Hotel rooms remain for those seeking last-minute accommodations for Super Bowl weekend. Both Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater and Tampa Bay & Co., the Pinellas and Hillsborough county visitors bureaus, reported accommodations were available for this weekend as of Tuesday afternoon. ...more

January 27, 2009

Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater, which markets tourism for Pinellas County, is hedging its bets for hits among prospective Super Bowl visitors on Google's search engine. ...more

January 15, 2009

Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater, which markets tourism for Pinellas County, is hedging its bets for hits among prospective Super Bowl visitors on Google's search engine. ...more

January 14, 2009

The city's meetings and conventions business will get a boost in August with a commitment from the Women of Faith group to bring its Grand New Day Conference Tour to the St. Pete Times Forum. The conference will draw about 15,000 attendees, according to a release by Tampa Bay & Co., which markets the visitors industry for Hillsborough County. ...more

January 2, 2009

For the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee, the consideration of future Women's Final Four sites often requires a steady stream of visits to arenas, hotels and restaurants. Sometimes, it's difficult for cities to make a distinguishing mark. But for the Tampa Bay area, which was just awarded the 2015 Women's Final Four on the heels of its successful performance last spring, an attention-grabbing approach has become standard procedure. ...more

November 21, 2008

Members of the Pinellas and Hillsborough County visitors bureaus are headed to South America today for a joint sales mission in a collaborative step that proponents of more cooperative efforts are likely to applaud. ...more

October 15, 2008

Tampa Bay & Co., which promotes the visitors and convention business for Hillsborough County, hired a former visitors bureau and hotel executive in Arkansas and Missouri to fill the position of national sales manager for religious and multicultural markets. Sherri Brown, who worked for the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and was sales executive for the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotel, the Adam's Mark Hotel and the Roberts Mayfair Wyndham Hotel in St. Louis, joins the 50-plus person Tampa Bay & Co. staff. ...more

October 14, 2008

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, widely considered one of Tampa Bay's premier visitor attractions, has had roots in Tampa for nearly 50 years, but those roots are being upended a bit as the ownership of the park comes into question with the purchase of its parent, beer giant Anheuser-Busch Cos. ...more

July 18, 2008

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, widely considered one of Tampa Bay's premier visitor attractions, has had roots in Tampa for nearly 50 years, but those roots are being upended a bit as the ownership of the park comes into question with the purchase of its parent, beer giant Anheuser-Busch Cos. ...more

July 15, 2008

"Staycation." It's become the summer buzzword reflecting vacationers' inclination to stay close to home as gas prices soar and the economy sags. ...more

July 4, 2008