Planners seeking VIP access to a destination should look no further than its convention and visitors bureau (CVB).
These destination experts have all the most current details of an area’s attractions and vendors, which means they can assist at every level of planning an event by providing a friendly, helpful link to the tools planners need to succeed. This can be especially true when planning an event in an unfamiliar city, but even a planner’s local CVB can be an invaluable resource.
There’s been a lot of noise about Greenville, South Carolina over the past few years. The New York Times (NYT) ranked the quaint city, set in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, as 14th on list of 52 places around the world to visit in 2023. Food & Wine calls it one of “America’s Next Great Food Cities” proclaiming that this once sleepy mill town “hums with culinary energy…menus are inventive and constantly evolving.” Sid Evans, the editor in chief of Southern Living (which named it the South’s Best City on the Rise in 2022), has proclaimed, “The food here is adventurous, and the chefs have embraced the global influences shaping the modern South.”