Tag: tourism
Inside Birmingham City Schools Nationally-Recognized Career Academies
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Loren Williams, a senior in the Ramsay High School Engineering Academy, this semester completed an internship with the Alabama Department...
Javacia Harris Bowser: A Tourist in My Own Town
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
Leading up to The World Games 2022 (TWG 2022) in Birmingham, Alabama I felt anxious.
“I’m nervous about The...
Inside the Newly Opened Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau Center
inbirmingham.com
The Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau this week opened a new visitors center at the heart of Birmingham’s new CityWalk.
The center has a...
Tourists Spent Estimated $2.2 Billion in Jefferson County (AL) Last Year:...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Visitors spent an estimated $2.2 billion in Jefferson County (AL) in 2021, a 45 percent increase over the previous year’s...
Former Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Leader Inducted into Alabama Tourism Hall...
(photo credit:Cody Eason)
MOBILE – Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux, Jr. of Birmingham was inducted into the Alabama Tourism Hall of Fame at the Alabama Governor’s...
Ruby Falls wins three awards at Tennessee Hospitality & Tourism Association...
credit: Meagan Jolley
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. On Monday evening, August 3rd, leaders from the Tennessee Hospitality and Tourism Association (TnHTA) announced Ruby Falls as the award...