The mission of the TI Council is development, promotion, enhancement and retention of the tourism industry and its associated employment base within the territory encompassing generally the County of Jefferson in the State of New York, an area of approximately the same size in the southern portion of eastern Ontario, The Thousand Islands Regional Tourism Development Corporation has served the tourism promotion interests of the 1000 Islands international region since 1956. Since the beginning, the TI Council has been an international partnership. The TI Council is a nonprofit corporation, whose largest financial supporters are the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority (TIBA), Federal Bridge Corporation Limited of Canada, and Jefferson County, New York. The Corporation contracts as the official Tourism Promotion Agency for Jefferson County and receives bed tax funds from the county. The TI Council works with the Ontario-based 1000 Islands – St. Lawrence Seaway Marketing Partnership to coordinate international marketing efforts.