Thursday, November 5, 2015

From Jennifer Sorentrue: Three organizations up for Palm Beach County's "top tourism prize": The Providencia Award 2015

Here are the three:
Here is an excerpt from the article that also appeared in the Post's print edition yesterday (11/4):
Discover The Palm Beaches, the county’s official tourism marketing organization, is set to unveil its plan to representatives of the local tourism and hospitality industry. About 200 people are expected to attend the annual presentation, which will be held at the Harriet Himmel Theatre in West Palm Beach.
     Roughly 6.3 million travelers visited Palm Beach County in 2014, and industry officials have said the county is on pace to beat that record this year.
     For the first eight months of the year, the countywide hotel occupancy rate was 75.4 percent — a number that has risen slightly, even as the county’s inventory of hotel rooms has grown. [emphasis added]
Discover the Palm Beaches recently produced a new video you can watch here. There's a little city in central Palm Beach County that doesn't have an abundance of hotel rooms but it does have a spectacular BEACH!. Stop by and visit some time: