Venue and Image Upgrades Part of Little Rock Tourism Master Plan
Improving how locals and visitors perceive the city through "positive storytelling" is part of nine key recommendations. read more >
Improving how locals and visitors perceive the city through "positive storytelling" is part of nine key recommendations. read more >
The cycling pass, developed with the technology company Bandwango, is a free program with more than 50 of central Arkansas’ cycling trails and routes featured in a passport-like format. read more >
The staff changes include Joy Barlogie, Diana Long and Stasha Irby. read more >
Gina Gemberling became chief of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau earlier this year and believes it needs to be proactive in selling the city as a top destination. read more >
Adam Berrios and Kasey Summerville are now vice presidents. read more >
The Arkansas hospitality industry, like industries across the United States, has worked hard to recruit and retain workers in the tightest labor market in decades. read more >
She's helping lead a tourism master plan initiative that will identify competitive positioning and tourism infrastructure needs. read more >
He'll carry out the recommendations of a technological infrastructure review that the LRCVB commissioned in 2021. 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 >
Alex Hanes has been promoted and Amanda Mauck has been hired at MHP/Team SI of Little Rock. read more >
Chris Phillips has been promoted to senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer at the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau. read more >
He joined the LRCVB in 2017 and stepped into the interim CFO role in July 2021. 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 >
Officials at the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau expected 2020 to be a record-setting tourism and tax collection year, but the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way, according to the CVB's annual report. read more >
Clay Moon has been hired as senior sales director for national associations by the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau. read more >
