Tourism Talk blog

We have reached the halfway point in the 13-month development of the county's Destination Strategic Plan (DSP) for tourism. Here's a quick Q and A to bring everyone up to speed on the project and its progress. For those who may not know, what is the DSP? The Destination Strategic Plan for...

Every chance we get, we try to “beat the drum” — tourism is a $2.4 billion business in Wake County, making it one of the county’s top income and employment generators. And as such, it should be considered with the import and significance it deserves. At the CVB, we take...

Each year, the staff of the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau spends a full day at our Annual Retreat. Always in Jan., midway through our fiscal year, we schedule a day together (at one of our hospitality partners' venues) to talk about the year that has passed and the year ahead....

Because we are often asked these same nuts-and-bolts questions about the workings of GRCVB, we thought we would provide you with this important and foundational information about the Bureau all in one place. Question 1: Exactly what kind of entity is GRCVB, and to whom do you report? The GRCVB is an

As you know, GRCVB has been working with consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to develop a comprehensive Destination Strategic Plan for Raleigh and Wake County covering the next 10 years. This week, we’re sharing from JLL a brief summary of the work they've done so far and what’s...

We’re talking a lot about the Destination Strategic Plan (DSP) around here these days (and these conversations are about to include many of you). Our consulting partner, JLL, will be in town this week, conducting focus groups around the county and presenting at the GRCVB Annual Meeting, plus...

The Greater Raleigh CVB has thousands of peer organizations throughout the world, each representing a city/county, region, state or nation, and many are members of our CVB industry association, the Destination Marketing Association International (established 1914), officially rechristened as