By Nancy Gray
The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is joining hundreds of cities, states and businesses nationwide in the annual salute to travel and tourism in America. May 8-16 marks the twenty-seventh annual National Travel and Tourism Week. The cities of Conway and Myrtle Beach and town of Surfside Beach have issued declarations for [...]
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By Brad Dean
Summer is almost here and we all know what that means: millions of visitors will soon begin arriving in our community, anxious to enjoy a Grand Strand vacation. Restaurants will be busy, theaters will be packed, flights will be full and highways will be loaded with cars, RVs and other vehicles. In these [...]
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By Jennifer Prince
The travel community celebrated a major victory March 4 when President Obama signed into law the first-ever national travel promotion and communications program to attract more international travelers to the U.S. The historic moment, commemorated during a White House signing ceremony, is a major step in addressing America’s decline in attracting overseas visitors [...]
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Conspiracy theories can be very seductive.
Given a few strange clues and some seemingly random bits of information, it is easy to raise the suspicion of something sinister going on just beyond eyesight of normal men and women.
Star Chamber, Free Masons, Rosicrucians, Skull and Bones, the Catholic Church, CIA, Military-Industrial Complex, SMERSH, Environmentalists, and Communists; [...]
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By Jennifer Prince
The North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau has published their 2010 Visitors Guide.
This guide allows visitors to dive deeper into North Myrtle Beach during their visit. The 132-page edition includes visitor information, history and heritage, an area map, and a member directory. It also features an annual events calendar [...]
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The city of Myrtle Beach is going to take back the beach with a brand new oceanfront boardwalk and promenade. The groundbreaking – complete with plastic beach shovels and sandfilled beach pails – took place earlier this month and the project should be complete by next summer.
The $6.4 million project stretches over a mile between [...]
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By Nancy Gray
We love when all y’all come to visit, and this year is no different. Myrtle Beach area is rolling out the red carpet for its visitors to the North during the destination’s annual Canadian-American Days. This year, from March 14-22, the Myrtle Beach area will welcome Canadian and American visitors with a line-up [...]
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The launch of the newly designed VisitNC.com corresponds with the first VisitNC.com sweepstakes of the year, “Going Green In Greensboro,” which includes a weekend getaway for four to Greensboro, N.C., with accommodations at Proximity Hotel (www.proximityhotel.com). The Proximity, a AAA Four Diamond luxury hotel, is the most environmentally friendly hotel in America and graces the [...]
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