NEWS

Visit Savannah and Visit Tybee representatives Joe Marinelli, Jeff Hewitt, Jeremy Harvey and Sara Lane attended the Georgia Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus’ (GACVB) Winter Conference in Valdosta, Ga., this week. While there, Visit Savannah, the Savannah Sports Council and Visit Tybee cumulatively won four awards in the GACVB Best Ideas Competition.
Visit Savannah won awards in the tourism promotion category for its 2014 holiday campaign and the cooperative marketing campaign category for its three-month campaign partnering with the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport; the Savannah Sports Council won an award in the sports marketing category for its marketing efforts surrounding the Publix Savannah Women’s Half Marathon launch; and Visit Tybee won an award in the category for tourism promotion for its #TybeeLife summer photo contest.