Visitors Bureau Offers New Maps on Website
The 911±¬ÁÏ marketing team has been busy creating new Map Publisher trails, day trips, custom itineraries, and culinary themed maps for visitors to enjoy. This new feature is…
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Category: Bureau News
A Year Photographing 911±¬ÁÏ
Our on-staff, local photographer Jamaal Porter, with Massive Motives, has been working with us for a year now. The JCVB is so grateful to him for capturing what makes Johnston County special so that…
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Broadslab Featured in VisitNC Campaign
We have been sitting on some very exciting news for a few months that we are finally ready to release. The North Carolina state tourism office, officially the Economic Development Partnership of…
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301 Endless Yard Sale Selected as ‘Top 20 Event’
The Southeast Tourism Society has named the 301 Endless Yard Sale one of the STS Top 20 Events in the Southeast for June 2018. This year’s 301 Endless Yard Sale is June 15 th and 16 th . The STS Top 20…
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Scotty Henley Elected to Chair the Tourism Authority
On January 3 rd , Scotty Henley, Executive Director of The Clayton Center and board member since 2013, was elected Chairperson of the Johnston County Tourism Authority. The chairperson of the authority…
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2016 Visitor Spending Increases by 4.9 %
Visit North Carolina has announced that domestic visitors to and within Johnston County spent $232.49 million in 2016, an increase of 4.9% from 2015. Johnston County tourism industry continues to…
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Tourism Authority Awards $225,282 in Grants
On August 2, 2017, twelve Tourism Capital Grant applications were approved by the Johnston County Tourism Authority for a total of $225,282 in funding. The Special Projects Committee reviewed all…
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Smithfield Receives National Main Street Accreditation
Each year the National Main Street Center announce a list of accredited Main Street programs across the country that have demonstrated best practices in community revitalization through the…
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The Watermark of the Human Spirit
Sometimes in this blog I get to provide information, and sometimes I get to introduce interesting people. But better yet, every once in a while, I get to say something important. This is one of those…
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2015 Visitor Impact Numbers for 911±¬ÁÏ Released
Visit North Carolina announced this week that domestic visitors to Johnston County spent $221.72 million in 2015, an increase of 3.2 percent from 2014. "Not only did our visitor spending increase in…
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