Tourism Talk blog

“Do you surf the Web, and are you on the information superhighway?” While these questions seem quaint and even humorous today, they were questions on everyone’s mind, in all seriousness, in the mid-to-late 1990s, as many U.S. companies and individuals created their first...

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

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the annual industry celebration National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW), the annual celebration of the contributions of the U.S. travel industry, will spotlight the essential role that travel will play in driving economic growth and innovation through the

A few weeks ago in the Tourism Talk blog, we featured some of the visitor profile statistics which appear in GRCVB's 2023-2024 Business Plan. Today we're ready to release the full plan (click here) to our hospitality business partners and stakeholders. GRCVB's destination marketing...

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...

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...

We published a blog post late in 2022 telling you that Tourism U, GRCVB's learning track for tourism and destination education, is back in session. Now we want you to know that the first classes of 2023 were held at RDU International Airport the last week of Jan. 2023. Thanks to RDU’s...

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

The beginning of a new year is always a good time to check in with community leaders, to ask about their plans and dreams for the next 12 months, what's on their minds, what keeps them up at night, and in our case, what do all hospitality partners and stakeholders need to know about the big...

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...