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SLC Caterer Launches Welcome Center for Olympics Visitors

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Monday, August 10, 2015   

SALT LAKE CITY - A privately-sponsored U.S. Welcome Pavilion designed to promote America's people, places and culture will be open to the public at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Maxine Turner, a caterer from Salt Lake City who founded the pavilion, says the United States is one of just a few countries that does not have a government-funded welcome center.

"It's an economic development and trade opportunity," says Turner. "It is certainly tourism promotion and – very important to me – it's to convey the goodwill of the American people on the global stage."

Turner says she noticed the need for a welcome center while catering at previous Olympic games. She explains the governments of many countries fund welcome centers at the Olympics and other big time events, but the U.S. leaves promotional efforts to the private sector.

She says the U.S. Welcome Pavilion, a nonprofit venture, is funded in part through corporate sponsorship.

Turner says another goal is to provide an educational center where U.S.-based companies and public sector organizations can highlight both business and recreational opportunities to the eight million people expected at the Rio Summer Games a year from now.

Utah will be well represented, adds Turner.

"Yes, we have raised over $1 million for our state to have a presence at the pavilion," she says.

Turner is hopeful Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's role as Chair of the National Governors Association will prompt more states to support the U.S. Welcome Pavilion. She says Utah's five national parks will be also be promoted in Rio.


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