For the health and safety of employees and visitors, the Route 66 Springfield Information Center, 815 E. St. Louis St., will be closed until further notice beginning Thanksgiving Day. The closure is due to increases in coronavirus cases throughout the nation. The Convention & Visitors Bureau offices that are in the same building as the
Superheroes are on the job when it comes to keeping people healthy in Springfield, Missouri, during the current pandemic. The Masked Mandate and the Fabulous 6-Foot Woman star in a video created for the Convention & Visitors Bureau by Jeff Houghton, a local comedian and host of “The Mystery Hour,” a nationally broadcast, late-night talk
The CVB’s fall marketing campaign, “Give Yourself a Weekend,” ends Nov. 15. Advertising targeting leisure travelers is running digitally across all of Missouri, parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Television spots are running in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, northwest Arkansas, Tulsa, and Wichita as well as streaming placements in those markets. Billboards are up
Many thanks to Jeff Houghton and team at “The Mystery Hour” for producing this video about the city’s masking ordinance for us. It’s a serious message shared in a funny way! The Masked Mandate Springfield MO Final from Chris Canote on Vimeo.
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has developed pandemic toolkits for businesses and for families for the Thanksgiving holiday. They include information about how to help prevent the spread of the virus, frequently asked questions, printable posters, what to do if you’ve been exposed to the virus, etc. We encourage our partners to review the information
The staff at the Convention & Visitors Bureau is in the early stages of planning the 2021 Salute to Travel & Tourism and we need your input. Please take a moment to answer a short survey that will help guide us as we move forward. Thank you! Loading…
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The Travel & Tourism Research Assoc. is accepting nominations for its awards program recognizing marketers using research to make decisions and for researchers who have gone above and beyond. In addition to national recognition, award recipients receive a plaque, a one-year Premier TTRA membership (if they are not currently a member), and a $250 gift
U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), co-chairs of the Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus, introduced legislation Oct. 22 that will help improve tourism across the country by studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the travel and tourism industry and identifying policy recommendations to assist the hard-hit industry. The Protecting Tourism
Small businesses looking to strengthen their digital presence now have access to free services, courtesy of the Downtown Springfield Association. The DSA is one of 13 area organizations awarded a Greene County CARES Act grant in early September. A portion of that grant money is funding a Small Business Digital Consulting program. Participants in the