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GRCVB convention sales team members Stephen Jackson, CMP, and Loretta Yingling, CMP Fellow, traveled to Calif., Aug. 9-12, 2025, to represent our destination at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition. Alongside Stephen and Loretta, industry partners...
GRCVB’s 2024-2025 Annual Report was released last week, with the online report including summaries from each of the Bureau’s departments (Convention Sales, Destination Services, Marketing and Communications, Public Relations and International Tourism, Sports Marketing, Administration...
GRCVB’s seventh annual Meeting Professionals Summit (MPS) took place on Fri., July 11, at the Renaissance Raleigh North Hills Hotel. The event welcomed meeting planners and hospitality professionals from across the region for a full day of education, networking and collaboration. This...

GRCVB Wins Big at 2024 NCTIA Conference

Friday, December 06, 2024, 1pm by visitRaleigh

GRCVB award winners at the 2024 Tourism Leadership Conference. From left: Vimal Vyas, CDME, vice president of data, security and digital innovation; Derek Allman, associate director of marketing and communications; Amber Harmon, design manager; Carly Delengowski, CGSP®, content marketing...
Raleigh, N.C. (Nov. 14, 2024) – Visit Raleigh released the Wake County Tourism Industry Report for the third quarter of 2024 today. Key performance indicators (KPIs), hospitality tax collections and prepared food and beverage tax collections continue to see increases over 2023 year-to-date...
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...

Global Meetings Industry Day

Friday, April 05, 2024, 12pm by visitRaleigh

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
GRCVB is always hard at work crafting new initiatives and sales assets to help draw visitors to Raleigh and Wake County. Be it our leisure tourism, sports or meetings and conventions marketing, we aim to reach audiences of prospective clients and visitors with storytelling that speaks to why the
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