State Young Professionals will meet in Owensboro

Owensboro’s Chamber Young Professionals will host the state’s seventh annual YP Unite Summit in November. “We don’t know the details yet, but it’s great they selected Owensboro,” Dave Kirk, former CYP chairman, said Friday. “It’s such an awesome opportunity to show off what we’ve got going and why we were named a top city millennials…

CVB newsletter to help businesses, attractions

The Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau is launching a free monthly email newsletter, starting Friday, March 1, to tell people what major events are coming to town. Dave Kirk, the CVB’s destination management director, said it will be especially helpful for restaurants to know when a large number of visitors will be at events…

Mark Calitri speaks tourism: Visit Owensboro is courting bus tour operators across the United States

http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/local/cvb-is-courting-bus-tour-operators/article_f0a6610e-6413-5486-bc4a-a5c829b81785.htmlMark Calitri, CVB president, said the idea is to “introduce them to Owensboro and put our community on their road map. These tour operators, if impressed, will book future bus group trips to visit Owensboro.”He said, “Bus groups continue to be a profitable segment of business for most cities across the country.”The success of the…

Kirk named 2018 KTIA emerging leader

Dave Kirk, destination management director for the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, was named 2018 Emerging Leader by the Kentucky Travel Industry Association at its conference Wednesday at the Owensboro Convention Center. Kirk, public information officer for Owensboro Public Schools from 2012 through 2017, began his new job in January. He has been in…

CVB expecting international tourism soon

British Airways will launch daily flights from London to Nashville starting March 31. And that’s good news for Owensboro. “That will be great for us with tour operators since we’re so close to Nashville,” Dave Kirk, destination management director, for the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau. The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum…

Owensboro in the News

Brooklyn crew shooting bluegrass video here The Wooks, a five-piece “rhythm and bluegrass” band from Lexington, was standing between two rows of peach trees in Reid’s Orchard on Wednesday morning, playing The Romantics’ 1980 pop hit “What I Like About You” over and over. A film crew from The Mustache Agency in Brooklyn, N.Y., moved…

Business Insider names city a ‘best place’ to visit

Another national publication has named Owensboro as a place people should visit. Business Insider, an international online publication, has listed the Owensboro-Bowling Green-Paducah triangle as one of “17 of the best places in the U.S. to visit in the fall.” The article says, “You might not think of heading south in the fall, but you…

CVB getting Owensboro attention from state

The Owensboro-Daviess County Convention and Visitors Bureau has taken over the Kentucky Tourism’s Facebook page and Instagram this week. A posting Sunday on the state agency’s Facebook page says, “Takeover Alert! Starting tomorrow, our friends at Visit Owensboro are taking over our Facebook and Instagram for the week! Follow along for an inside look at…

Australian publication touts Owensboro

An Australian newspaper supplement has named Owensboro as one of the places Aussies should visit on a trip to America. The article — “The New USA Bucket List: 11 Top Places You Need to See” — lists Kentucky as one of those places. And under that heading, it says, “By now you will have built…

Owensboro, Kentucky, steps up with $15M bluegrass museum and more

“Our riverfront is incredible,” Calitri said. “In the summertime, every Friday we have what is called ‘Friday After Five’ on the riverfront, and it blows your mind how many people come to this free event. And, we just opened a new bourbon distillery, which is now on the official Bourbon Trail, which is visited by…