Tourism Talk blog

Open up those calendars and place a hold on the date for GRCVB's Annual Meeting: Thursday, August 17, 2023 A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts 10-11am Networking and light breakfast: 9am It was five years ago at the 2018 GRCVB Annual Meeting that we

We use as many marketing tools as we can effectively manage at GRCVB to promote Wake County as a destination for travel of all types. These include traditional, tried-and-true methods like print collateral, email, environmental graphics, display advertising and, of course, visitRaleigh.com. In

In the coming weeks, GRCVB will be releasing its 2023-2024 Business Plan, which includes invaluable information for hospitality business partners' and other stakeholder organizations' use in their own planning for the coming year. We encourage our area partners to reference the annual...

While attending our Tourism Talk Live this quarter, I was reminded how much destination marketing is really based in good partner relations and in relationships that are mutually beneficial, two-way and interactive. I also was reminded of how many new faces and other changes we’re still...

We often use the Tourism Talk blog to introduce our audience to significant partners and stakeholders with whom we work at GRCVB. They are significant because they all have something in common—they all enrich the tourism ecosystem in Wake County. These are people you need to have in your...

Big news! The 2023 Official Visitors Guide to Raleigh, Cary and Wake County is off the press and ready to circulate to visitors, clients, partners and stakeholders. It's especially big news this year because the last guide GRCVB published went to press in April 2020, thus (because of the...

We believe there are some people in our area whom every hospitality partner ought to know (or at least know about). Previously we have introduced you to Whitney Knollenberg, Ph.D., Ed Tomasi and Duarte Morais, Ph.D., to name a few. Today, we want to make sure you know Michael Altman. Michael is an

Since the destination brand's refresh in 2015, we at GRCVB have made every effort to showcase as many local, passionate-minded makers as we possibly can. For the past seven-plus years, we have been working with many Wake County businesses to create a product inventory that GRCVB can use...

It’s been a great year for national and international media coverage of Raleigh and Wake County. We have been mentioned in some of the largest media outlets in the world throughout the year, and together this earned coverage accounts for hundreds of millions of impressions about our...

As we do every year, we have collected thousands of images that relate to hospitality and tourism in Wake County during 2022. Added to the library this year were festivals/events, businesses, attractions and, most importantly, people, including the visitors and employees who make our area's