LRCVB Picks Gina Gemberling as Next CEO
She's helping lead a tourism master plan initiative that will identify competitive positioning and tourism infrastructure needs. read more >
She's helping lead a tourism master plan initiative that will identify competitive positioning and tourism infrastructure needs. read more >
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the nation’s other governors delivered some words of wisdom last week to President Joe Biden: Give the states’ chief executives flexibility when spending federal infrastructure money. read more >
She's an industry veteran who has led the bureau's sales and marketing efforts in recent years. read more >
She joined LRCVB in 2001 in its Event Operations Division and was named the president and CEO in 2011. read more >
In cities that collect advertising and promotion taxes for tourism on hotel and restaurant receipts, the numbers talk. read more >
At Ottenheimer Market Hall in the River Market, four vendors failed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, but perhaps more surprising — considering that the hall’s doors were closed for more than a year — is that 11 vendors have returned. read more >
Alicia Wilmoth has been named director of economic development for the city of Cabot. read more >
Gretchen Hall, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, will serve as board chair of Destinations International, effective July 1. read more >
Sales tax or no, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. is ready to rebrand the city with a new marketing campaign, a new city flag and a new website. read more >
The National Junior College Athletic Association is bringing its football championship games to Little Rock for the next three years. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic sent hospitality tax collections in Arkansas plummeting last year, and the blow to some tourism bureaus in the state, which rely on the taxes for revenue, was even worse than those figures show. read more >
Lost Forty Brewing of Little Rock says it will open a restaurant and specialty brewing facility at the site of the recently shuttered East Sixth Brewing Co. (formerly known as Rebel Kettle Brewing) at 822 E. 6th St. in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas’ hospitals and other industries have urgent concerns for the Legislature to address in the regular session that will commence on Jan. 11, but a key piece of the hospitality industry has needs that are more urgent. read more >
Gretchen Hall, the CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, talks about what concrete action steps her organization is implementing to address systemic racism and inequality. read more >
Outdoor drinks and dining have become commonplace in American downtowns, a trend pioneered in Arkansas by Little Rock, which initiated the River Market Entertainment District last summer. read more >
Gretchen Hall has been named the chair-elect of Destinations International’s board of directors. read more >
The Little Rock Board of Directors last week approved an expansion of the existing River Market Entertainment District and the creation of a temporary district in the South Main neighborhood. read more >
The coronavirus pandemic has battered city convention and visitors bureaus in Arkansas and sapped their sources of revenue: lodging and restaurant taxes. An industry built on bringing people together and attracting tourists is uniquely vulnerable to an infectious disease. read more >
Gretchen Hall was finishing up an odd National Travel and Tourism Week on Friday, touring local and national sites virtually while cautiously looking forward to a revival in business for the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau. read more >
More than 50 events at Little Rock Convention & Tourism Bureau venues have been canceled into August, and downtown hotels’ March revenue compared to last year plunged 90%. read more >
