The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce & CVB wants to hear from residents in Horry and Georgetown counties! Our resident survey is now open for you to share your opinions.
Join us for this Special Thank You Event celebrating the Carolina Forest Wildfire 1st Responders on April 14, 2025 at Pelicans Stadium.
Fans can follow the PGA TOUR on the new PGA TOUR app and PGATOUR.COM, and on social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram (in Spanish, Korean and Japanese), LinkedIn, TikTok, X (in English and Spanish), WhatsApp (in English and Spanish), WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao, Douyin and LINE.
Visit Myrtle Beach is proud to announce its recognition as one of nine travel organizations and one of only two U.S.-based destination marketing organizations to receive a 2024 Travel Vanguard Award from Afar magazine, an international authority in inspiring and empowering conscientious travelers.
The PGA TOUR has recognized the Myrtle Beach Classic with the “Best-In-Class Element” award for its innovative and groundbreaking feature, The Q at Myrtle Beach. This accolade places the inaugural Classic among the standout events of the TOUR’s 2024 season, recognizing its exceptional creativity, audience engagement and impact on the game.
With this year’s holiday season on the horizon, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is celebrating the magic of winter with unique shopping experiences, must-see attractions and a fun line-up of holiday events. As fall comes to a close, visitors can continue to take advantage of smaller crowds, mild temperatures and a variety of family-friendly experiences found nowhere else in the region.
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We’re putting the final touches on the holiday leisure campaign which will be primarily digital advertising and public relations targeted towards regional and out of state markets. Creative features spectacular holiday events, live shows, great shopping, holiday special offers and 60 miles of beaches. New for this year is a special Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion. CVB partners have been submitting great offers of up to 55% off and we’ll be spreading the word. Here are a few of the creative campaign elements.
Each month we round up some of the latest stories about Myrtle Beach as a destination. The following are several of the major media clips in the month of October 2019 which focused on the destination’s appeal as a whole, golf in the area, entertainment options for groups and meetings, and travel to Myrtle Beach in the fall.
Once again, the early fall tourist season along South Carolina’s Grand Strand, the coastal sections of Horry and Georgetown counties, was marred by at least one hurricane warning and evacuation. The average occupancy percentages (APO), as reported by Coastal Carolina University’s Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism, for hotels, condo-hotels, and campsites (HC-HCs) units rented nightly, and the estimated APO based on the percentage of units reserved for the vacation rental properties (VRPs) rented weekly, are shown in the table below.
The Governor’s South Carolina Floodwater Commission in cooperation with Horry County, the City of Conway, and the City of Loris will be sponsoring a cleanup day in Horry County on Friday, November 8, 2019. The cleanup activities include both land and waterways (boat) and will be coordinated from 4 regional work sites within the county.
Myrtle Beach has a new listing on the National Register of Historic Places! The Downtown Historic District was officially certified on Friday, October 18. It includes portions of Main Street, Eighth Avenue North, Ninth Avenue North, North Kings Highway, Broadway Street and North Oak Street. The description states:
On Saturday, October 26, Visit Myrtle Beach, in partnership with Tin Roof Myrtle Beach and Cocktail Artist®, a line of premium mixes and bar ingredients, will host an exciting night of bartending challenges.
Myrtle Beach bartenders will compete in a bartending challenge where each contestant will be paired up with one of Cocktail Artists’ award-winning mixologists as they compete for a grand prize. Also that night, Cocktail Artist will crown their National Champion in the brand’s 1st Annual Mix Off Competition.
In the school start date debate, many have tried to pit the tourism industry and the coast against teachers, parents and students. The fact is that South Carolina parents simply do not want to see the school start-date moved sooner into August. A statewide poll found that nearly 75 percent of parents support the current school start-date (third Monday in August) or would even like to see it moved back later into August or September like many other states.
Destination Welcomes Visitors with its Warm Temperatures, Beautiful Beaches and an Exciting Lineup of Events. With the autumn season underway, the oceanfront oasis of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is ready to embrace its visitors with an impressive variety of events. Along with its beautiful coastline and sandy beaches, Myrtle Beach boasts summer-like temperatures, affordable lodging options and an abundance of activities during the fall, including autumn festivals and haunted happenings to celebrate the season.
