Articles tagged “north carolina”

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IDEAS: Visit North Carolina Launches New Tourism Campaign to Experience ‘Real Fall Color’

Visit North Carolina has launched 'For Real Fall Colours', a new new campaign in partnership with its creative agency Luquire.  Credit: Visit North Carolina The campaign cleverly utilizes the manmade 'fall colors' of New York, and transforms them using transparent leaf-shaped magnets and stickers to highlight the organic colours North Carolina has to offer during…

Adam Stacey | 6 months ago

Tourism

Tourism Boards Expect New Marketing Insights From Google Analytics Update

Tourism boards are always trying to keep up with how visitors are finding and interacting their content. The Google Analytics update should make this easier. Hopefully, they can actually capitalize on the new information.

Dawit Habtemariam | 11 months ago

Tourism Boards Expect New Marketing Insights From Google Analytics Update

Tourism

Black-Inhabited Gullah Geechee Islands in U.S. Fight for Tourism on Own Terms

Tourism can bring billions of dollars to the Gullah Geechee Corridor along the Southeast coast in the U.S.. The challenge is ensuring most of it doesn't get siphoned off by profit-maximizing outsiders.

Dawit Habtemariam | 1 year ago

Black-Inhabited Gullah Geechee Islands in U.S. Fight for Tourism on Own Terms

Hotels

The Foundry Hotel Helps Engage With Asheville, NC’s Black Community

Historical preservation in hotel design isn't new, but it remains relatively rare for hotels to honor the rich histories of their Black neighborhoods. The industry need more leaders like Larry Crosby, general manager of The Foundry Hotel, part of Hilton's Curio Collection.

Carley Thornell | 1 year ago

The Foundry Hotel Helps Engage With Asheville, NC’s Black Community

Tourism

The Rise of Civil Rights Tourism in America’s Deep South

Historically, tourism in the Deep South steered clear of discussing slavery and Jim Crow, instead leaning on less contentious topics like country music and antebellum architecture. But now, civil rights museums are becoming an important part of the South's tourism landscape, even if many state tourism boards haven't gotten on the bandwagon.

Sarah Enelow, Skift | 8 years ago

The Rise of Civil Rights Tourism in America’s Deep South

Meetings

Charlotte Already Sees Impact of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Bill on Convention Business

Tourism bureaus in North Carolina are losing significant convention business due to the governor's new anti-LGBT law, so they need to start collecting as much data as possible to support a potential amendment.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Charlotte Already Sees Impact of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Bill on Convention Business

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Best Travel Ads This Week: Balancing Between Excitement and Exaggeration

Not all Airbnb hosts are as welcoming as Airbnb depicts and not all Ibis are as luxurious as it portrays, but advertising is more about shifting consumers' perceptions of a product than their practical expectations.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

Best Travel Ads This Week: Balancing Between Excitement and Exaggeration