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Southeast Tourism Society
The Atlanta-headquartered Southeast Tourism Society (STS) will bring more than 200 tourism professionals to New Orleans for its fall membership meeting Nov. 8-10.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Tourism equals economic development. That is the straightforward message the Southeast Tourism Society plans to take to Washington, D.C., during its May 11-12 STS Grassroots Congressional Summit. Representatives for the 12 STS states, which stretch from West Virginia to Florida to Arkansas and Louisiana, have scheduled individual and group meetings with members of Congress in cooperation with the National Tour Association, a leading trade organization in the group tour industry.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
More than 60 tourism professionals earned certification as a "Travel Marketing Professional" (TMP) after completing the three-year program of Southeast Tourism Society (STS) Marketing College. Sixty-four students were recognized as new TMPs , with 39 coming in person to be recognized for this achievement at the STS spring meeting in Destin, Fla. STS Marketing College started in 1992, and 628 people have earned TMP certification.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Dealing with the volatility of the travel industry is the focus of more than 300 travel and tourism marketing professionals when the 12-state Southeast Tourism Society (STS) stages its spring meeting March 28-30 at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort.
Friday, March 25, 2011
The Southeast Tourism Society has compiled a list of events for the Southeast region for July, August and September 2011.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Promoters of tourism often face skeptical audiences when they cite tourism as a tool of economic development, but the Southeast Tourism Society and a tourism-oriented economist have devised a program to explain tourism's importance on a county-by-county basis.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Paramore|Redd Online Marketing in Nashville, Tenn., has become a corporate sponsor of Southeast Tourism Society (STS), a 12-state regional travel promotion association whose other corporate sponsors include Days Inn, TripInfo.com and Southern Living Magazine.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Close to 90 tourism professionals earned certification as a "Travel Marketing Professional" (TMP) after completing the three-year program of Southeast Tourism Society (STS) Marketing College. Eight-nine students were acknowledged as new TMPs, with 52 coming in person to be recognized for this achievement at the STS spring meeting March 22 in Nashville, Tenn.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Southeast Tourism Society (STS), an Atlanta-based tourism association, is launching a formal relationship with the National Park Service (NPS) that looks to enhance the future of national parks in the Southeastern U.S.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The state of Maryland has joined the 11-state regional tourism research association of the Southeast States Chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (SETTRA). The union was approved by the board directors of Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) last month.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Gov. Sonny Perdue has given Bill Hardman, president and CEO of the Southeast Tourism Society, the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for his tourism career that began in 1969.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Southeast Tourism Society honored the best and brightest in the tourism industry at its annual Shining Example Awards banquet.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Atlanta-based Southeast Tourism Society (STS) is one of three groups organizing a policy forum in Washington, D.C., that will examine stimulating the economies of gateway communities and tribal communities nationwide.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Hundreds of tourism industry professionals from across the United States are enrolled in Southeast Tourism Society's Marketing College this month.
Monday, July 27, 2009
A Top-20 events list for winter 2010 has been compiled by the Southeast Tourism Society.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Southeast Tourism Society has released their STS Top 20 Events for Fall 2009.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Fifty-seven tourism professionals have earned certification as a "Travel Marketing Professional" (TMP) after completing the three-year program of the Southeast Tourism Society Marketing College. The new TMPs were recognized at the STS spring meeting in Montgomery, Ala. The STS Marketing College started in 1992, and 473 people have earned TMP certification.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Promoting tourism in the Southeast in the current economy is the focus of a meeting of Southeast Tourism Society (STS) in Montgomery from March 23-25. Approximately 225 tourism professionals are registered.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Southeast Tourism Society has released their Summer 2009 Top 20 Events list.
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Southeast Tourism Society has compiled a list of the Top 20 Events for July, August and September.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Southeast Tourism Society has released their Spring 2009 Top 20 Events list.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Southeast Tourism Society honored the best and brightest in the tourism industry at its annual Shining Example Awards banquet.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Southeast Tourism Society releases events throughout the region through the first three months of 2009.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Hundreds of tourism industry professionals will gather in Little Rock, Arkansas at The Peabody Little Rock hotel for the Southeast Tourism Society's (STS) annual Fall meeting, Sept. 5-7. This years' meeting also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the organization, an award ceremony and also a voluntourism project.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A record 310 tourism industry professionals from across the United States are enrolled in the Southeast Tourism Society Marketing College this month. The STS Marketing College is a professional development program that for one week each summer turns the facilities of North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Ga., into a laboratory to teach tourism marketing.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) has named the seven-state southeast region its "Chapter of the Year." Representatives of Southeast Travel and Tourism Research (SETTRA) received the award at TTRA's national conference in Philadelphia earlier this month. There are nine TTRA chapters; the southeast chapter covers Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Southeast Tourism Society has compiled Fall 2008's Top 20 Events.
