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I would like to welcome you to the Louisville Convention&Visitors Bureau business site. I encourage you to visit the site often and use it as your on-line resource for the latest trends, statistics and most recent happenings in the hospitality arena. Not only will the information encompass local tidbits, but regional, national and even international travel trends will be shared as well. The site will be updated on a regular basis, so make it a point to check back often. Information is integral to success. Your success is our success. I welcome your comments and/or suggestions, and look forward to our continued dialogue.

Sincerely, Jim

Tourism Trends | Blog

Travel Promotion Act

On March 4, 2010 President Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act which was championed into legislation by Roger Dow, President of the U.S. Travel Association. This piece of legislation was a long time in coming as it now forms an agency to market America as a tour and travel destination worldwide.

Good news for Kentucky and the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

Finally..The decline in international tourism has started to bottom out and lodging demand should start to recover next year, according to two new and separate studies.

International tourist arrivals declined by seven percent between January and August of this year, but the rate of decline has eased in the past few months, says the UNWTO World Business Barometer. The group expects "moderate" growth next year. In a nutshell the negative outlook for travel overseas is beginning to lift.