Little Falls Chamber of Commerce Introduces ‘Passport’ Scavenger Hunt

The Little Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has introduced its Chamber Passport program, a new initiative to drive more people to businesses in the Little Falls community.

“Basically, it’s a promotion started by the Community Promotions Committee of the Chamber,” said Purva Watten, Little Falls Chamber Executive Director. “The intent of this is to provide more visibility and exposure to our businesses.”

Anyone can walk into any participating business and ask for a passport. While there, patrons can ask for stickers to fill out their passports and complete a special scavenger hunt.

“The hope is to basically generate more foot traffic by handing out stickers at [each] of the locations,” explained Watten. “So if you visit the location, you get a sticker. But don’t just visit to get a sticker—have a chat with them, find out what they are doing. Find out what they’re all about, because you might find something new. Be a tourist in your own town, why not?”

There are 21 businesses and organizations participating in the initiative. One of those is Great River Arts, a nonprofit that hopes the passport program will bring more people to see and experience their work.

“Working with the Chamber is a wonderful opportunity for us,” said Great River Arts Executive Director Erika Powers. “They put on these larger community wide programs and it helps bring in new people to our organization, people that may never have come in before. And it also gets some people to come back who’ve attended other events.”

Participants must drop off their completed passports at the Little Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, where three names will be drawn to win up to $300 in Chamber cash that can be used at participating businesses.

“The promotion is going to be running all the way up until October 31, Halloween,” Watten added. “So if you guys are here downtown trick-or-treating, great time to do this. And then you basically have up until November 6 to turn this in. Once these are turned in on November 15, we will be making an announcement of our winners.”

Those winners will be announced on the Little Falls Chamber Facebook page.