Cross-border and cabotage

Trips inside the USA use US-licensed operators, and cross-border trips follow local cabotage rules. Tell the desk the full route at booking, including both ends of a border crossing, so that the correct licensed operator is assigned on each side.

Distances worth knowing

Niagara Falls lies about 130 km (80 miles) from downtown Toronto, usually 90 minutes by road. Whistler is about 120 km (75 miles) north of Vancouver on Highway 99, typically two hours in good weather. Montréal and Québec City are about 250 km (155 miles) apart. These times assume normal traffic, so allow longer on winter weekends.

Who does what: national, state and city bodies

The three tiers solve different problems, and a chauffeur booking touches each one differently.

National organizations such as Brand USA and Destination Canada market the whole country abroad. They run campaigns, trade missions and media programmes, and they usually host groups that move through more than one city. For these groups the practical need is continuity: one confirmation, one point of contact and one invoice, even when the itinerary crosses a state line or a provincial border.

State and provincial offices promote a territory and its regions. Their visitors tend to be leisure travelers and incentive groups, and their staff field requests such as "how do I get from the airport to the resort?" A trade account lets the office answer with a booking rather than a leaflet.

City convention and visitors bureaus are the most operational. They host congress delegates, site-inspection planners, speakers and press, often with a hard start time at a convention center. Here the value of a named chauffeur with flight tracking is highest, because a late arrival affects a whole program.

Planning a delegation arrival across several North American cities

1. Send the desk the delegation list with arrival airports, flight numbers and hotels.
2. Choose vehicle classes. A group of eight to twelve usually suits an Executive Sprinter; individual guests suit sedans or a Luxury SUV.
3. Ask for alias bookings for any principal who should not be named on the arrivals board.
4. Add name-board meet-and-greet in the arrivals hall for guests who have never visited the city.
5. Confirm onward legs between cities as separate bookings so each local operator sees only its own leg.
6. Keep one invoice for the programme, addressed to the organizing office.

Getting a visiting group from the airport to a downtown hotel

The lowest-cost option is often the right one, and a front desk should know the trade-offs.

If a guest has one carry-on and a direct rail link runs to the hotel district, the train is the better choice. The chauffeur is worth booking where protocol, waiting time or a tight schedule outweighs the saving.

Visitor information centres and the hand-off

Staffed visitor centres at airports, ports and downtown squares hear the same requests every day. A trade account gives them a clean hand-off: the staff member opens the booker, enters the guest details and the exact fixed fare appears before anything is confirmed. Because the office is the account holder, the guest does not need a payment card on the day.

Related pages

Browse the North America directory, or go to the city pages for New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Vancouver and Niagara Falls. Tourism offices often combine visitors with conference transportation, cruise transfers and the travel trade page.

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