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Greater Raleigh CVB Hires Three
National Sales Managers

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

RALEIGH, N.C. (November, 2005) -- The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau recently added three new national sales managers to its team in Stephen Jackson, Jana Rae Oliver and Loretta Yingling.

Jackson joins the Bureau from the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC, were he had extensive training in hotel operations, guest services and sales. He also spent time in Las Vegas with the MGM Grand in a variety of positions. Jackson graduated Magna Cum Laude from North Carolina Central University with a degree in hospitality and will be handling the multicultural meetings market that encompasses groups from the African American, Hispanic and Gay and Lesbian communities, along with the national association market in Colorado, Texas, California and Washington.

Oliver spent a decade working at the CVB in Tucson, Ariz., most recently as convention manager handling all convention center users for the Bureau. She also has convention center operations experience as a booking manager for the Tucson facility. Oliver has extensive experience in the religious market with primary focus on the Midwest market (excluding minority and fraternal) with her primary focus being on the medical associations from Illinois. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky and Tennessee will be her secondary focus.

Yingling possesses an extensive hotel background most recently working with MHI Hotels selling the Hilton Wilmington (NC) and calling on corporate, association and government accounts in the Triangle area. She also has worked for the former Holiday Inn (now the Clarion) State Capital and the Sheraton Chapel Hill. Yingling will be handling the Northeast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic (DC, MD, VA) and NC markets for all groups (except religious, minority and fraternal) of 51 rooms peak or more that don't require the new Raleigh Convention Center.

The Greater Raleigh CVB is a non-profit agency that promotes Raleigh and Wake County to enhance the economic growth and development of Raleigh and Wake County by increasing visitor and convention business. For a free visitors guide or more promotional information, call (800) 849-8499; visit http://www.visitraleigh.com/, or e-mail visit@visitraleigh.com. That's "City Life, Carolina Style."