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Job Opportunity at JCVB
Life is a series of changes and challenges…didn’t I just say that in my last blog?
Angie Abrams, our Sales Manager at the Visitors Bureau has taken another job opportunity with the Fayetteville Convention & Visitors Bureau. We wish her well at her new job and we now embark on our quest to fill the [...]
Life is a series of changes and challenges
Being a military brat and changing schools every 12-18 months, I learned what it was like to always be the “new kid” . I learned to adapt to change early in life and some people may consider it a strength that I can accept “moving on” as part of life’s journey. But now that I [...]
Johnston County Tourism Authority Awards Special Event Grants
(Smithfield, NC) The Johnston County Tourism Authority held its monthly meeting, September 3, and disbursed $15,000 in Special Event Grants to help market the county’s events to visitors. For over 20 years, the Visitors Bureau has supported tourism development and marketing for events and festivals with a grants program.
The Tourism Authority reaches out to all [...]
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Marketing in Today’s Economic Climate
Most savvy marketing executives know that a successful company must keep ahead of the trends and be ready to shift the “marketing plan” to adjust to economic conditions. And in today’s travel and tourism market, many companies including Destination Marketing Organizations are making changes due to high gas prices, consumer concerns for housing, food expenses [...]
NC Division of Tourism hosting Group Tour Marketing Road Show in Smithfield
(Smithfield, NC) - Do you want to know more about how to successfully market your business to the group tour industry? Plan to join Frank Jernigan, Director of Domestic Marketing, with the NC Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development on July 15 in Smithfield for a Group Tour Marketing Road Show. The Johnston County [...]
Johnston County Visitors Bureau Wins Awards
The Destination Marketing Association of North Carolina is the trade association for over 40 Convention & Visitors Bureau from across the state. The Annual Meeting was held recently in Asheville with over 120 travel professionals learning from speakers, networking and exchanging ideas on how best to promote our destinations in North Carolina.
One of the annual [...]
SLEEP INN & SUITES SMITHFIELD RANKED NUMBER 1 SLEEP INN
Smithfield, NC (May, 2008) - The Sleep Inn & Suites located at 270 North Equity Drive is ranked # 1 in its brand as of March 31, 2008. The Sleep Inn & Suites has previously won Choice’s Platinum Hospitality Award in 2006 & 2007. Only three percent of properties in the Choice Hotels system are [...]
Building the Tourism Product in Johnston County
Since 1987, the Johnston County Tourism Authority has invested over one million dollars in capital grant money to tourism related projects. This past Wednesday, the board made a check presentation to the Benson Museum of Local History for $50,000 to help the Town of Benson renovate a building on Main Street to become the new home to [...]
“Pamper Yourself Like a Star” Shopping Sweepstakes
The Johnston County Visitors Bureau is partnering with several stakeholders in the community to offer a shopping sweepstakes on the NC Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development web site, www.visitnc.com and we invite you to enter to win!
Here’s the promotional copy…..you must visit the state’s web site to enter, and the contest will run [...]
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