136 - Getting Nashville Tourists to the Zoo :: Jim Bartoo

Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast · May 20, 2023 · 1h 2m

A Middle Tennessee Business Podcast

I’ve known Jim Bartoo going back to my early days in Nashville radio. I have always known him to be at the helm of making sure our Nashville Zoo is marketed to the best ability and always be in a good light in the community. Nashvillians have come to embrace the Zoo since it’s opening at its current location in 1997.

Jim’s biggest challenge is how to attract Nashville’s influx of tourists to the Zoo, all while certainly understanding the majority demographic being of the “woo girl” partier type.

I suggest something that downtown Nashville desperately…