ATLANTA, Sept. 21 2017 – The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s (GDEcD) Tourism division announced today that it has awarded more than $111,624 in product development resource team grants to 14 new and expanding tourism projects across the state...
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New dates: Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2017, on Jekyll Island
Thursday, Sept. 7 - Hurricane Irma continues to be an extremely dangerous category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. The projected path includes the Florida, Georgia and South Carolina coast.
Our first priority is the safety and well...
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New tour puts visitors in the scenes from popular film and television shows
Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2017 – Georgia Tourism, a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, announced today the launch of its new program, Georgia Film Selfie Spot Tour. The self-guided tour aims to highlight Georgia's rapidly growing film tourism...
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Attached is the calendar year Q2 report for the Year of Georgia Film campaign on social media. Some highlights from the report:
YOGF content reached more than 1.1 million people from April to June 2017.
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Georgia-filmed productions represent $2.7 billion in direct spending in FY 2017
July 10, 2017, Atlanta - Gov. Nathan Deal today announced that Georgia-lensed feature film and television productions generated an economic impact of $9.5 billion during FY 2017. The 320 feature film and television productions shot in Georgia represent $2...
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Explore Georgia's social media agency, redpepper, has been working with Katie Christof and Parker Whidby on the Year of Georgia Film social media strategy this calendar year. The agency recently took a look at the results of our social media efforts in January...
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Tourism industry celebrates $61.1 billion in impact during National Travel and Tourism Week
ATLANTA, May 9, 2017 – The Georgia Department of Economic Development announced today that the state's tourism industry generated a record-breaking $61.1 billion in business sales including direct, indirect and induced impact in 2016, up 3.5 percent, according...
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On March 2, 2017, Explore Georgia celebrated reaching 100,000 followers on Instagram! The achievement puts Explore Georgia among the top 10 state tourism accounts in the U.S. in terms of number of Instagram followers. To mark the occasion, this picture was...
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