Great idea, in fact, I've been talking with foursquare about virtually the same thing (as @pg4sqday) ..... When thinking about Prince George for example, I can easily think of three different PG themed badges (Mr. PG themed in fact), that would be fun, and really would encourage tourism in PG .. or, at the least, encourage locals to see more of the city / surrounding areas. My idea, and what I have been trying to setup in my communications with foursquare, is pretty much exactly as you said - I want a Prince George page, similar to the Chicago page, or the Harvard Page, or the Mashable page. My thought was, setup something fun, get it working, get more people involved here in Prince George, and then contract Tourism PG. I would love a way to more comfortably interact with foursquare users, in particular, the users that haven't linked twitter ... currently, there isn't a good way to advertise foursquare related events, let alone Prince George / foursquare related events/promotions. From my replies, foursquare, at the moment, isn't able to support this. Foursquare is growing so quickly, at the moment, they are focused on dealing with 1M checkin's a day. I really hope in the future, and maybe even near future, this does come to be something. For the same reason Foursquare is probably slow to start, I think Tourism BC would be slow to get behind it - for the first fourquare related even in PG, we had 2 people attend. For the second event (yesterday) we had 8 (well, 6 or real, but 8 checkins total). That is a big improvement, it is still a VERY small user base. I really REALLY wanted a lot of people to show up yesterday, so I could relay that to foursquare, and have a little more "power" ... with 40ish total users, and probably 10-15 active users, and 8 people showing up to events, we just aren't a large enough user base yet in my opinion - and I got the sense, foursquare agrees. This is in part related to your problem #2, but not as much as other factors. There are A TON of iPhones in town, easily 100s, probably 1000s ... Not many of them are using foursquare. Foursquare, as a tech, as been slow to adopt, but hopefully that picks up. By the way, problem 1 is being dealt with pretty well by foursquare .... their "cheater" code, which still allows users to check in anywhere, but only allows them to compete for badges and mayorship's when the checkin's are "legit" ... so yeah, I think that problem is being minimized. The real problem is a version of #3, and as I said, it's that building of this kind of promotion, for this small number of users (when we aren't able to provide huge exposure, nor can we give $$$), that they can't do, no matter how much they may want to. The big picture is, they need to work on growing their core services still, so that as their platform continues to grow VERY RAPIDLY, they don't lose any uptime. It's not like twitter, where people will tweet later (and continue to tweet more about the down time). You should only checkin as you actually arrive at a venue, which really does require constantly being active to properly support your users. I think foursquare is doing a great job at growing their service .... I just hope to continue working with them, and hopefully things settle, PG gets a bunch more users, and active involvement in events, and we can go from there. Keep in touch, and if you hear anything back from Golden Raven, keep us all updated!!! Tyler pg4sqday@ThePiG.homeip.net