Friday, June 13, 2008
The Southeast Tourism Society offers the top events through the end of this year in the southeast.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Approximately 350 travel and tourism professionals will meet in Asheville, N.C., March 31-April 1 for educational programs that include a presentation from Southern food celebrity Paula Deen and a "voluntourism" project on the French Broad River.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Southeast Tourism Society has released a schedule of events through September 2008.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Southeast Tourism Society releases their Top 20 Events for Summer 2008, detailing many of the great things to do in the region.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Two organizations with a common interest in good times for masses of people have begun working together to enhance and promote festivals and special events in the Southeast. They are the 12-state Southeast Tourism Society (STS), which is headquartered in Atlanta, and the International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA), which is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, and has affiliates around the world.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has named Bill Hardman, president and CEO of Southeast Tourism Society, to a 2-year term on the 12-member National Park System Advisory Board.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Streeter Printing and Graphics in Augusta, Ga., has become a corporate sponsor of Southeast Tourism Society (STS), a 12-state regional travel promotion association supported by industry leaders including Days Inn, Amtrak, TripInfo.com and Southern Living Magazine.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Streeter Printing and Graphics in Augusta, Ga., has become a corporate sponsor of Southeast Tourism Society (STS), a 12-state regional travel promotion association supported by industry leaders including Days Inn, Amtrak, TripInfo.com and Southern Living Magazine.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Southeast Tourism Society, a travel promotion association covering 12 states, will promote the region at ITB Berlin, one of the largest consumer and business travel trade shows in the world.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Days Inn hotels in 12 southeastern states have banded together to sponsor Southeast Tourism Society (STS), a regional travel promotion association supported by industry leaders including Amtrak, TRIPinfo.com and Southern Living Magazine.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Southeast Tourism Society releases the top 20 events for April of 2008.
Friday, November 30, 2007
The Southeast Tourism Society has compiled a listing of Spring 2008's Top 20 events.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society members have a new way to place streaming video on their Web sites and other network Web sites through a partnership between STS and R2R Media, an Internet media company in Atlanta.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society has compiled 2008's winter Top 20 Events listings.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society honored the best and brightest in the tourism industry at its annual Shining Example Awards banquet.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Founded in 1983, Southeast Tourism Society (www.southeasttourism.org) is dedicated to the promotion and development of tourism to its member states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The membership includes state travel offices, attractions, hotels, motels, resorts, convention and visitors bureaus, airlines, car rental agencies, newspapers, magazines and other travel-related organizations. Here are their selections for the top 20 events in the Southeast each month during the last quarter of 2007.
Monday, July 30, 2007
A record 285 tourism industry professionals from across the United States are enrolled in the Southeast Tourism Society Marketing College this month. The STS Marketing College is a professional development program that for one week each summer turns the facilities of North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Ga., into a laboratory to teach tourism marketing.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society's newest corporate partner is nimbus Software. The company will provide a content management system to the STS consumer Web site, escapetothesoutheast.com; the work begins this summer.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Arkansas, where tourism is a $5.05 billion industry, is joining Southeast Tourism Society July 1. This expands the association to 12 states, according to STS President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Hardman.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
There is one-stop shopping for vacation information about the Gulf Coast regions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama at a new Web site: MySouthUSA.org.
Friday, May 11, 2007
The Southeast Tourism Society releases a top-20 events listing for the area's Summer 2007 season.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
City magazines from Augusta to Austin—and 16 points in between—are carrying the message that Gulf Coast destinations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are ready for tourists' visits. The Atlanta-based Southeast Tourism Society (STS) has begun a campaign to boost tourist volume in the region hit by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. It chose the markets and media based on research about traditional Gulf Coast visitors.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007 is the last day to submit nominations for events that take place in the 4th quarter (October, November, December) 2007 for Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 Events.
Friday, April 13, 2007
At the Southeast Tourism Society Spring Meeting, held March 19-21 in Biloxi, Mississippi, STS honored the largest class ever from the 15th Annual STS Marketing College. Marketing College, held each summer at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, Georgia, offers tourism professionals across the Southeast a broad-based curriculum in tourism marketing and management.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society (STS) is practicing what it preaches by bringing its spring convention to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. STS expects its March 19-21 meeting in Biloxi to attract approximately 250 delegates.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Tourism professionals from across the South are going to invest a little sweat equity into the revival of one of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's historic attractions. Southeast Tourism Society's (STS) board of directors as well as members have volunteered to help the Beauvoir House and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library in Biloxi relocate historical documents and other research materials in the continuing clean-up after Hurricane Katrina.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Southeast Tourism Society announces the attractions, festivals and events designated as the Top 20 Events for April, May and June 2007.
