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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...

Thurs., Aug. 22, 2024 A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts Networking and light breakfast: 9-10am Program: 10-11am As the official destination marketing organization for Wake County, GRCVB is here to utilize our visitation data and partnerships with industry

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

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

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

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

If you are familiar with GRCVB, you might have heard of or attended Tourism U, an advocacy program focused on tourism and destination education. If not, we would love to meet with you and your team. (Email us here if you're interested in setting up a Tourism U 100 session for your staff!) We...

Raleigh and Wake County boast hundreds of options for meeting and event planners, be it venues and hotels for the business functions themselves or restaurants and attractions for arriving groups before/after their functions. To simplify our geography as well as our many business listings for