Tourism

From left to right, executives proudly stand in front of the new brand. Brian Graham, CEO Augusta Sports Council, Hardie Davis, Jr, Augusta Mayor, Brandon Haddock, Board Chairman Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau and Bennish Brown, CEO Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau (Photo by Neil Gordon) The big reveal took place Thursday afternoon May 6th in downtown Augusta that further tied together the Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau and The Augusta Sports Council together. Money raised through the ACVB’s efforts to increase the hotel\motel tax in the CSRA helps to partially

Business is starting to come back at the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center (photo courtesy Marriott.com) Local hotels are seeing a rebound and steady increase in business over last year. That’s been the case for the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center in downtown Augusta, according to Darryl Leech, the hotel’s vice president and general manager. “We have seen a nice uptick in transient business and conventions are starting to rebook,” says Leech. Leech doesn’t disclose occupancy rates for competitive reasons, but that transient business for Augusta area hotels

What does a travel advisor in Evans, Georgia, do when people are not going on vacation? The global pandemic of 2020 really took its toll. Agents spent most of the year canceling all of the amazing vacations that we planned for people in 2019. It was heartbreaking, brutal, exhausting, and devastating. We truly put our heart and soul into planning each vacation for our clients, and to have to undo all of that was hard. Very hard. Our Vacations To Remember team worked 16 hour days for most of March,