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Time is running out to get involved in one of our most targeted and highly-used advertising opportunities each year. GRCVB's Official Visitors Guide to Raleigh, Cary and Wake County is circulated as an inspirational handbook to prospective and confirmed travelers to our destination. Partners...

The Bureau's sixth annual Meeting Professionals Summit took place on Fri., July 12, at The Westin Raleigh-Durham Airport. The event was a tremendous success, offering a full day of insightful sessions, networking and collaborative activities for meeting professionals from the surrounding...

This month GRCVB released our Official Media Kit for 2024-2025, a collection of Bureau-approved avenues to promote your business or organization to potential visitors. While every hospitality partner in Wake County already receives free, year-round exposure from the CVB, including an always-present

Raleigh, Cary and Wake County just experienced an impressive month of professional, college and amateur sports, and in May GRCVB's Public Relations Department released the following to travel media and other outlets about expected positive impacts on the destination: .......................

For GRCVB, our fiscal year is beginning to wind down, which means that while we're finishing up business for this year through June 30, we are getting primed and ready to go for fiscal year 2024‒2025 on July 1. Area partners can get a head start on our goals for the next year with our...

GRCVB is joining the U.S. Travel Association in celebrating Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) this Thurs., April 11. GMID is an international advocacy day recognizing the value of meetings of all kinds. From trade shows to business meetings to conferences and conventions, these meetings can boost

This past week GRCVB staff members attended the 2024 Visit North Carolina Tourism Conference in Greenville, N.C. Each year, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), major attractions, their advertising agencies and other stakeholders from across the state gather to network professionally and

GRCVB often shares various opportunities for partners to reach visitors to Raleigh/Wake County. And this week we are highlighting an opportunity for our farm-related partners—the Visit NC Farms app ("Visit NC" not to be confused with our statewide tourism organization, Visit North...

Even in 2019, GRCVB was touting Wake County's booming beer scene thanks, in part, to passage of the Craft Beer Distribution and Modernization Act. A pandemic, a recovery and a few years later, the craft beer scene is as strong as ever and still a vital part of visitation to Raleigh, N.C. To...

Last week GRCVB released its calendar year-end Wake County Tourism Industry Report, highlighting key performance indicators and hospitality tax collections that continued their upward trajectory throughout 2023. In case you missed it, we're republishing the great news here on the Tourism Talk