Novato Chamber of Commerce

Transient occupancy program: the city of Novato has an ongoing contract with the Novato Chamber of Commerce for a portion of the transient occupancy tax (tot). The Chamber uses the funds to provide the contracted services including: tourism promotion via advertising and other methods, maintain a visit Novato website, visitor center services, promote visitor spending in Novato and promote business travel to Novato.

Leadership program: an education program designed to identify and develop effective community leaders who will help create a spirit of cooperation for addressing community challenges. Participants enrolling in this program identify and adopt issues of common community concern and implement a plan to address the issues through teamwork and community outreach.

Membership, newsletters, seminars and events: a process of developing programs designed to promote recruitment and retention of business and individual members. Programs include member events, member to member discounts, focus discussion benefits, networking meetings and publication of referral directory. The Chamber has publications distributed to members which contain information and past events and updates on Chamber programs. The Chamber also sponsors many seminars and programs designed to benefit the business community.