{"id":98631,"date":"2018-07-23T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/100-gift-cards-will-go-to-lucky-durango-visitors\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:40:49","slug":"100-gift-cards-will-go-to-lucky-durango-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/100-gift-cards-will-go-to-lucky-durango-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"$100 gift cards will go to lucky Durango visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=90f5b287-18c7-4dcb-8fd0-8adccaeeb743&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=90f5b287-18c7-4dcb-8fd0-8adccaeeb743&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=90f5b287-18c7-4dcb-8fd0-8adccaeeb743&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=90f5b287-18c7-4dcb-8fd0-8adccaeeb743&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1891\" height=\"1291\" alt=\"One lucky tourist shopping in downtown Durango will be awarded a $100 gift card each day through Aug. 31 as a thank you for visitors supporting Durango in the wake of the 416 Fire.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">One lucky tourist shopping in downtown Durango will be awarded a $100 gift card each day through Aug. 31 as a thank you for visitors supporting Durango in the wake of the 416 Fire.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For 40 days, beginning Monday, a lucky tourist in downtown Durango will be awarded a $100 gift card from one of the Business Improvement District\u2019s downtown ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>The gift card to a local retailer or restaurant will be a way to thank them for supporting Durango in the wake of the 416 Fire. The effort is sponsored by Bank of Colorado, which has invested $4,000 to purchase the 40 $100 gift cards from a range of downtown businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBank of Colorado has always been a passionate supporter of local businesses, so after the fire, we wanted to do something to help everyone,\u201d said Greg Behn, Bank of Colorado regional president. \u201cUnderwriting the cost of the gift cards supports our local businesses, so they\u2019re not out any sponsorship funding, plus it\u2019s a win-win when we can attract our guests to visit stores or restaurants in the downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durango.org\/discover-durango\/durango-business-improvement-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BID<\/a>\u2019s downtown ambassadors are \u201con the streets\u201d daily assisting Durango\u2019s visitors, said BID Executive Director Tim Walsworth. Ambassadors offer directions, suggestions and advice to help make people\u2019s visits to Durango as pleasant as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The gift-card giveaway will continue through Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubtleties such as this resonate with our visitors, and we ultimately reap benefits many times over when they remember their visit to Durango,\u201d said Frank Lockwood, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durango.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durango Area Tourism Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 per day will be awarded to downtown shoppers through Aug. 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[1671,950,1187],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-business-improvement-district","tag-durango","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98631"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}