Weekly e-newsletter for Visit NC Partners - November 7, 2024
IN THIS ISSUE: * Special pricing for holiday Featured Event listings
* Visit NC launching recovery campaign next week
* November two-part webinar: Getting Organized with OneNote
Special pricing for holiday Featured Event listings
Visit NC is once again offering a special one-time discount on our most popular partner program: Featured Events. For events from now through New Year's Eve, we are offering Featured Event placements for a discounted price of $150 (normally $300).
Featured Events promote your destination to audiences on VisitNC.com for a 60-day window. As part of this offer, your event will be part of a new, dedicated webpage and email newsletter that Visit NC will send to its database of more than 175,000 email subscribers ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend.
North Carolina has many incredible winter events taking place across the state, and we look forward to helping you create awareness and generate visitation to each of them with this one-time discount on Featured Events.
This special promotion isn’t limited to one Featured Event either, as you can take advantage of this special rate for each event you’d like to showcase. However, the event must take place before the end of this year. Should you have questions or need more details, email the partner program team at vncpartnerprograms@luquire.com.
Visit NC launching recovery campaign next week
The NC General Assembly allocated $5 million to Visit NC through the NC Department of Commerce to promote Western NC tourism recovery for “a targeted media campaign aimed at encouraging both in-state and out-of-state tourists to return to the region.” Visit NC will be launching its recovery campaign next week.
Visit NC continues to update its Western NC Travel Update webpage and interactive map
to showcase areas that are reopening to visitation and show ways for travelers to reach them. This map is updated as conditions change.
As the Western NC Travel Advisory webpage remains active, if tourism partners have updates on closures or openings, major event news or properties offering discounts to those displaced by the storm, please send that information to alert@visitnc.com. These efforts will be added to Visit NC’s communications as appropriate.
Visit NC’s November two-part webinar: Getting Organized with OneNote
For its November webinar, Visit NC is hosting a special two-part session on OneNote, led by Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Instructor Laura Cone. Participants will learn how to create digital notebooks that unify handwritten notes, drawings, file attachments, and even video/audio. Participants will structure notebooks into sections and pages that can be easily searched and tagged. OneNote is great for documentation of projects and is necessary for busy people who need to stay organized! The first part of the webinar is at 10 a.m. on Nov. 14. The second part of the webinar is at 10 a.m. on Nov. 21. Also different from previous webinars, each webinar will last two hours. Click
here to register for one or both of the webinars.
A guided tour at the US
Airborne & Special
Operations Museum in
Fayetteville
Visit NC’s Destination Immersion wraps up inaugural year
Visit NC has wrapped up the inaugural year for its Destination Immersion program. This program brings Visit NC staff into communities to experience tourism-related aspects such as tour attractions and activities, then the team meets with the local DMO for in-depth discussions. This year, Visit NC experienced notable attractions and had stimulating conversations with Henderson County TDA, Granville County TDA, Transylvania County TDA and Fayetteville Area CVB. The Visit NC team is continuing this quarterly program in 2025. For more information, contact Kathy Prickett at (919) 447-7769.
Explore Boone moves offices, opens visitor center
Explore Boone/Watauga County TDA has moved its offices and opened a visitor center in its new location. The new address 171 Grand Blvd. in Boone (28607). Phone numbers and emails remain the same.
Vote for NC sites among ‘Holiday awards
North Carolina has three sites among the nominations for 10Best's Readers' Choice Awards categories for “Best places to go and things to do for the holidays.” Online voting by readers is now open via USAToday.com; click on the hyperlink to vote. Voting ends at noon onDec. 2.
Best Holiday Historic Home Tour – Biltmore, Asheville
‘This Lesser-known North Carolina City Has Beautiful Hikes, a Lively Downtown, and the World's Largest Natural Habitat Zoo’
Travel + Leisure spotlighted Asheboro in its “This Lesser-known North Carolina City Has Beautiful Hikes, a Lively Downtown, and the World's Largest Natural Habitat Zoo
.” The article explained, in part, “Located in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad region, the city of Asheboro has a wild side. It's home to the world’s largest natural habitat zoo – one of the most popular attractions in the state – as well as lots of outdoor activities, including hiking Purgatory Mountain; the trailhead can be found near the zoo entrance.... But outdoor exploration is only part of Asheboro's appeal. Visitors can make their way downtown to shop, eat, and enjoy the growing nightlife.”
‘Charlotte's Food Scene Is a Sports Fans' Dream’
For its “Charlotte's Food Scene Is a Sports Fans' Dream
,” Food & Wine provided an “insider's guide to sports bars, pubs, a brewery, and more destinations for football fans to score a taste of Charlotte.” The articled noted, in part, “Tailgate or not, a true football game day in Charlotte would be remiss without at least one stop for a beer and a bite to pre-game, post-game, or just game. And this city has a plethora – a possibly disproportionate amount – of places that can provide just that. Charlotte’s got breezy patios for the laid back fan, sardine-packed dive bars for the die-hard, sceney breweries for the bandwagoner, and brunches for the girly-pop (or anyone fueling up).”
For the week of Nov. 7, "North Carolina Weekend” offers "Naturally NC.” Featured segments include Divine Llama Vineyards in East Bend; Sky Top Orchard in Flat Rock; “Dueling Dinosaurs,” an exhibit at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh; Rolling Pines Disc Golf in Wilkesboro; and Riverbend Creamery in Lincolnton. (Check local listings, as segments are subject to change.) "North Carolina Weekend" is underwritten by Visit North Carolina. In addition, PBS North Carolina has recent editions of "North Carolina Weekend" available online.
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