Author: Scott Peacock

As the director of public relations & international tourism for GRCVB, Scott leads the Bureau's efforts to create awareness of Raleigh, N.C., as a premier leisure travel, group, meeting and sporting event destination in the southeast U.S., through targeted public relations as well as international tourism sales and marketing strategies.

Promoting Raleigh, N.C., Overseas

Friday, November 01, 2019, 3pm by Scott Peacock

As we speak about the impact tourism has on broader economic development for our region, that notion is no more evident than in our international tourism efforts. That said, in early October I spent a week overseas for a series of events in Paris and London in support of our nonstop flights to RDU
For the second consecutive year, the GRCVB partnered with Wake County Economic Development, the City of Raleigh and Raleigh Convention Center to tell the region’s story at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, March 11–14, 2018. The group exhibited in SXSW’s interactive...