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Gretchen Hall, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (Kyle Massey)
Gretchen Hall, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, will serve as board chair of Destinations International, effective July 1.
Destinations International is a professional advocacy group representing about 600 member organizations including almost 6,000 destination professionals from around the globe. She chair the group for one year.
Hall has worked for the LRCVB since 2001 and has served as president and CEO since 2011.
At Destinations International, she will focus on research and tools to help its membership recover from the pandemic, according to a news release.
Send Sales tax or no, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. is ready to rebrand the city with a new marketing campaign, a new city flag and a new website.
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War Memorial Stadium (Angelo Felix)
The National Junior College Athletic Association is bringing its football championship games to Little Rock s War Memorial Stadium for the next three years, state and city tourism officials announced Friday.
This contract amounts to four games because the association altered its schedule for this year’s season because of the pandemic. The first game at War Memorial is set for June 5. The others will be played this December then in December 2022 and 2023.
Gretchen Hall, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, said it partnered with the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism to beat out 12 other sites for this contract.
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Ottenheimer Hall, the Little Rock River Market’s public food court-style market, located at 400 President Clinton Ave., has been shuttered for over a year. This Saturday, May 1, Ottenheimer Hall is welcoming back vendors and the public, coinciding with the reopening of the
Little Rock Farmers Market held in the adjacent River Market pavilions.
The River Market district has been relatively behind other businesses that have remained open or reopened during the pandemic. Diana Long, director of River Market Operations, said in an interview in January that the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau was assessing the “multifaceted” situation about reopening monthly. Due to pandemic-related closures, cancellations of events, lack of tourism and downtown workers working remotely, the Little Rock Convention & Visitors bureau took an economic hit. Long said that they were waiting for people to return to working in offices downtown, for convention businesses