Historic Sites Tour Reviews

We have achieved our short-term and intermediate goals, but have yet to see if we will achieve our long-term goals.

For short-term, our goal was to have highly attended Discover Groups, which we did. For each Discover Group held, we had more people attempting to register to be involved than we had space for. Some opted to join a waiting list, while others simply said thank you for the opportunity.

Our intermediate goal was to create excitement for the sites based on this project, while having additional people provide input and feedback on their experience. First, we found that after holding the Discover Groups, attendees have returned to the site for programs and events, which achieves our goal for that. Many of them often times brought additional people with them. Additionally, we have talked about this project with various stakeholders and visitors to our site and they have on occasion provided their own input and feedback. Our staff generally listens to what the attendees have had to say, then provide a note / message to our site supervisors as to what was said.

Our long-term goal is yet to be determined. We wanted to see if the buzz around our project and newly implemented ideas / suggestions would result in an increase in attendance to our site. While we have a small sample of that with our Test Results, we cannot make a determination at this point on whether or not that will hold up in the long-term. We believe we will be successful in achieving this goal, but will need to wait until the more of the suggestions have been implemented for a final verdict.