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Greater Raleigh Convention & Visitors Bureau Hires Loren Gold as Director of Sales

Media Contact: Martin Armes; (919) 645-2654; marmes@visitraleigh.com
 

RALEIGH, N.C. (July 2005) -- The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau (GRCVB) has named Loren Gold as its new Director of Sales.

Gold officially started July 11 and is charged with helping sell Raleigh's new convention center slated to open in Spring 2008 and generating business for many other Capital City area meeting facilities and almost 13,700 hotel rooms, including four upscale hotel properties slated to open the next few years. In doing so, he will retool the Bureau's internal efforts as there are plans to bolster the GRCVB sales staff with three new additions in the coming months.

Boasting a decade of senior sales management experience, Gold previously held positions in the hotel and CVB industries in the Washington, DC, area. He was most recently Director of National Sales in Wyndham International's DC National Sales Office with sales responsibility to 130 Wyndham properties and started his career as a National Sales Manager for Marriott Hotels and Resorts following graduation from Arizona State University.

Gold's initial CVB experience was as Regional Director of Sales in DC for the Denver Metro CVB. The Northern Virginia native then founded the first United States Company dedicated exclusively to multiple CVB representation as City Reps Inc. generated meeting and tradeshow business leads for Bureaus in Cincinnati, Houston, Long Beach, Memphis, Minneapolis, Providence and San Jose.

The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau is a non-profit agency enhancing the economic growth and development of Raleigh and Wake County by increasing visitor and convention business.