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Visit St. Pete/Clearwater's Accommodations Hurricane Preparedness Tool Kit includes useful resources to help our accommodation partners be better prepared in the event of a weather related emergency. Please use the resources, information and expert advice presented below as general guidelines that will give you the information you need to create an Emergency Action Plan for your tourism-related business.

It's also important to note that beginning this hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center will provide greater lead time in tropical cyclone watches and warnings. As a result of advances in observational capabilities, tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings for threatened coastal areas will be issued 12 hours earlier than in previous years. To learn more about these changes and how they could impact your plans, click here.

1. Our Hurricane Preparedness Workshop video, which outlines the latest and best practices for disaster response and recovery, includes presentations by experts from Pinellas County Emergency Management, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, the National Weather Service and other destinations around the state outline. To see the 2-hour 20-minute presentation, click here. (Note: Requires Real Media Player). Download RealPlayer.

2. A list of key emergency contacts is downloadable here.

3. The CVB's complete, 56-page Crisis Communication Plan can be found here.

4. Accommodation partners have the ability to update their room availability online via an Internet portal before, during and after a named storm at http://data.visitstpeteclearwater.com. A unique login and password is needed for updating an accommodations' inventory. Your property's login information is the same as that used to update your property listings. If you have not received your login information, please contact Dick Roesler at Visit St. Pete/Clearwater (Dick@VisitSPC.com) for your property's login information.

5. For instructions on how accommodation partners can update their room availability online during a named storm situation, please click click here.