Governor presents tourism industry awards
Atlanta, Nov. 2, 2017 - Gov. Nathan Deal today recognized several of the state's top tourism professionals at the 2017 Georgia Governor's Tourism Conference on Jekyll Island. The annual industry event, hosted by the Georgia Department of Economic Development...
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Tune in to FOX Sports Southeast and Destination America for the new TV series "The Excursion" featuring David Zelski, formerly with GPB's "Georgia Traveler." In the first season of the nationally syndicated show, David treks across Georgia for a set of timed...
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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 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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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, worked with Katie Christof and Parker Whidby on the Year of Georgia Film social media strategy in 2017. The agency created the attached reports, by quarter, to show how that strategy performed.
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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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