2023 BCTDA Annual Meeting Join us on September 19 for our 2023 Annual Meeting at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts from 3 to 6 pm. Explore Asheville cordially invites our travel and hospitality partners to celebrate 40 years of investing in and building Asheville's deeply rooted and ever evolving history. Keynote speaker Richard […]

Explore Asheville will host HospitableMe’s signature LGBTQ+ diverse audience training program, “Everyone Welcome,” at an event open to tourism partners.

The Hospitality Outlook, designed to provide business insights for tourism industry partners, was held at the Diana Wortham Theatre on Friday, February 24, 2017. Chad Church of Smith Travel Research presented the annual lodging performance report for 2016, and a forecast for 2017. Chris Cavanaugh, president of Magellan Strategy Group, presented an overview of tourism […]

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square, Asheville The short-term online rental marketplace represents a billion dollar industry and is rapidly growing. Airbnb, for example, lists 400 properties in Raleigh, 390 in Charlotte and over 780 in the Asheville area. While this innovative, new business model, which […]