CVB Life Employee Blog

May 20, 2016

Register today for “Scoring Big with Sports Marketing!”

We are proud to announce the second industry event of the 2016 Tourism Excellence in Business & Leadership Seasonal Series, “Scoring Big with Sports Marketing” will be held Thursday, June 2 at the Virginia Beach Tennis and Country Club. The event will feature Jon Schmieder, Founder and CEO at Huddle Up Group LLC, who will discuss the challenges and opportunities of Sports Marketing in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. This event is open to all stakeholders within the Virginia Beach hospitality, tourism and travel industry. Happy hour will be sponsored by the Virginia Beach Tennis and Country Club. Event registration is available online at www.visitvirginiabeach.com/leadershipseries.

WHO:

Our awesome Sports Marketing team!

WHAT:

2016 Tourism Excellence in Business & Leadership Seasonal Series Event: “Scoring Big with Sports Marketing”

WHEN:

Thursday, June 2, 2016
2:30-3:00pm EST Registration
3:00-3:30pm Hot Topics
3:30-5:00pm Speaker
5:00-6:00pm Happy Hour

WHERE:

Virginia Beach Tennis and Country Club, 1950 Thomas Bishop Ln, Virginia Beach, VA 23454

COST:

Free

ATTIRE:

Casual Company Logowear

May 19, 2016

Tiffany Russell Earns National APR Accreditation!

Congratulations are in order for Tiffany Russell, Director of Public Relations and Interim VP of Marketing and Research here at the CVB, for earning the prestigious Accredited in Public Relations (APR) credential from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)! The APR credential was established in 1964 to recognize public relations practitioners who have mastered the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to develop and implement strategic communications. Way to go, Tiffany!

CLICK HERE to learn more about Tiffany’s achievement.

May 18, 2016

CVC Exhibit Hall

Check out the action from the first day at the Exhibit Hall from last weeks CVC East veterinary trade show at the Convention Center. It was a GREAT DAY in the Exhibit Hall according to CVC producing record record sales! Way to go, team!

May 18, 2016

Showing the VB Love in DC

May 18, 2016

VSAE Annual Meeting in Fairfax

Sally and Lisa celebrating Lisa’s appointment to the VSAE Board at the Annual Conference with Brandon Robinson, Executive Director and colleagues! Congratulations, Lisa!!

May 18, 2016

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.

Copy of A22A3253 — Pleasure House Oysters

Copy of A22A3254 — Pleasure House Oysters

Copy of A22A3716 — Country Music Artist Lauren Alaina

Copy of A22A3685 — Tiffany welcoming our guests

Copy of A22A3446 — Nick and Aristotle Cleanthes from Blue Pete’s Restaurant

Copy of A22A3307 — Jeramy Biggie from Commonwealth Brewing

Copy of A22A3238 — Tiffany and Steele Marcoux – Coastal Living Editor in Chief

Copy of A22A3849 — CVBers John, Tiffany and Travis

Copy of A22A4287 — Our awesome local VB purveyors and influencers

Copy of A22A4278 — Tiffany with Pleasure House Oysters Chris Ludford

May 18, 2016

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!

May 16, 2016

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.

May 16, 2016