We’re number one! CLICK HERE to check out the full list!
MSN.com receives 139,025,413 unique monthly visitors
VB Tops MSN.com’s list of Best Beaches for Memorial Day Weekend!
Repping VB in NYC
A few members from our CVB Communications Team were in NYC last week to meet with Time, Inc. media and to attend Coastal Living’s Virginia Beach-themed takeover of Time Inc.’s new culinary space. The event was open to media and NY-based influencers and allowed guests to immerse themselves in all things VB under the theme of “Seasoned by Salt Air.” In addition to the CVB, a host of VB purveyors and influencers traveled up for the event – including Pleasure House Oysters, Surf & Adventure Co., First Landing Woodworks, Terrapin Restaurant, Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum, Commonwealth Brewing, Blue Pete’s Restaurant and Commune Restaurant – to help tell the VB story to over 300 media members in attendance.
ECSC Featured on About.com
The East Coast Surfing Championships received a super awesome feature within the travel section on About.com (Unique Monthly Visitors: 28,505,498). It’s always exciting to see such big features on one event, including additional festivities that take place at the boardwalk.
CLICK HERE to see the great feature!
The Local Palate: Virginia Beach Revival
CLICK HERE to check out this Virginia Beach cover story of our culinary scene in The Local Palate! This is tremendous, top-tier coverage for our destination, which is a focus of our FY16 PR strategy.
VB Featured in the Baltimore Sun
CLICK HERE to check out this awesome FAQ-style feature on Virginia Beach in The Baltimore Sun’s Sunday edition.
The Baltimore Sun has a daily circulation of 121,351 and receives 3.35 million unique monthly visitors online.
VB Makes Travel + Leisure’s List of America’s Favorite Cities
VB checks in at number 14. Also making the list are Richmond and Norfolk.
VB Receives Travel Channel Coverage!
TravelChannel.com has a strong social media following with 1.8 million likes on Facebook, 1.4 million followers on Twitter and 935K followers on Instagram.
VB Coverage in Sport Fishing
Sport Fishing (circulation: 80,359) writer Sam Hudson visited Virginia Beach last year on a fishing press visit, and has beautifully described the fishing available on and off the coast, as well as includes a graph showing fish seasonality.
Check out the “reel” good feature here.
Virginia Beach is Everywhere!
Check out this slideshow highlighting April’s OOH Creative Placement!
- Washington, DC and Philadelphia kiosk locations were manned April 9 and 10, and New York kiosk location was manned April 2
- About 389 total successful consumer conversations
- 154 Win Your Beach Life on-site sweepstakes registrations
CRUSA China Sales Mission
From left to right: Cynthia Wang, our BrandStory China representative, Our Vice President of Tourism Marketing and Sales, Ron Kuhlman, and Dora of China Connections tour operator at the CRUSA China trade show in Xi’an, China last week.