Tourism Talk blog

GRCVB’s seventh annual Meeting Professionals Summit (MPS) took place on Fri., July 11, at the Renaissance Raleigh North Hills Hotel. The event welcomed meeting planners and hospitality professionals from across the region for a full day of education, networking and collaboration. This...

GRCVB stays busy throughout the year promoting restaurants, attractions, hotels and more to visitors and locals alike. But did you know that the most-consulted section of visitRaleigh.com, other than the visitRaleigh insider blog, is the Calendar of Events? As we approach summer, visitor (and local)

GRCVB offers many resources to our partners beyond listings for their businesses on visitRaleigh.com. Each hospitality business/organization has access to great information and resources, including our Partner Information eXchange Login (PIXL), regularly updated visitor-sector trends charts and a

It may feel like we just met for Tourism Talk Live back in March, and you are right! Thanks to a late-season snowstorm, our "winter" Tourism Talk Live was delayed. But even with delays, we are ready for yet another Tourism Talk Live with you, our hospitality partners throughout the county!...

2025 is off to an exciting start here in Raleigh, and we're equally as excited to share that GRCVB's new Official Visitors Guide to Raleigh, Cary and Wake County has arrived to inspire visitors of all kinds coming to the destination. This guide is chock-full of ideas for a trip to Raleigh...

Part of our job at GRCVB, specifically in the Marketing and Communications Department, is to create and maintain the destination photo/video library. Over the last 15+ years, we have accumulated more than 30,000 images and videos of Wake County, of area hospitality business partners and venues, of

Earlier this month, staff of GRCVB's Destination Services Department attended the Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) Annual Conference in Louisville, Ky. For over 30 years, ESPA has been the leading voice for event service professionals across North America, and as the only...

2025 is here, and we're eager to get this year started right with another Tourism Talk Live! If you're new to partnering with us, Tourism Talk Live is GRCVB's quarterly marketing update meeting in which we share with our partners what we've been up to and how we can work together...

At GRCVB we believe that our local partners are the backbone of what makes Raleigh and Wake County truly a charming and diverse place to visit. The official tourism website, visitRaleigh.com, not only operates to help promote all Wake County visitor-facing businesses free-of-charge, but also it

Raleigh, N.C. (Nov. 14, 2024) – Visit Raleigh released the Wake County Tourism Industry Report for the third quarter of 2024 today. Key performance indicators (KPIs), hospitality tax collections and prepared food and beverage tax collections continue to see increases over 2023 year-to-date...