State marketing internet website

§ 154. State marketing internet website. 1. The department shall\nmaintain an internet website designed to facilitate the marketing\npurposes in this article.\n 2. The internet website shall contain a design that facilitates the\npromotional objectives required by article five-a of this chapter and\nthis article.\n 3. The internet website shall also contain an area accessible, free of\ncharge, to tourism promotion agencies, conventions and business bureaus,\nlocal governments, and any private, not-for-profit or commercial\nbusiness domiciled in New York state, which contains directly, or\nmaintains active links to, the data, including but not limited to:\n (a) labor statistics maintained by the New York state department of\nlabor;\n (b) tax receipt data maintained by the New York state department of\ntaxation and finance;\n (c) a monthly summary of tourism industry statistics maintained by a\nnational tourism association known as the Tourism Industry Association,\nInc.;\n (d) all reports and data required to be produced and maintained by\nthis section; and\n (e) any other data deemed appropriate.\n 4. The department shall cause to be produced annually an independent\nstudy analyzing the effectiveness of the internet website. The\ndepartment shall submit the study in accordance with the provisions of\nsubdivision three of section one hundred fifty-one of this article.\n