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Seattle's Metropolitan Nature

September 6, 2007 at 3:34 PM | 0 Comments

The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau shouldn't have a tough time selling the Emerald City, at least since the sexy surgeons of Grey's Anatomy started crawling all over town. But just in case you've put off your visit, in one of the most tortured promotional schemes we've seen, the bureau reminds us that Seattle is "Metronatural".

Riiight. The guy behind the term says:

Branding a city like Seattle required a brand new word - so we created one.

The premise is that you get both outdoor tourism and great culture in Seattle. That much, at least, we can't dispute. With the newly-expanded Seattle Art Museum, its Olympic Sculpture Park and the renovated Seattle Aquarium, the city seems to be doing just fine without the hokey tag line.

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· Seattle CVB [Official Site]
· Seattle Art Museum [Official Site]
· Seattle Aquarium [Official Site]
· Seattle coverage [Jaunted]

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