Illinois Administrative Code › Title 14 - COMMERCE › Part 550 - LOCAL TOURISM AND CONVENTION BUREAU PROGRAM › Section 550.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" - means Section 605-705(a) of the Civil Administrative
				Code of Illinois [20 ILCS
				605/605-705(a) ] that establishes a
				grant program to be referred to as the Local Tourism and Convention Bureau
				Program.
"Applicant" - means a not-for-profit organization or unit of
				local government that meets the eligibility requirements.
"Application" - means the completed standardized "Grant
				Application Form", plus the program specific addendum.
"Bureau" - means a certified local tourism and convention
				bureau.
"Certification/Re-certification" - means the written request
				submitted by an applicant requesting to be a certified local tourism and
				convention bureau and requesting grant funds authorized by the Act.
"Chief Executive Officer" - means a full-time (at least 35
				hours per week), paid professional of a bureau authorized and qualified to
				manage and implement a bureau's marketing plan and fulfill all requirements
				under an LTCB grant whose sole function shall be to promote tourism development
				within the bureau's designated service area.
"Commodities" - means supplies and materials, including
				premiums, office products, equipment and printing.
"Department" - means the Department of Commerce and Economic
				Opportunity.
"Department Logo" - means a form of recognition as stipulated
				and supplied by the Department to identify a promotional project/product as
				being produced in whole or in part through grant funds from the
				Department.
"Director" - means the Director of the Department of Commerce
				and Economic Opportunity.
"Feasibility Study" - means a study to determine if a tourism
				promotional project will result in an increase in overnight stays and visitor
				travel and if the promotional project is capable of being successfully
				completed.
"Fiscal Year" - means each period of July 1 through June 30,
				the fiscal year of the State of Illinois.
"Fiscal Year Marketing Plan" - means the planned program of
				tourism promotional activities for the fiscal year, including goals,
				objectives, strategies, anticipated results, and performance measures.
"Grant Agreement" - means the executed agreement between the
				grantee and the Department defining their respective rights and obligations
				with regard to the awarding of grant funds.
"Grantee" - means a bureau receiving LTCB Program funds from
				the Department for purposes of promoting tourism in a designated geographic
				area of the State.
"Illinois Bureau of Tourism" or "IBOT" - means the division of
				the Department that has statutory authority to establish, develop, and
				implement a grant program for local tourism and convention bureaus.
"In-Kind Contributions" - means donated services, donated
				space, donated equipment, services of volunteers, services in lieu of cash or
				any non-monetary item.
"Market Research" - means to research potential economic impact
				on the grantee's service area, including but not limited to researching
				recruitment of present and future target markets, such as leisure and business
				travelers and visitor distribution.
"Matching Funds" - means that portion of the Project Budget
				Plan that is required to be provided by the grantee.
"Municipality" - means "municipality" as defined in Section
				1-1-2(1) of the Illinois Municipal Code [65 ILCS 5/1-1 -2(1)].
"Pass-Through Funds" - means funds received by a bureau from a
				local entity within its designated geographic service area that are designated
				for payment of any expenses incurred without proportionate value, either
				programmatically or financially, being added by the bureau.
"Population Served" - means the population of the bureau's
				designated service area according to the latest certified census
				figures.
"Premium Items" - means tourism promotional items purchased
				with grant funds and distributed or disseminated at no cost for tourism
				promotional purposes, including but not limited to tee-shirts, pins, hats,
				travel packages, and award plaques.
"Program" - means the Local Tourism and Convention Bureau
				(LTCB) Program.
"Project Budget Plan" - means an itemized budget category
				breakdown of planned grant and match expenditures associated with the
				activities described in the Fiscal Year Marketing Plan.
"Promotional Projects" - means Department approved tourism
				promotional activities that are designed to encourage tourism as described in
				the Fiscal Year Marketing Plan.
"Service Area" - means a designated geographic area for which
				the bureau is certified to provide tourism promotional services.
"Services" - means the furnishing of labor by a vendor not
				involving the delivery of a tangible product other than accompanying reports,
				designs, logos, or similar artistic services.
"Sponsorship" - means a financial contribution made by a bureau
				to another entity for the purpose of attracting or retaining an event that will
				generate tourism in the designated service area.
"Tourism" - means travel by either State residents or
				out-of-state visitors traveling away from home overnight in paid accommodations
				or on day trips to places 50 miles or more from the visitor's home.
"Travel/Trade Show" - means an exhibit/marketplace of
				travel-related products and/or services.
"Unit of Local Government" - means a county, municipality, or
				township having authority to enact laws and ordinances, administer laws and
				ordinances, and raise taxes or spend public funds.