Gloucester is all over the news this week and there is more to come. 

Gloucester and Rockport Beaches hit Boston.com's TOP 25 Perfect Beaches this weekend.  Good Harbor and Wingaersheek and Front Beach in Rockport.  Too bad the parking situation at Good Harbor wasn't handled with a little more understanding towards those hot, hungry tourists just dying to spend money in Gloucester.  Hope that doesn't turn them off forever.

Besides taking up a lot of our parking spaces, this movie is bringing in the press.  Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Go Magazine, Celebrity News and more are all talking Gloucester, Gloucester, Gloucester.  Atlantis Oceanfront Inn, Bass Rocks Ocean Inn, Rockport Inn and Suites, Alchemy and the Gloucester House have all been mentioned by name.  Ed Begley Jr. has been posting very nice compliments and pictures on his website (seen by thousands). 

Boston Globe is planning a story in part on Gloucester tourism that will run in the next couple of weeks. 

We had two visitors today totally out of the blue.  One, a travel writer, dusting off an old story in a travel book about Gloucester.  She had seen something about us in a magazine put out by the Globe this weekend (not the movie) and thought it was time to write about Gloucester again.  Some places mentioned; Charles Hovey House, Inn at Babson Court, Passports, Franklins, Duckworth's, Lee's, Sugar Magnolia's, Two Sisters, Virgilio's, Whale Watches, Beauport.  We also turned her on to the Schooner Lannon and Hammond Castle.  Rockport's getting some mentions too, Lobster Pool, Roy Moore, and the Coffee Shop.  Our second visitor was a scout for another MOVIE.  Don't know anything more about it but I sent them on to a better location (Ocean View Inn).

We are starting to get some interest and it is up to us to keep it going.  When you are contacted by a travel writer or reporter, be positive!  Give them information on what the tourists would like to see and do.  What do we have to offer that others do not.  Add little tidbits that aren't the norm.  For example, does everyone know a new shop opened on Main St. this weekend that sells beach glass jewelry?  Tiny Island Beach Glass is also offering something different.  For the kids, you get a pail, shovel and treasure map of Cape Ann to find your own special beach glass and they will make it into a piece of jewelry so you can forever remember your vacation here in Gloucester.  What a great and unique way to spend an ocean vacation.