Friday, February 23, 2007
A special editorial section in the June issue of Southern Living Magazine will celebrate the tourism rebirth of Gulf Coast destinations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The section will parallel a multi-pronged campaign being organized by the Atlanta-based Southeast Tourism Society to boost tourism in areas hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The last day to submit nominations for 3rd quarter 2007 events (July, August, September) for Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 Events listing is Friday, February 9, 2007.
Friday, January 19, 2007
The president and CEO of the 11-state Southeast Tourism Society has been named to the executive committee of the nation's largest tourism trade association, the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA).
Friday, January 19, 2007
The last day to submit nominations for 2nd quarter 2007 (April, May, June) events for Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 is Friday, December 8, 2006. Nomination forms are available online.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Southeast Tourism Society has released a list of the top 20 events happening in the Southeast.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Southeast Tourism Society (STS) has retained communication and travel experts from across the Southeast to implement a marketing campaign to boost tourism in areas hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
More than one-fifth of the American Bus Association's "Top 100 Events in North America" for 2007 are concentrated in the Southeast.
Friday, October 6, 2006
For the 5th consecutive year, the Cucalorus Film Festival is among the Southeast Tourism Society (STS) Top 20 Events in the Southeast USA for October-November-December, 2006. The festival, now in its 12th year, celebrates the independent filmmaking spirit so prevalent in Historic Wilmington and North Carolina's Cape Fear Coast.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Southeast Tourism Society honored the best and brightest in the tourism industry at its annual Shining Example Awards banquet.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Thoughtful cooperation and the long-term health of travel destinations are the central topics of an event that will involve about 300 private sector tourism leaders and federal agency personnel just outside the nation's capital Sept. 6-8. The event is the Federal State Tourism Summit 2006 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Fifty-three tourism industry professionals completed the curriculum of the Southeast Tourism Society Marketing College this month and earned certification as Tourism Marketing Professionals (TMP).
Monday, August 21, 2006
The last day to submit nominations for 1st quarter 2007 (January, February, March) events for Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 is Friday, August 11, 2006.
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Southeast Tourism Society's Fall 2006 Top 20 Event listing is a comprehensive calendar of all the great events happening from October through Decemeber.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Due to the overwhelming demand, Southeast Tourism Society has extended the deadline for nominations for its Shining Example Awards to July 14.
Thursday, July 6, 2006
Reviving Gulf coast tourism over the next 18 months and planning a major tourism industry summit in September are the biggest issues at the summer board meeting of the Southeast Tourism Society (STS) June 23-24 in Orange Beach, Ala.
Monday, June 19, 2006
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration has awarded a $500,000 matching grant to Southeast Tourism Society (STS) to enhance tourism marketing of the Gulf Coast.
Friday, June 9, 2006
The Southeast Tourism Society presents its list of the top 20 events for summer 2006.
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Southeast Tourism Society's annual Marketing College will be held July 30 - August 4, 2006. This is the premier educational program for the tourism industry.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
The last day to submit nomination forms for the 4th quarter 2006 (October, November, December) for Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 Events designation is Friday, May 12, 2006.
Friday, May 5, 2006
The Southeast Tourism Society (STS), which has been encouraging individuals and organizations to support Gulf Coast hurricane relief in various fashions, has changed its meeting schedule in order to have a meeting in Biloxi, Miss., in 2007.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Hurricanes and the expanding scope of heritage and cultural tourism are key topics for the Southeast Tourism Society's spring meeting in Sarasota. The 11-state tourism promotion organization is based in Atlanta, and the Sarasota meeting is March 27-29.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
For the tenth year, the North Carolina Azalea Festival is among the Southeast Tourism Society (STS) Top 20 Events in the Southeast USA for April-June, 2006.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Southeast Tourism Society announces its Top 20 Events for the month of March. The best events across the Southeast compete to receive the prestigious Top 20 designation.
Monday, March 6, 2006
Topics ranging from the outlook of the 2006 hurricane season to the effect of storm forecasts on coastal tourism are on the agenda of the Southeast Tourism Society's Congressional Summit. Dates are March 6 - 7, 2006 in Washington, D.C.
Monday, February 27, 2006
The Southeast Tourism Society has selected the 14th Annual St. Augustine Lighthouse Festival as one of the top twenty events occurring in the region during March 2006.
Friday, February 24, 2006
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