Mark Calitri speaks tourism: Tourism for Owensboro and Daviess County Kentucky continues to thrive and create a powerful economic engine. Kentucky Tourism Industry Association President Hank Phillips says, “Kentucky is riding a tourism wave that promises to grow, adding to its already impressive contributions to the state’s economy.” Tourism-related businesses and convention bureaus across the…
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Mark Calitri speaks tourism: The 2A State Championships held in Owensboro created a huge economic impact and created memories for a lifetime.
https://youtu.be/hGCijOe1XWoMark Calitri said, “the 2A State Championships created memories for a lifetime! These student athletes had the great honor to earn their way to this great championship event held in Owensboro Kentucky. They also got to experience wonderful Owensboro restaurants and shopping.”Check out this video that highlights the 2A State Championship cheer team from…
Mark Calitri Speaks Tourism
Last year was an exciting year in Owensboro and Daviess County, Kentucky. Here is a cool video of the highlights coming in 2019. A combination of sports and conventions will create a tremendous economic impact for our community, “said Mark A. Calitri, President/CEO of Visit Owensboro. Some of Owensboro’s key sports groups are: The 2A…
Mark Calitri speaks tourism: Kentucky Tourism Industry Association President Hank Phillips talks Owensboro Kentucky
This fall Owensboro Kentucky was honored to host the Kentucky Tourism Industry Association Conference. KTIA president Hank Phillips described his experience in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e58bDvDV28 Mr. Phillips says Owensboro impresses visitors and they were stunned, in a positive way by what they saw. Visit Owensboro earned three statewide awards for excellence. Mr. Phillips said, “Out…
KTIA conference returns for first time since 2007
The Kentucky Travel Industry Association will bring its annual conference to Owensboro Tuesday through Thursday for the first time since 2007, when the Executive Inn Rivermont was still in business. “The largest attendance KTIA has produced is around 375 in Louisville in 2017,” Mark Calitri, president and CEO of the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors…
CVB, Convention Center win awards
ConventionSouth, a national resource for event planning, has named the Owensboro Convention Center and the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau as winners of its 2018 Readers’ Choice Award. “The value in receiving this prestigious recognition is that it comes from the United States’ top meeting professionals who hold events in the South,” Publisher J.…
Owensboro will soon profit from Airbnb transient room tax
Owensboro’s evolving economy and development has put more focus on the local tourism industry. To accommodate the growing numbers of tourists, residents and businesses have begun hosting their properties as Airbnb locations within the city and county, allowing out-of-towners to rent the properties for various reasons, events and timeframes. Airbnb agreed last year to pay…
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Visit Owensboro is leading the charge for new sports development
“Owensboro Kentucky has been given a look into the crystal ball and the future begins today,” said Mark Calitri, President/CEO of Visit Owensboro. In 2018, the Owensboro Daviess County Convention and Visitors Bureau released a study it had commissioned on the community need for sports facilities. Pinnacle Sports of Louisville recommended that the infields of…
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O.Z. Tyler: Visitor numbers growing
Owensboro Distillery joined Kentucky Bourbon Trail in June On June 4, Owensboro’s O.Z. Tyler Distillery became the 11th distillery on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Last year, nearly 1.2 million people visited the 10 distilleries on the trail and the 13 on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour. Of that, 940,780 visited the 10 distilleries on…
Daviess County wins KTIA Economic Engine Award
Hank Phillips, president and CEO of the Kentucky Travel Industry Association, was in town Thursday to present the KTIA’s Economic Engine Award to Daviess County. “We’re presenting these to several counties where tourism is a prime driver of the local economy,” he said before making the presentation at the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce’s Rooster…