The clock is ticking on being involved in GRCVB's most targeted and highly requested advertising opportunity each year. Our Official Visitors Guide to Raleigh, Cary and Wake County is distributed countywide and beyond as an inspirational guide to prospective and confirmed travelers to our destination. Partners have until Sept. 30, 2025, to submit for advertising in our next official guide, slated for release in Feb. 2026.

On top of distributing guides to individuals by request, arriving groups, tour operators and even event planners interested in visiting Raleigh and Wake County, we stock each of N.C.'s official Welcome Centers, the official Raleigh, N.C., Visitor Information Center in downtown Raleigh and other visitor desks statewide throughout the year. You can also find our guides shared in area hotels and other accommodations, museums and attractions, shopping centers and at RDU International Airport. In total for 2025, we'll disperse some 80,000 guides.

Also upon publication in February next year, digital copies of the new guide will be emailed to 45,000+ visitRaleigh the E-magazine subscribers, with partner ads linking directly to advertisers' websites.

Whether it's traditional sightseeing or new developments of interest for our target audiences, the Official Visitors Guide covers arts, culinary, music, major annual events, outdoor recreation, sports, local shopping and much more throughout all 12 municipalities in Wake County.

If you are interested in advertising within the next Visitors Guide, see GRCVB's 2025-2026 Official Media Kit for details, or contact vice president of business development John Balhouse and regional advertising manager Casey Hough with custom publisher Compass Media today.