National
Agritourism
Professionals
Association
[Recipient Name]
[Address]
[City, ST ZIP Code]
NAPA’s Goals
Networking through successful
communications…promoting
information-sharing across the US and
Canada by professional service
providers who support the agritourism
industry & its direct farm marketers;
Accepting & promoting the NAPA
vision… committed members who
provide tools & resources to enable
farmers to solve regulatory challenges &
practice successful marketing methods;
organizations…fostering collaboration,
partnerships & relationships between
government agencies & farm groups; &
.Adding committed supporters…
asking policy-makers, agritourism farms
and direct farm markets to join &
support rural tourism through NAPA.
[Address, City, ST ZIP Code]
Partnering with other professional
www.NAPA-USandCanada.com
Networking for new ideas and
solutions to regulatory and
operational challenges to
agritourism farms and direct farm
marketers in the United States and
Canada.
Vision Statement
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Name _________________________________
NAPA will create sustainable
prosperity for agritourism venues
through commitment to applicable
research, current information, and
personal mentoring.
Mission Statement
NAPA Is Your MIssion
The National Agritourism Professionals Association
is a non-profit membership organization which
provides assistance to agritourism enterprises, direct
farm marketers and other visitor-based agricultural
venues to resolve regulatory or policy-based
challenges to start-up or ongoing success.
These issues are often on the local level. Examples
include zoning ordinances, building permits, taxes,
farm safety, liability and insurance and food safety –
roadblocks which threaten to close a successful
agritourism venue and block the economy needed to
sustain the farm as well as educate visitors who are
interested in the farm, its production and resources.
NAPA members are from varied backgrounds:
extension staff, government, farms, tourism agencies,
law, insurance - all network with their peers to share
their knowledge with farmers who are facing
problems sustaining their farms & educating visitors.
Join NAPA. Help a goat dairy continue to sell
delicious cheese and have popular ‘farm to fork’
dinners. Help a farmer and the building inspector
find a way to permit building a facility for educational
and information sessions and not pay more taxes.
NAPA will provide resources,
consultation and communication
avenues for agritourism venues in
the United States and Canada.
Jane Eckert of Eckert AgriMarketing notes, “I think it’s great
that our industry has matured to a
point where an organization like this
is both needed and viable.”
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2015 Dues Registration
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Payable by check to “NAPA”
$100 ___ Dues January-December
Pay Dues by December 12
and
Receive a $20.00 Discount on 2015
NAPA Conference Registration
Sunday, February 1
Inn at Opryland, Nashville TN
$115.00 Lodging – Pay thru NAPA
Return Membership Application To:
NAPA Contact Information
Martha Glass, Acting Exec. Director
108 Forest Hills Court
Cary NC 27511
www.NAPA-USandCANADA.com
martha.glass@napa-usandcanada.com
Toll Free: 1-855-517-1617