{"id":103783,"date":"2026-02-03T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103783\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:24:06","slug":"pa-tourism-offices-winter-hotline-voiced-by-regional-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103783\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Tourism Office’s winter hotline voiced by regional accents"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Tourism Office wants youse and yinz to consider getting out of the house this winter and checking out some of the state\u2019s attractions.\n<\/p>\n

It is doing so over the phone with regional accents, so you will understand.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYo dere. Thanks for cawlling the Visit PA Snow Day hawtline,\u201d a pre-recorded Pittsburgh voice greets callers. \u201cWhether you want outdowr stuff or cewzy indowr hangs, we\u2019ll shew you where to gew all over the state.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

Visit PA has launched a snow day telephone hotline for its winter tourism campaign, 1-877-SNWFUN1 (769-3861). Callers navigate a prerecorded phone menu voiced by actors speaking in classic Pittsburgh and Philadelphia accents.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscahver deh genius behind icohnic Pawp Ahrt at the Andy Warhol Mewseum in Pixsburgh,\u201d the recorded voice advises. \u201cVisit the Children\u2019s Mewseum of Pixsburgh, where kids ken take awf inta space den return to Ert to splesh in a river through hands-on exhibits.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll hear a lot of \u2018youse\u2019 and \u2018yinz\u2019 in the mix, depending on what path you choose,\u201d said Katie Burger, executive director of Visit PA. \u201cI really wanted it to feel like you\u2019re meeting up with someone at Wawa or Sheetz and having a conversation with them about what they did this weekend.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

To bask in Pennsylvania\u2019s phonological quirks, you must use the telephone. While winter tourism tips are available digitally on Visit PA\u2019s website<\/a>, the accented hotline is strictly old-school.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI see such a trend online now of people wanting to disconnect from screens and get back to that \u2018analog vibe,\u2019 is the term I keep hearing people use,\u201d Burger said.\n<\/p>\n

The cold weather hotline will run until Feb. 23. During that time, there will be windows of time when the hotline will be live, with a real person fielding calls in distinctive regional accents.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of it like a telethon,\u201d said Betsy Kenney, a Philadelphia comedian known for her viral ASMR videos speaking in an exaggerated Philly accent<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be taking calls for two hours straight and I\u2019m going to give people personal recommendations on things to do in the cold weather in Pennsylvania,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,7803,9653],"class_list":["post-103783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-tourism","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}