ESPN is adding an early-season college basketball event to its roster this year with the Myrtle Beach Invitational. The new event will take place Nov. 15, 16 and 18, 2018, at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina University.
May 2018 Grand Strander and Insider
Tourism Works for Us In Myrtle Beach. Know Who Else Is Happy?
Myrtle Beach Celebrates Global Meetings Industry Day
The Importance of Growing Air Service
Have you ever wondered why we focus on growing air service to and from the Myrtle Beach area?In this episode of Talking Tourism, we chat with Scott Van Moppes and Kirk Lovell from Horry County Airports and Bob Barenberg from Kingston Resorts about air service, how it’s grown and why it’s important to Myrtle Beach.
The Rise and Fall of Tourism: A Cautionary Tale of Consequence
Learn more about the importance of tourism promotion. Read “The Rise and Fall of Colorado Tourism” – a cautionary tale of what happens when tourism marketing budgets are eliminated. In the case of Colorado “domestic market share plunged 30% within two years, representing a loss of over $1.4 billion in tourism revenue annually. Over time, the revenue loss increased to well over $2 billion yearly.
Tourist Tax Dollars At Work
Did you ever wonder how our tourism tax dollars are spent? The Myrtle Beach area is one of the nation’s busiest tourist destinations with over 18 million visitors coming to the Grand Strand in 2016. Those tourists stay in our hotels and beach houses, eat at our restaurants, shop in our stores, and spend money at golf courses, attractions and more. Every purchase our tourists make are taxed. In fact, in 2016, tourists paid almost $323 million in taxes. Did you ever wonder how those taxes are spent? Watch the video to learn more.
Things Keep Looking Up for MYR
With so much exciting news at the Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR), Kirk Lovell shared a summary of the growth over the last few years. In 2013, Horry County Department of Airports (HCDA) developed and executed the Grand Strand’s air service development strategy. Since implementation momentum has been building.
